Panorama Capital Partners

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Leads energy, infrastructure, and shipping investments across Latin America. Serves as Board Director of Splenda Offshore and co-founded Interbarge. Has over 30 years of experience spanning the Caspian, Atlantic, and South America, including founding Trans Caspian Shipping and building Horizon Capital. B.S. in Economics and Political Theory, Yale University.

Stephanos Velissaropoulos

Managing Partner

Rio de Janeiro

Directs origination and transaction execution in energy, infrastructure, natural resources, and financial services across Colombia and the Andean region. Spent 17 years at the predecessor firm executing M&A and capital raising in upstream oil and gas. B.S. in Economics, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Graduate Certificate in Finance, Universidad de San Andrés.

Juan Esteban Giraldo

Partner, Co-Founder

Medellín

Focuses on deal origination and investment banking advisory in Colombia, specializing in infrastructure project finance. Brings 15+ years of Colombian capital markets experience, starting at Sumatoria and spending nine years at SCI Investment and Merchant Bank. B.S. in Economics with Philosophy minor, Universidad de Los Andes.

Luis Eduardo Fandiño

Partner

Bogotá

Supports transaction execution and financial analysis across energy, infrastructure, and corporate finance mandates. Started career in M&A at Euro Latina Finance and gained operational experience at Espumlatex. Master's in Corporate Finance, KEDGE Business School. B.B.A., Universidad de Los Andes.

Andrés Felipe Niño

Senior Associate

Medellín

Supports financial modeling, research, and deal execution across Andean and Brazilian mandates. Completed transfer pricing internship at KPMG Peru. B.S. in Business Administration and Psychology with Finance concentration, Northeastern University.

Constanza Tello

Analyst

Lima

Research & Perspectives

Insights

Panorama Capital Partners is a Latin America-focused merchant bank advising on M&A, capital raising, and debt structuring across energy, infrastructure, ports, agriculture, and financial services in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and the wider Andean region. Insights is where we share what our team found worth reading this week — sourced from the desks we track every day, curated and tagged by sector and geography.

Ports & LogisticsBrazil

The Ports Beijing Bought: How China Wired Brazil's Export Machine

$73B across 260+ projects since 2007 gives Chinese state firms control of the grain chain from farm to berth — right as Brazil opens 18 port auctions in 2026 for capital to fill.

Insights · Jul 2026 Read Brief →

Carbon & EmissionsEurope

Europe's Coal Mines Say Methane Emissions Cratered. The Math Doesn't Add Up.

Poland and Germany's biggest lignite mines self-report 60-99% methane drops under new EU rules with no enforced testing protocol — a red flag for anyone pricing carbon-intensity exposure.

Jul 2026 Read →

Consumer FinanceLatin America

Latin America's Buy-Now-Pay-Later Market Hits $18.5B — And Credit Inclusion Is Still the Real Gap

BNPL in the region is growing 25% a year and set to hit $43B by 2031, but the real story is who still can't get credit at all — and who's been quietly serving them for decades.

Jul 2026 Read →

M&APrivate Equity

CVC Sold a $746M Company Without Hiring a Single Investment Banker

CVC ran the entire Skroutz sell-side process on a data portal with an AI chatbot instead of a banker — a live test of which advisory functions are relationship work and which are information retrieval.

Jul 2026 Read →

Power GenerationBrazil

Brazil Just Curtailed 20 GW of Renewables to Watch a World Cup Match

Curtailment losses already exceed all of 2025 as Brazil's 84%-renewable grid outruns its transmission and storage — and the government is walking the transition back with more thermal capacity.

Jul 2026 Read →

AIProfessional Services

AI Agents Will Handle 30% of In-House Legal Work, Deloitte Projects

Deloitte projects a 20-40% drop in external legal spend as in-house teams adopt AI faster than the firms that bill them by the hour.

Jul 2026 Read →

Power GenerationDeep Tech

Moonshots Podcast: Fusion Goes Commercial, Robots Go Commodity, Compute Goes Orbital

Humanoid robots at $4,900 a unit, a Microsoft-contracted fusion plant, and data centers in orbit — a fast tour of where energy abundance and automation are heading.

Jul 2026 Read →

AgricultureBrazil

The Crop That Stays Home: Brazil Grows a Record Harvest and Keeps More of It Every Year

Double-cropped corn increasingly feeds Brazil's own ethanol and biodiesel mandates instead of export markets — insulating it from oil-price shocks.

Jul 2026 Read →

Private EquityAI

PE Has Yet to Prove Its AI Bets to Investors

Only 8% of PE firms say AI is moving EBITDA or exit narratives — most of the gains so far are back-office, not revenue.

Jul 2026 Read →

Curated from external sources; not original PCP research.

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