ACTIVA CAPITAL GROUP · MIAMI

A boutique firm focused on your financing needs.

Based in Miami, Activa Capital Group provides independent financial advisory to businesses and project sponsors across Latin America and the Caribbean. We work directly with your team to structure alternatives, prepare your transaction and manage the process with prospective lenders.

Franco B. Castro

Our perspective

We start with the need your business wants to address and turn it into a clear financing case supported by projections and documentation. We coordinate the work to reduce back-and-forth throughout the process.

Franco B. Castro

Managing Partner & Founder

Mr. Castro is a finance and investment executive with more than 30 years of experience in cross-border capital markets, investment banking, development finance, M&A, restructuring, and structured transactions across Latin America and the Caribbean. As Managing Partner of Activa Capital Group, he advises institutional borrowers on financing strategy, lender readiness, capital structure, and engagement with development finance institutions and institutional capital providers.

Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Credit Suisse First Boston, Standard Bank, and Violy, Byorum & Partners. His experience includes originating more than $5 billion in fixed-income securities, building and managing financial-services platforms, and advising on distressed and insolvency-related situations.

Mr. Castro holds a JD from the Catholic University of Peru and an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

How we work

Senior attention, collaboration with client management, and coordination with specialized legal, technical, accounting and environmental advisers.

Additional experience

Black Swan Quantitative Advisors

The career described is Franco B. Castro’s personal experience, including prior employers, and is distinct from ACG’s transaction record.

Your business needs capital. Let’s work on the solution.

Boutique advisory from Miami to structure your financing, prepare the documentation and manage the process with prospective lenders.

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