BTG Pactual
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 BTG Pactual facts

• It offers advisory services in mergers and acquisitions, wealth planning, loans and financings, as well as investment solutions and market analyses
• With headquarters in São Paulo, the clients of the Bank – which started out as a brokerage firm in 1983 in Rio de Janeiro – are companies, retail and institutional investors, as well as municipal, state and federal governments
• With assets of R$218,3 bn and shares traded on the BM&F Bovespa and NYSE Euronext, BTG Pactual has offices in the main Latin American cities and in the world's leading financial centers
• Since December 3, 2015, BTG Pactual is controlled by the Top Seven Partners, composed of members Marcelo Kalim, Roberto Sallouti, Persio Arida, Antonio Carlos Canto Porto Filho, James Marcos de Oliveira, Renato Monteiro dos Santos and Guilherme da Costa Paes
• The group has acted as bank executives during André dos Santos Esteves' management, a former BTG Pactual controller and CEO
• The change came after the arrest of Esteves, who is still a shareholder of the bank, but without voting power
• Esteves was arrested on November 25 in the Lava-jato operation, promoted by the Brazilian Federal Police
• Since then, Roberto Sallouti and Marcelo Kalim are co-CEOs of the bank
• Persio Arida is chairman of the Board of Directors