(Valor Economico) June 17, 2011 – Brazil-based Vinci Partners, an asset manager founded by Gilberto Sayao, closed a US$1.4 bln fund to invest in companies. It was through this fund Vinci set up a partnership to oversee the rapid expansion of Burger King in Brazil.

This is the first private equity fund for Vinci, founded in 2009.

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