(WSJ) U.K-based private-equity firm Apax Partners LLP plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Brazilian companies in the next 12 to 18 months, an executive of the firm said.

“If you think about Brazil in the next four, five or seven years, which is our horizon, the country is still an attractive market,” said Walter Piacsek, head of Apax Partners in Brazil and Latin America. Read more at WSJ.