Victoria Capital Partners

The Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association has added two new board members, Carlos Garcia, co-managing partner and chairman of Victoria Capital Partners and Alfredo Castellanos Heuer, senior managing director of Evercore Mexico Capital Partners. Garcia and Castellanos succeed J. Scott Swensen, co-founder of Conduit Capital Partners, and Arturo Saval, managing director of Nexxus Capital, who completed six-year terms on the LAVCA board.

The 2007 vintage DLJ South American Partners is the top performer in this week’s LP Scorecard, which takes a look at the top-ten performing Latin American private equity vehicles in Thomson Reuters Buyouts fund returns database.

LAVCA, an association for private capital investment in Latin America, has named Nicolás Szekasy as board chair. Nicolás Szekasy is co-founder and managing partner of KaszeK Ventures.

The fund of funds market has been under pressure in recent years, so differentiation is the key.

A 2008 vintage Chinese tech fund is the top performing emerging market-focused private equity vehicle according to an analysis of emerging market fund returns from the Buyouts fund returns database with data current as of year end 2011. GSR Ventures III achieved an IRR of 55.1 percent and multiple of 1.9x.

The 2007 vintage DLJ South American Partners is the top performer in this week’s LP Scorecard, which takes a look at the top-ten performing Latin American private equity vehicles in the Buyouts fund returns database.

New data confirms what observers of the Brazilian venture and private equity scene have long been saying: There’s a lot more investment capital going into the region and a lot more exits too.

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