Continuing our weekly focus on pro bono projects, Sebastian Perry looks at Grasty Quintana Majlis & Cía's legislative reform work in Chile on behalf of The Nature Conservancy 

Restructuring the Dominican Republic's biggest-ever bond issuance was always going to be a challenge - so step number one was to reconvene the legal teams, finds David Thorley

 

In the first of our weekly series examining pro bono projects from around the region, David Thorley looks at García Sayán Abogados’s work with the Clinton Foundation in Peru 

A proposed new Venezuelan law imposing further government supervision of arbitration would be a significant step away from international best practice, argues Hernando Díaz-Candia of Squire Sanders & Dempsey SC in Caracas 

Recent high-profile raids of law firms and in-house departments in Brazil contravene basic legal rights for lawyers and their clients, the public, argues Carlos Roberto Siqueira Castro, partner of Siqueira Castro - Advogados and chairman of the Brazilian Bar Association  

Rodrigo Guzmán, chief counsel for Chile’s environment commission, CONAMA, talks about conflict management and overhauling the country’s environmental institutions.  

Opinion is divided over whether the global financial crisis will help or hinder private equity funds in Brazil. TozziniFreire Advogados partners José Luis de Salles Freire and Marta Viegas consider both possibilities  

A new decree regulating Brazilian ports may restart much-needed growth in the industry, argues José Virgílio Lopes Enei, a partner at Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados 

As Brazil mulls the new regulatory regime for its offshore oil, Paulo Valois Pires, Tácito Matos and Ana Lucia Soares of Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira & Agel - Advogados outline the complex taxation regime companies will face 

Bagging a Linklaters partner has given Proskauer Rose's Latin America practice a stamp of authority in the marketplace - what next for this young but ambitious group, asks Clare Bolton