{"id":16434,"date":"2019-08-19T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-investing-in-mexican-pharmaceutical-company-134437"},"modified":"2019-08-19T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:00:31","slug":"caisse-investing-in-mexican-pharmaceutical-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/08\/19\/caisse-investing-in-mexican-pharmaceutical-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Caisse investing in Mexican pharmaceutical company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Drugs-HealthBenefits.png\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Caisse investing in Mexican pharmaceutical company\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 19, 2019 <\/p>\n<p>The Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec is investing US$500 million in Laboratorios Sanfer, an independent Mexican pharmaceutical company.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which currently maintains a presence in 25 countries, has been focusing on growth through acquisitions for the past two decades, according to a press release. The investment from the Caisse will enable further expansion within Mexico and across Latin America, both organically and through more acquisitions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-investing-in-online-golf-equipment-retailer-133845\">Caisse investing in online golf equipment retailer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur partnership with Sanfer is an opportunity for us to grow our exposure to targeted countries in Latin America, while investing in a key sector of these economies,\u201d said&nbsp;Stephane Etroy, executive vice-president and head of private equity at the Caisse.<\/p>\n<p>Sanfer also has an existing relationship with global growth equity firm General Atlantic, which will maintain a significant minority stake in the company. The exact terms of the transaction weren\u2019t disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCDPQ shares GA\u2019s long-term vision for the company and we welcome them as partners in this next exciting chapter for Sanfer,\u201d said Mart\u00edn Escobari, managing director and head of Latin America at General Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-investing-in-data-centre-operator-telecom-infrastructure-133779\">Caisse investing in data centre operator, telecom infrastructure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-investing-in-mexican-pharmaceutical-company-134437\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 19, 2019 The Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec is investing US$500 million in Laboratorios Sanfer, an independent Mexican pharmaceutical company. The company, which currently maintains a presence in 25 countries, has&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}