Partners of Lima’s leading law firms weighed up the benefits of offices across Peru, and indeed Latin America, and discussed their new role of lead counsel of deals outside their borders during a round table in November 

Pre-salt oil, the World Cup, the Olympics, not to mention the march of its corporates across the globe - Brazil will need a lot of lawyering over the next decade. How will São Paulo’s finest meet the demand, asks Clare Bolton 

TozziniFreire Advogados partner Ana Cláudia Akie Utumi and associate Raquel do Amaral de Oliveira Santos unpick Brazil’s new regulation on thin capitalization 

Having entered Latin America more than two decades ago and expanded rapidly since, Spain’s Endesa is now the largest private energy company in the region. David Thorley speaks to its legal team about their work in one of the region’s most tightly regulated sectors 

David Enríquez, partner with Goodrich Riquelme y Asociados, analyses Mexico’s energy reform and what Pemex needs to achieve to realise its potential  

José Virgílio Lopes Enei, partner of Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados, charts six decades of development in Brazil’s oil and gas legal framework, from the abolishment of the state monopoly and concession regime, to the proposed pre-salt reform