The expectation of the Brazilian capital market is that corporate transactions will reach greater momentum in 2024, after declines in business volumes observed in the last two years.
According to data from PwC, the number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Brazil fell 17.3% in 2023, totaling 1,287 announcements, 45% of which were concentrated in the TMT segment. Despite the drop, this is a volume considered historically significant for the country, which in 2020 renewed the local record with 1,038 transactions. In 2021, Brazil reached the highest historical volume of M&A, with 1,659 deals announced.
There are still some important challenges to improve the economic scenario in Brazil, mainly due to political and fiscal issues, in addition to a domestic credit market with still restricted supply, but the country has Inflation expectations that are apparently better anchored and has already recorded successive falls in the country’s basic interest rate (SELIC) at the latest meetings of the Central Bank of Brazil.
After turbulent presidential elections at the end of 2022, the M&A market in Brazil began 2023 on hold, evaluating the impacts of the new government’s initial measures, and only began to observe a more vigorous increase in M&A activity in the third quarter, when 405 deals were complete, an increase of 9.46% compared to the same period in 2022, as reported by KPMG.
The prospects for this year promise to begin to awaken the appetite of international investors for selected opportunities in the 9th largest economy in the world.
Post by Daniel Rivera, ELIT CAPITAL