History
Latin Pacific Capital (LPC) was founded in 4Q 1995 as Fleming Latin Pacific, a joint venture between Robert Fleming & Co, the last of the British independent Investment Banking Groups, and Pacific Securities Inc., a company owned and managed by professionals who had worked on the turnaround of the Peruvian economy in the first half of the 1990s.
Operations consistently produced results, and important mandates were carried out in the early years including the privatization of EPSA (the electricity company serving over two million people in Cali and the Cauca valley in Colombia) sold to a Private consortium led by Houston Industries at a time during which Colombia had been de-certified by the USA Government; also including the secondary placement of an important block of shares of BBVA Banco Continental in year 1998, a ground breaking international placement, the first carried out after the financial crises of years 1996 through 1998 in the world. Lastly, advisor for the Mantaro-Socabaya 700 Km Transmission Line, the first concession awarded in 1999 under the new Concessions Law, a project which joined the two existing separate power transmission systems, giving rise to a countrywide integrated Peruvian electricity grid—the SIN. By the close of 1999 we had completed eighteen mandates, of which the above three were unique.
In year 2000 the Flemings group was acquired by the Chase Bank, and less than a year later Fleming Latin Pacific became independent and changed its name to Latin Pacific Capital. During that year we completed work on the concession of the three modules of the Camisea Natural Gas mega Project, which changed the energy matrix in the country. Since year 2000 we have completed one hundred sixteen advisories of which fifty one included important transactions. To date LPC has completed one hundred thirty four advisories; of these, seventy four involve projects with major investments, which have been carried out in six countries in Latin America, in Electric Power, Mining, Oil & Gas, Telecoms, Infrastructure, Industry, Agribusiness, Banking and Insurance, with an aggregate investment of over US$ 14 billion.
Mission
The success of our clients is our raison d’être.
We strive to clearly understand our client’s objectives in their multiple dimensions, as the cornerstone for our work
Our mission is to achieve the maximum value for our clients in each transaction, while preserving the environment
Towards this end, our top executives are directly and deeply involved in the execution of each project, within a framework of excellence and professional integrity as well as efficiency and high ethical standards
What makes us unique
Latin Pacific Capital is client centered and results oriented, focusing our work on the successful attainment of the objectives of our clients
We are action driven, advising those who retain us on how best to achieve results for their businesses and assisting them in carrying out and completing the necessary transactions
We are a fully independent institution and our sole business is that of a boutique investment bank. No conflicts of interest exist; our objectives are totally aligned with those of our clients and there is no need of a Chinese wall
We are unique in that our top executives are always involved in actively leading the teams assigned to execute the work; these teams are highly specialized and always include seasoned professionals with significant business, strategic and technical experience in the sectors involved. We are not only experts in the finance field, but also “speak the same language” as our clients and understand their business as well as their problems, be them of a technical, commercial or strategic nature