User:Franklacerda/Ricardo Lacerda

Ricardo Fleury Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Lacerda (born February 14,1968) is a Brazilian businessman and investment banker, co-founder and CEO of BR Partners Group, considered one of the main specialists in Mergers and Acquisitions in Brazil.

According to Bloomberg Línea, he is one of The 500 Most Influential People in Latin America. Lacerda was also chosen as one of the 50 most influential, respected and innovative investment bankers by Global M&amp;amp;A Network in 2023. The choice was made among 85 companies and 490 professionals.

Education
Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration (1986-1990) and a Master's Degree, Finance (1990-1992) both from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) and a MBA focused on Finance from Columbia University (1994-1996).

Carrer
Before founding BR Partners Group in 2009, Lacerda developed a successful executive career in important financial institutions in Brazil and around the world.

Chase Manhattan
Lacerda joined Chase Manhattan in New York. Later, the company merged with J.P. Morgan and became JP Morgan Chase.

Goldman Sachs
In USA, between 1996 and 2001, he was vice president of the investment bank Goldman Sachs. Later, he became CEO at Goldman Sachs in Brazil until 2005.

The company led the 2003 and 2004 Rankings of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Financial Advisers in Brazil.

Citibank
He was managing director of the investment bank for Citibank Latin America (2007 to 2009) and Brazil (2005 to 2009).

In 2007, under his management, he led Citibank to the top of the M&A rankings in Brazil. Lacerda advised on 11 operations in the first half of that year, which totalled US$8.5 billion.

BR Partners
In 2009, together with other partners, Ricardo Lacerda founded BR Partners Group, an independent Brazilian Investment Bank. In addition to being a co-partner, he is the current CEO.

BR Partners Group operates with Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Structured Credit, Private Equity, Treasury and Fixed Income.

For the past 10 years, twice, it was elected the best Financial Advisory Bank in Latin America by Euromoney.

In 2019 and 2020, BR Partner led the M&amp;amp;A and the CRIs (Real Estate Receivables Certificates) rankings in Brazil.

In June 2021, Lacerda led the IPO of BR Partners, which became the second 'pure play' investment bank listed on the Brazilian Stock Exchange. The bank was valued at BRL 1.7 billion and raised BRL 400 million in a 100% primary offering. The proceeds are being used to expand its balance sheet in capital markets and structured treasury products operations for their clients.

Political Positioning
Lacerda is one of the most active and forceful voices in the Financial Market in openly analysing the country's political scene. Recently, in one of his speeches, he said that the Brazilian main business people should have done a “mea-culpa” for supporting the last president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro and publicly he also defends the Congress political project regarding equal wages between men and women.

Ricardo is also a supporter of the third way for the Brazilian presidential election 2022 and has already declared his stands for Eduardo Leite, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul. He also stated that he is not afraid of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva been elected, if the new president comes with the right team, highlighting the name of Henrique Meirelles as a politician that could be “the minister of dreams” in an eventual new government of the former president.