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Banco Davivienda will acquire assets in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras

Davivienda turns to Consortium for HSBC buy

Friday, 27th January

Three offices from the Consortium - Centro America Abogados network are acting as counsel to Banco Davivienda, Colombia’s third largest bank, in its US$801 million takeover of HSBC’s assets in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras.

Banco do Brasil in Basel III issuance

Friday, 27th January

Brazilian firm Campos Mello Advogados and Clifford Chance LLP’s New York and São Paulo offices have advised Banco do Brasil, Brazil’s largest financial institution, on a US$1 billion issuance of perpetual bonds – one of the first to contemplate the pending Basel III guidelines.

Pichincha secures two development bank loans

Friday, 27th January

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has advised Ecuador’s Banco Pichincha on two separate loan agreements with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Netherlands’ development bank.

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