Latin Lawyer Issue 9
Lateral hires in Brazil | MIGA’s insurance | Costa Rica deal focus | Brazil’s infrastructure delays | Chile’s pension system
Deal / case focus
Monday, 5th December 2011 by Marieke Breijer
The operators of Costa Rica’s main airport have finally secured necessary financing for its modernisation; a project initially launched over a decade ago, but so plagued by conflicts that construction was halted for years. Marieke Breijer talks to the lawyers who guided the project to its second take-off
Strategy and management
Monday, 5th December 2011 by Rosie Cresswell
Latin American firms and foreign firms operating in the region depend heavily on each other – for referrals and for providing a high quality of service to clients – so the bond is a highly valued one. In the past 20 years that relationship has evolved, with the balance of power shifting towards the Latin American firms and so creating a more equal proposition. Interested to hear how that relationship might evolve going forward, Latin Lawyer put lawyers from Latin America in a room with counterparts from US and UK firms to discuss. Rosie Cresswell reports
Market focus
Monday, 5th December 2011 by Clare Bolton
Law firms and in-house teams in Brazil are now hiring lawyers from each other with American-style frequency – with even equity-partner hires a more common occurrence. How is that playing out in such a close-knit community? asks Clare Bolton.
Opinion
Monday, 5th December 2011
Now more than 30 years old, Chile’s individually-funded pension system is performing as planned and has even shown itself capable of recovering from a financial crisis. Enrique Munita, partner at Philippi, Yrarrázaval, Pulido & Brunner, says other countries would do well to replicate it
Monday, 5th December 2011
In light of Spain’s numerous treaties with Latin America and a favourable tax regime, Uría Menéndez partner Guillermo Canalejo in Madrid and associate Pere Pons in New York make the case for licences and financing through foreign branches of Spanish companies
Interviews
Monday, 5th December 2011 by Rosie Cresswell
The in-house team of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group, tells Rosie Cresswell what the agency has to offer Latin America after a historic overhaul of its mandate
Monday, 5th December 2011 by Clare Bolton
Luís Felipe Valerim Pinheiro is the new head of the infrastructure and energy division at the Office of the Chief of Staff’s legal team in Brazil. He talks to Clare Bolton about taking over a position in which everything is controversial and everything is very publicly behind schedule
