Investment banking · Bogotá, Colombia
30 years of investment banking in Colombia.
Capitalia advises companies on mergers and acquisitions, debt structuring and credit in Colombia — with the judgment of a banker who has spent three decades doing it, thirteen of them in New York.
- 30 years
- in investment banking
- 13 years
- in New York, with Merrill Lynch and Citi
- President
- of HBI and of Iris
Capitalia is led by Lorenzo Garavito, who has spent 30 years in investment banking — including 13 years in New York with Merrill Lynch and Citi — and has served as president of HBI and of Iris.
Companies and counterparties in transactions executed by the Capitalia team
Transactions executed by members of the Capitalia team over the course of their careers. Several were executed while they were at previous investment banking firms.
What we do
Mergers & Acquisitions
We advise owners and boards through the full transaction, not just the introduction.
- Sell-side processes: preparation, buyer universe, negotiation
- Buy-side searches and target screening in Colombia
- Fairness opinions and independent financial advice
- Shareholder entries, exits and reorganizations
Debt & structured credit
Colombian credit markets reward companies that arrive prepared. Most do not, and pay for it in spread.
- Debt structuring and refinancing
- Negotiation with local banks and debt funds
- Capital structure review ahead of an investment plan
- Financial structuring for growth and capex
We read the numbers before the first meeting
Colombia's private companies are hard to read from the outside. The information exists — every company above a size threshold files audited financial statements with the Superintendency of Companies — but it arrives unstandardized, uncomparable and years deep. Making sense of one company has always taken an analyst days.
We built the other path: a structured financial database of more than 30,000 Colombian companies, with ratios, peer sets and industry benchmarks computed the way an investment banker actually needs them. That is why we come to a first conversation already knowing what the numbers say about your company, your buyer or your counterparty.
Look up a company
Company profiles and industry analysis are published openly on our site.
These pages are published in Spanish.
Let's talk
If you are evaluating an acquisition, a sale, a partner, a counterparty or a financing in Colombia, tell us what you are working on. We will read the numbers before we reply.
Prefer email? hola@capitalia.ai