Wednesday, 8th September 2010
French retailer Casino Guichard Perrachon initially hired a raft of local and international counsel to advise it in the Venezuelan government's takeover of an 80 per cent stake in its Venezuelan assets, with Weil Gotshal & Manges in Paris and Macleod Dixon SC in Caracas leading the process.
Wednesday, 8th September 2010
Lawyers in Colombia say Macleod Dixon is “a firm to watch” after the firm announced its opening in Bogotá yesterday.
Wednesday, 8th September 2010
Santiago’s clearinghouse, Fundación Pro Bono, has awarded law firms and members of Chile’s legal community for their pro bono contributions.
Wednesday, 8th September 2010
Cárdenas, Di Ció, Romero,Tarsitano & Lucero Abogados and Estudio Randle are handling the Argentine side of Canadian miner Goldcorp’s US$3.4 billion bid to buy Canadian-Australian competitor Andean Resources.
Wednesday, 8th September 2010
Pinheiro Neto Advogados has advised private equity fund The Carlyle Group in its acquisition of a 51 per cent stake in Brazilian undergarment manufacturer Scalina.
Tuesday, 7th September 2010
Canadian firm Macleod Dixon LLP has opened an office in Bogotá, creating its second outpost in Latin America after Venezuela.
Tuesday, 7th September 2010
Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados has advised private equity fund Actis Emerging Markets 3 in the acquisition of a US$58 million minority stake in Brazilian supermarket retailer Companhia Sulamericana de Distribuição (CSD).
Tuesday, 7th September 2010
Chilean firm Guerrero, Olivos, Novoa y Errázuriz has promoted corporate lawyer Pedro Pellegrini to partner.
Tuesday, 7th September 2010
ICSID has appointed arbitrators to hear a dispute between US maritime-services company Tidewater and Venezuela.
Tuesday, 7th September 2010
Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados and Holman Fenwick Willan LLP have helped Dutch company APM Terminals Management buy a 50 per cent stake in Brasil Terminal Portuário (BTP), a subsidiary of Belgian terminal operators, Europe Terminal.
Tuesday, 7th September 2010
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP has helped electronic payments (epay) company Euronet Worldwide acquire Brazil-based Telecom Net from a group of private investors including Darby Technology Ventures, Intel Capital and Mifactory Fondo de Inversion Privado.
Monday, 6th September 2010
Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras has retained Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP to advise on its share sale, whose value has been quoted as potentially worth much as US$75 billion.
Monday, 6th September 2010
Davies Arnold Cooper LLP has become the latest overseas firm to tie up with a Brazilian law firm, JBO Advocacia.
Monday, 6th September 2010
Swiss miner Xstrata has closed its US$4.2 billion agreement to start building the La Bambas copper mine in Peru.
Monday, 6th September 2010
Argentina has disposed of another ICSID case against it, settling a US$250 million claim brought by Italian construction group Impregilo over a motorway concession.
