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Banco GNB Sudameris is the second Colombian bank to benefit from HSBC's LatAm assets sale

Second Colombian snaps up HSBC assets

Wednesday, 16th May

US firm Proskauer Rose LLP, Colombia’s Cárdenas & Cárdenas, Paraguay’s Palacios, Prono y Talavera Abogados, Peru’s Estudio Echecopar and Uruguay’s Ferrere Abogados have helped Colombia’s Gilinski group acquire HSBC’s businesses in Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay – the second Colombian company to benefit from HSBC’s Latin American asset sale.

Repsol takes legal action against Argentina over YPF expropriation

Wednesday, 16th May

Spanish energy company Repsol has said it will formally launch legal proceedings against the Argentine government over the expropriation of oil company YPF before ICSID, under the bilateral investment protection treaty signed by Spain and Argentina.

Chilean matchmaking site seduces venture capitalists

Wednesday, 16th May

Chile’s Aninat Schwencke & Cia has helped private equity fund Vichuquén acquire a stake in Chilean social networking website Huntcha, as part of a first series seed investment round to fund the development of a product that helps users find out if their secret crushes on Facebook are shared.

Latest law firm features

  • The debate carries on

    BRAZIL BLOG: A public hearing into foreign firms in Brazil continued the debate along familiar lines – although a proposal to further restrict associations has been laid to rest, reports Clare Bolton

  • Poring over external providers

    Weathering storms, floods and strikes, a team of Godoy Cordoba lawyers spent most of the last year travelling around the country to help Ecopetrol in conducting its first-ever labour audit of third party and other service providers. Here they tell Marieke Breijer of the efforts that went into organising a compliance assessment for one of the country’s largest employers

  • Deal of the Year 2011

    Marieke Breijer profiles the winners and runners-up of Latin Lawyer’s 2011 Deal of the Year Awards, celebrating the ever-increasing sophistication shown by the legal teams involved in the continent’s most remarkable business deals

  • A market in its prime

    From sophisticated and demanding local clients to new interest shown by foreign law firms, there are several indicators that Colombia’s legal market has reached maturity. What can the country’s firms expect next, asks Rosie Cresswell

  • Dominating the field

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Latest in-house features

  • The devil in the detail

    BRAZIL BLOG: A long-overdue reform of the antitrust law should enable Brazil to develop a much more effective competition regulatory system – although arguments continue to rage over the detail of the law’s implementation, finds Clare Bolton in Rio de Janeiro.

  • E-Billing

    With in-house counsel ever more focused on efficiency, any tool that can help them spot where money is being wasted seems to be good news – but are Latin American law firms ready for e-billing? By Rosie Scammell

  • Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

    Running a law firm or a legal department in today’s Venezuela has gone so far beyond ‘complex’ that maintaining a positive outlook would seem impossible. But, finds Clare Bolton, a fair number of Caracas’s lawyers think the glass just might be half full

  • Words of wisdom to Europe

    On Monday the Latin American development bank, CAF, and the Institute for the Study of the Americas in London hosted a day-long discussion on the European debt crisis, and what can be learnt from experiences in Latin America.

  • Corruption challenges in an age of austerity

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