by Ekrem Duman | Sep 4, 2026 | Spain Global Expansion & Latin America, Startup
⚡ TL;DRLatin American investors hold €66.8bn of direct investment in Spain, up 103% since 2010, and Mexico alone accounts for €33.9bn of it. Carlos Slim owns about 85% of FCC and, through it, Realia and a stake in Metrovacesa; Carlos Fernández...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 4, 2026 | Spain Global Expansion & Latin America, Startup
⚡ TL;DRIberdrola has spent two decades moving its capital from Latin American generation to regulated electricity networks in Britain and the United States. ScottishPower (2007, £11.6bn), Energy East (2008, $4.5bn) and the creation of Avangrid (2015) built the...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 4, 2026 | Spain Global Expansion & Latin America, Startup
⚡ TL;DRRepsol paid around $15bn for Argentina’s YPF in 1999, lost 51% of it to expropriation in April 2012, and settled in 2014 for $5bn in Argentine bonds. A New York court later awarded former minority shareholders backed by Burford Capital $16.1bn against...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 4, 2026 | Spain Global Expansion & Latin America, Startup
⚡ TL;DRBBVA México earned €5.26bn in 2025, roughly half of BBVA’s record €10.5bn group profit, from a bank the Spanish group bought in two steps in 2000 and 2004 for around €5bn in total. It is the most profitable acquisition in Spanish...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 4, 2026 | Spain Global Expansion & Latin America, Startup
⚡ TL;DRSpanish companies spent the 1990s buying what Latin America privatised — telephones, banks, oil, electricity, airlines — and by 2000 Spain was the second-largest foreign investor in the region after the United States. Thirty years later the region...
