Latin Lawyer March 2009
Strike While the Iron is Hot - Labour Lawyers Step Up
Bolivia's new constitution - White & Case's new business plan - Bimbo/Weston - OAS interview - LACCA second regional meeting
Deal / case focus
Deal focus
Tuesday, 7th April 2009 by Rosie Cresswell
Lawyers working on Grupo Bimbo's acquisition of a US bakery business talk to Rosie Cresswell about Bimbo's march across the United States and how to push financing through when all around banks are collapsing at an alarming rate
Practice area focus
Tuesday, 14th April 2009 by Rosie Cresswell
As workloads pick up, labour and employment lawyers are striving to prove their international capabilities while navigating protectionist legislation at home, finds Rosie Cresswell
Strategy and management
Friday, 17th April 2009
Increased government scrutiny and the economic crisis are putting general counsel under increasing pressure, agreed the more than 50 corporate counsel who gathered for the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA) second regional meeting last month.
Practice focus
Wednesday, 8th April 2009 by Clare Bolton
White & Case LLP is being tested by a recession proving tough for the US legal industry - and in the middle of this is implementing a new global business plan. Practice head Victor Alvarez talks to Clare Bolton about how the Latin America practice will be affected
Market focus
Thursday, 16th April 2009
Bolivia's new constitution reinforces the rights of the state, the Bolivian people and of individual communities - but that contains clear clashes with the status quo in the country. We convened a group of leading external and in-house lawyers to discuss just how one maintains a practice in such an environment.
Interviews
Interview
Thursday, 9th April 2009 by Clare Bolton
Strengthening existing free-trade mechanisms should be the new focus for trade proponents, finds Clare Bolton in conversation with Ambassador Alfonso Quiñónez of the Organization of American States
