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Analysis on market, regulation and capital

Market notes on Brazilian M&A, prepared for company and financial-market executives evaluating Brazil for investment, partnership or acquisition.

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Brazil’s Great Ownership Transition: What Happens When Founders Retire?

Brazil is aging fast - and a generation of founder-led companies is approaching business succession decisions. This is quietly becoming one of the most important structural trends in Brazilian M&A.

Market

The Revenue Benchmark for SaaS Exits in Brazil

Buyer competition for Brazilian SaaS is not flat across revenue. It follows something closer to a bell curve: thin at the low end, rising as a company scales into a sweet spot where more buyers compete, and thinning again at the far tail, where the cheque grows larger than most acquirers can write.

Sector · Software & SaaS

Charging Infrastructure and Brazil’s EV Transition

EV adoption is accelerating faster than expected, but the charging network still lags. With nearly 17,000 public chargers and 18 vehicles per point, this gap is becoming the leading M&A opportunity in Brazilian mobility.

Sector · Mobility

Energy Transition M&A in Brazil: From Renewables to Grid and Storage

With 84.6% of installed capacity already renewable, the M&A opportunity is moving beyond generation into grid, storage and enabling infrastructure. Transmission and utility-scale storage are emerging as the core of the next investment phase.

Sector · Energy

Vertical Integration in Healthcare: What Hospital-Insurer Deals Mean for Competition and Deal Execution

By late May 2026, vertical integration in Brazilian healthcare is unmistakably an antitrust and execution-risk story. The Unimed Blumenau / Hospital Santa Catarina case at CADE changes how vertical deals must be underwritten from the outset.

Sector · Healthcare

How Regulation Is Reshaping Acquisition Criteria in Brazilian Fintech

The regulatory perimeter around BaaS, VASPs and minimum capital has expanded materially in 2025–2026. Scale, capital resilience and regulatory readiness have become central quality attributes in acquisitions - no longer secondary diligence items.

Regulation · Fintech

The New M&A Map for Payments and Banking in Brazil

Pix and Open Finance did more than improve user experience - they changed where value accumulates in the system. With 128 million active Open Finance consents in 2025, the most attractive acquisition targets are the layers that orchestrate and monetize shared infrastructure.

Sector · Fintech

Why Brazil’s Data Center Build-Out Became an M&A and Private Capital Opportunity

Brazil accounts for over 40% of Latin America’s data-center investment, with R$ 258 bn projected for 2024–2027. When tax policy, power access and execution bottlenecks determine who delivers capacity, the sector becomes a strategic private-capital theme - not just technology.

Sector · Technology

AI Is Changing Brazilian M&A in Two Ways: Software Targets and AI Infrastructure

AI is entering Brazilian M&A through two channels: enterprise software with AI components that deepen defensibility, and infrastructure assets that support growing demand for compute and digital capacity. These are distinct theses that belong to the same strategic conversation.

Sector · Technology

Cross-Border M&A into Brazil: Where Foreign Buyers Still See Asymmetrical Value

The U.S. led foreign acquisitions into Brazil in 2025 - not through indiscriminate optimism but through asymmetry. Foreign buyers are paying for scarcity within Brazil: scale, regulatory depth and strategic positions that are unusually hard to replicate elsewhere in the region.

Market

How Valuation Gaps Are Being Bridged in Brazil

With the Selic at 15.00%, sellers and buyers start from different places. The market is responding with earn-outs, vendor financing and deferred consideration - not as workarounds, but as mechanisms that allocate uncertainty over time more intelligently.

Market

Brazil M&A in 2026: A Market Reopening, but on More Disciplined Terms

Brazil recorded 1,877 transactions and R$ 313.5 bn in mobilized capital in 2025. The market is reopening - not with 2021 exuberance, but with selectivity. Assets with strategic scarcity, credible governance and a clear buyer universe continue to move forward.

Market

Cost of Capital as the New Gatekeeper of Brazilian M&A

With the Selic at 15.00%, cost of capital is not a background condition for Brazilian M&A - it is the main filter through which transaction viability is determined. Expensive leverage, compressed multiples and higher return thresholds are separating financeable assets from the rest.

Market