They found a good partner in BTG, which some have said stands for Better Than Goldman.
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The West Coast company bought telephony patents from BTG and used its strong, new position to negotiate with its competitor.
For all its vim, BTG Pactual will still have to overcome the hurdles that all investment-banking partnerships face as they grow.
In the immediate future this is not a problem for BTG Pactual.
The strategic partnership will both VTB and BTG to expand and establish a long-term presence in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Latin America.
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According to the agreement signed by the two billionaires yesterday, BTG will provide financial advice, lines of credit and future long-term capital investments in projects.
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The fine relates to trades Mr Esteves made in 2007 when he was working for UBS, a Swiss bank, which owned BTG at the time.
In 2009 he engineered the sale of UBS Pactual to BTG.
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Lando, an executive vice president at BTG, a British company that, along with the large consulting companies and law firms, is a longtime player in the patent-management business.
Promoting an aggressive and meritocratic management structure, BTG Pactual employs more than 2, 100 professionals and has offices in Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, United States, United Kingdom and China.
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Like many BTG Pactual ventures, says Steve Jacobs, the head of asset management, it began by investing the partners' own money and was then opened up to clients.
For BTG Pactual, OGX will be a visible client.
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The proposal was sent to Carrefour on June 27 by a Brazilian company named Gama, which is owned by private investment bank BTG Pactual, run by Forbes billionaire lister Andre Esteves.
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