Latin Lawyer Volume 12 Issue 3
Deal of the Year 2012
M&A league tables • 2012 pro bono lawyer • Portrait of Paraguay • Career specialisation
Deal / case focus
Wednesday, 8th May 2013 by Marieke Breijer
Marieke Breijer profiles the winners of Latin Lawyer’s Deal of the Year Awards, celebrating the lawyers working on the cream of the crop of transactions coming out of Latin America in 2012
Wednesday, 8th May 2013 by Marieke Breijer
For over two years, leading external lawyers for Chile’s LAN and Brazil’s TAM worked as if they were full-time employees of the airlines, preparing to launch a US$3.8 billion merger to create one of the most ambitious and innovative merger processes the aviation sector has ever seen
Wednesday, 8th May 2013 by Marieke Breijer
This winning private equity deal saw a Peruvian retail store team up with several private equity investors and a bank to create Peru’s largest home appliance retail chain at the end of 2012
Wednesday, 8th May 2013 by Marieke Breijer
In July 2012, CIESA and its lawyers finally drew an end to years of litigation and settled with the energy company’s creditors
Wednesday, 8th May 2013 by Marieke Breijer
It was the first, the last and the only restructuring of a public utility in Brazil, made possible through a brief window of opportunity in the country’s legislation. Struggling energy company Celpa successfully restructured its debt, sidestepping a government attempt to block public utility concessionaires from undergoing judicial restructuring proceedings along the way
Wednesday, 8th May 2013 by Marieke Breijer
When Telefónica found two of its Colombian ventures in stormy waters, it called in its lawyers to devise a plan that would not only address their financial problems but also improve the companies’ future
Wednesday, 8th May 2013 by Marieke Breijer
Seeing Latin American companies invest outside their home region is a far more common sight compared to 10 years ago, but such transactions are often reserved for companies from the region's larger economies. That did not deter this Costa Rican brewery from making a bold move into the US market
Wednesday, 8th May 2013 by Marieke Breijer
At the end of 2012, Braskem Idesa secured a US$3.2 billion project financing for the construction of a petrochemical complex that will drastically reduce Mexico’s reliance on imports of the plastic polyethylene. In organising the largest-ever petrochemical financing in Latin America, the lawyers gave guidance to banks – a number of which had never dealt with Mexican entities before – while racing against the clock to get the deal signed before the change in Mexico’s government
Tuesday, 7th May 2013 by Marieke Breijer
In its bid for Guarulhos airport, the winning consortium and its lawyers came together at the very last minute to put together a proposal that beat off the competition to help Brazil tackle its infrastructure deficit as it prepares to play host to two of the world’s largest sporting events
Practice area focus
Monday, 13th May 2013 by Rosie Cresswell
Rosie Cresswell tracks down the busiest deal-making firms in Latin America last year
Market focus
Wednesday, 8th May 2013 by Rachel Hall
With a rapidly growing economy and important legislative developments in the pipeline, Rachel Hall finds that Paraguay is a resource ready and waiting to be tapped
Opinion
Wednesday, 8th May 2013
Levy & Salomão Advogados partner Joca Levy ponders the future of Big Law and asks how young lawyers can develop the necessary skills to be a good lawyer with a long career
Interviews
Wednesday, 8th May 2013 by Joe Rowley
Latin Lawyer’s Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year Award for 2012 went to Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta Abogados’ Paula Samper. Joe Rowley talks to her about discovering her passion for pro bono and the fight to get law firm partners on board
