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Monday, 20 May 2013 by Rosie Cresswell
Miranda & Amado Abogados has secured the top positions in Latin Lawyer’s volume and value league tables in Peru.
Monday, 20 May 2013 by Rosie Cresswell
Joe Andrew, global chair of Dentons, has told Latin Lawyer that the firm’s strategy for Latin America will include setting up offices on the ground in key jurisdictions, preferably through the absorption of established local firms.
Monday, 20 May 2013 by Rachel Hall
Shearman & Sterling LLP has boosted its Latin America practice group with the hire of former Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP senior attorney Carla Passos, who will serve as counsel in the firm's New York and São Paulo offices.
Monday, 20 May 2013 by Rachel Hall
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP’s offices in New York and Paris have helped Itaú Unibanco, Brazil’s largest bank by market value, purchase Citigroup’s Brazilian consumer finance unit.
Monday, 20 May 2013 by Rachel Hall
Uruguay’s Posadas, Posadas & Vecino has advised state gas company Gas Sayago in running a public bid for a US$1.125 billion contract to construct and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification plant, which has been awarded to France’s GDF Suez.
Friday, 17 May 2013 by Rosie Cresswell
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enriquez SC and Ritch Mueller SC have emerged as front-runners in Latin Lawyer’s M&A tables for Mexico, occupying the top two positions in both.
Friday, 17 May 2013 by Rachel Hall
The 11th bidding round for oil exploration in Brazil has raised a record 2.8 billion reais (US$1.4 billion), which the country’s oil & gas lawyers say confirms Brazil’s role as one of the oil and gas industry’s key players.
Friday, 17 May 2013 by Rachel Hall
The New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and Peru’s Estudio Echecopar, a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International have helped Peruvian power transmission company Consorcio Transmantaro issue US$450 million worth of notes.
Friday, 17 May 2013 by Rachel Hall
US firm Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Panama’s Morgan & Morgan and Arias & Muñoz (El Salvador) have assisted Central America’s Banco La Hipotecaria with a US$45 million mortgage-backed trust securitisation.
Friday, 17 May 2013 by Rachel Hall
International corporate law firm alliance Meritas has appointed André Ryan, a partner at Canada’s BCF LLP, as chairman of the board.
Thursday, 16 May 2013 by Rosie Cresswell
The usual suspects have taken the top positions of the Colombian league tables, with the country’s four largest firms in the top four spots of the volume and value league tables.
Thursday, 16 May 2013 by Rachel Hall
Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão has helped Brazilian auto parts and railway equipment manufacturer Iochpe-Maxion issue 320 million reais (US$159 million) worth of debentures.
Thursday, 16 May 2013 by Rachel Hall
Peru’s Estudio Ferrero Abogados has helped retail chain Aventura Plaza renew an account-receivables securitisation programme that will finance the construction of a shopping mall in Trujillo.
Thursday, 16 May 2013 by Joe Rowley
Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogadoshas helpedAlmeida Junior buy out Australia’s Westfield Group from a chain of shopping centers in Brazil.
Thursday, 16 May 2013 by Joe Rowley
In March we published an article on Royal Dutch Shell's acquisition of Repsol’s liquefied natural gas assets in Peru without including Peruvian counsel to Repsol. An updated version with the full counsel list follows.