The Latin America region's largest and most diversified market has long been plagued by poor political and economic administrations. It took the Collor government, which ironically suffered impeachment, to successfully implement efficient and effective mechanisms through which to administrate both the country's central bank and its economic planning functions. Besides a relatively successful privatization program, during the mid to late 1990s, significant additional flows of foreign capital, of both a strategic and financial nature, provided the country with the financial and technological resources necessary to achieve impressive and complex levels of economic diversity and sophistication present today. The multi-faceted industrial base which now exists has surpassed the previous dominance of the agricultural pillar in the economy. A friendly, market driven economy with relatively simple cultural nuances plays host to the highest level of direct foreign investment in the region. Additionally, the country's ever growing presence in the world of international commerce, coupled with its most competitive domestic production cost structure, has made Brazil a compelling market to establish operations with goods and services directed at both the national and international markets.
Fredericks Michael has worked closely with foreign strategic and financial groups to identify and capitalize upon opportunities in the complex Brazilian market. Our firm has also developed close relationships with a variety of Brazilian companies, across a broad cross section of industries, aiming to either expand their presence at home or across borders or, alternatively, divest non core holdings. Both our industry specific and cultural familiarity with Brazil provide the capability to work closely with this clientele in successfully attaining their objectives.
