Change is in the air in Montevideo, home to some of Latin America’s oldest and most established law firms, finds Rosie Cresswell  12 May 2008 | Read

Brazil and Mexico used to compete for investment from the north – but now increasingly look to each other as business partners, reports Enrique González Calvillo, partner of González Calvillo SC  6 May 2008 | Read

The microfinance sector is one of the very few able to achieve both financial and social return on investments – not to mention opening up many new opportunities for local counsel, explain Howard Finkelstein, partner, and Brooke Chadeayne, associate, of Akerman Senterfitt LLP  1 May 2008 | Read

As Latin America’s media turns its attention to the legal sector, Rosie Cresswell asks the region’s lawyers how they like life in the limelight  30 April 2008 | Read

The Brazilian Bar Association’s rules for foreign law firms are increasingly being seen as protectionist, finds Clare Bolton  23 April 2008 | Read

Over the last year the Ipiranga Group has been taken apart and its parts sold to three of Brazil’s icons. Rosie Cresswell talks to the lawyers that steered the reorganisation of Brazil’s petrochemical industry  18 April 2008 | Read

Máximo Spinedi, tax counsel at Siemens in Argentina, says recent changes to Argentine tax law should help investors overcome devaluation of the peso and encourage further investment  16 April 2008 | Read

ExxonMobil’s case against Venezuela has meant a UK judge has tackled the key questions about worldwide freezing orders head-on for the first time. By Alex Bevan, counsel at Shearman & Sterling LLP, in London  10 April 2008 | Read

On Wednesday, Brazil's lower house judiciary committee approved a preliminary proposal for a reform of the country's tax system. Thais de Barros of Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados, on secondment with Cuatrecasas, and Natalia Calvo, Cuatrecasas lawyer on secondment with Machado Meyer, outline the proposals  4 April 2008 | Read

The London Stock Exchange thinks it has more to offer Latin American companies tapping international markets than the US. We interview the person tasked with convincing Latin Americans of that.  3 April 2008 | Read