Albert Diaz-Silveira and Colleen Grady, Alvarez Arrieta & Diaz-Silveira

It's not often three government agencies join forces to make a multimillion-dollar investment purchase.

But that's what happened in Trinidad and Tobago when the National Insurance Board, National Enterprises Ltd. and Trinidad and Tobago Unit Trust Corp. joined forces to acquire Pan West Engineers & Constructors LLC, which is based in Weimar, Texas, and owned by General Electric Capital Corp., for $168 million.