{"id":8158,"date":"2017-07-31T16:59:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2017-07-31T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:59:30","slug":"mexicos-first-publicly-listed-oil-company-set-for-august-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/mexicos-first-publicly-listed-oil-company-set-for-august-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico&#8217;s first publicly listed oil company set for August debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/r-mexicos-first-publicly-listed-oil-company-set-for-august-debut-2017-7\"><span class=\"post-cats\">Business Insaider &#8211; Reuters- \u00a0Sheky Espejo-\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tie-date\">July 26, 2017<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;Vista Oil &amp; Gas, with backing from private equity firm Riverstone Capital, will launch an initial public offering (IPO) on Mexico&#8217;s stock exchange on Aug. 11, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal and a document seen by Reuters.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">&#8220;The IPO would mark the entry into Mexico&#8217;s stock exchange of the country&#8217;s first publicly traded oil company, four years after a landmark constitutional oil reform ended the decades-long monopoly enjoyed by national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, better known as Pemex.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6825\" src=\"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/shutterstock_212121928-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/shutterstock_212121928-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/shutterstock_212121928-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/shutterstock_212121928.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">&#8220;A Vista spokesperson did not immediately return a phone call requesting comment.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">&#8220;Riverstone is also a major investor in privately held Sierra Oil &amp; Gas, launched in 2014, the first Mexican oil company formed since the reform.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">&#8220;The Vista debut, the first special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC) in Mexico, plans to raise at least $500 million by offering 50 million Series A &#8220;units&#8221; valued at about $10 per unit, according to the prospectus.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">&#8220;SPACs are publicly traded buyout companies that raise funds through an IPO with the goal of later completing acquisitions. They are commonly used in non-conventional oil and gas projects in the United States.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">&#8220;A two-week investor roadshow for Vista kicked off on Monday in New York, and will move on to Toronto, London and Boston, according to the document.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">&#8220;The Vista management team includes former executives of Argentina&#8217;s national oil company YPF including that company&#8217;s ex-CEO Miguel Galuccio.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">&#8220;The company&#8217;s acquisition targets range from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">&#8220;Energy infrastructure company IEnova, a unit of U.S. firm Sempra Energy, has traded on the Mexican stock exchange since 2103, but is not involved in exploration or production activities.&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;\">&#8220;Mexican conglomerates Alfa and Grupo Bal are also both listed and have oil and gas units, but investors can not directly invest in those units. (Reporting by Sheky Espejo; Writing by David Alire Garcia; Editing by David Gregorio).&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/r-mexicos-first-publicly-listed-oil-company-set-for-august-debut-2017-7\"><span class=\"post-cats\">Business Insaider &#8211; Reuters- \u00a0Sheky Espejo-\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tie-date\">July 26, 2017<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insaider &#8211; Reuters- \u00a0Sheky Espejo-\u00a0July 26, 2017\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Vista Oil &amp; Gas, with backing from private equity firm Riverstone Capital, will launch an initial public offering (IPO) on Mexico&#8217;s stock exchange on Aug. 11, according to three sources with knowledge of the deal and a document seen by Reuters.&#8221; &#8220;The IPO would mark the entry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1017],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}