The investment arm of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund — with about $5 billion of equity in Brazil including a refinery and three metro lines in Rio de Janeiro — has about another $3 billion earmarked for deals it's working on, Oscar Fahlgren, the head of Mubadala Capital in the country, said in an interview.
It’s a remarkable turnaround from a $2 billion investment in Batista’s holding company that almost went up in smoke in 2013, when the bankrupt tycoon's oil wells proved to be duds, triggering a three-year fight to successfully recover several assets from Batista, such as a stake in the company that owns Burger King and an office tower in Rio's upscale Leblon area.
“We are a foreign investor that had a pretty rough experience getting in, and we’ve emerged as the best private equity manager in the country,” said Fahlgren, speaking from the tower in Leblon. “We saw an opportunity to build a business around a skillset that's quite unique.”
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