Brazil · Corporates

Key Facts

—The move. Buyout firm IG4 Capital has approached creditors of Brazil’s Raízen with an offer to buy their claims, according to reports.

—The goal. The plan is to acquire just over half of the debt being turned into shares, enough to control the company after its rescue.

—The company. Raízen is the Shell-Cosan joint venture and the world’s largest maker of sugarcane ethanol, with thousands of fuel stations.