Friday, 4th May 2012 by Rosie Cresswell
Colombia’s minister of justice is preparing a new statute for the country’s legal profession. Rosie Cresswell met Juan Carlos Esguerra in Bogotá and learnt how he is planning to crack down on bad conduct by reinforcing the idea of what it really means to be a lawyer.
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
Thursday, 3rd November 2011 by Marieke Breijer
Kirsten Cowal is a programme officer for the Tinker Foundation – a key source of funding for pro bono clearinghouses in Latin America. Here Cowal talks to Marieke Breijer about how funding such organisations helps the US-based foundation achieve its goal of developing a fair and equitable society in Latin America
Monday, 15th August 2011 by Rosie Cresswell
Skadden's name is synonymous with M&A work. The firm's Latin American practice tells Rosie Cresswell how they intend to make sure it stays that way – by getting in place for Latin American public companies looking overseas and going hostile in the region
Monday, 15th August 2011 by Kyriaki Karadelis
The head of Mexico's oil and gas regulator, Juan Carlos Zepeda Molina, talks common safety standards in the Gulf of Mexico and how Mexico is opening up its oil industry after 70 years with Pemex as sole player. Interview by Kyriaki Karadelis
Friday, 13th May 2011 by Ron Knox
A year ago, Felipe Irarrázabal left Philippi, Yrarrázaval, Pulido & Brunner to take over as head of Chile's National Economic Prosecutor's Office. Since then, he has overseen one of the most high-profile merger challenges in the country's history, as well as the first criminal prosecutions for price-fixing. Ron Knox asks him to reflect on the past year
Friday, 8th April 2011 by Rosie Cresswell
Electing a Brazilian as global chairman shows Baker & McKenzie is serious about Latin America. As Eduardo Leite takes the reins, Rosie Cresswell looks into the Baker & McKenzie network
Friday, 8th April 2011 by Rosie Cresswell
Eduardo Leite explains how he communicates Baker & McKenzie's strategy to 10,000 employees across 40 countries
Friday, 8th April 2011 by Clare Bolton
The only elected female managing partner of a leading firm in Latin America today, Trench Rossi e Watanabe's Claudia Prado, talks to Clare Bolton about how to build a truly balanced firm
Friday, 26th November 2010 by Rosie Cresswell
Allen & Overy may have come to Latin America later than some of its competitors, but the firm's ambition is second to none. Rosie Cresswell talks to the team about catching up with their US rivals and how strong ties to Asia could give them the edge
Friday, 26th November 2010 by Marieke Breijer
As Brazil's Instituto Innovare prepares to recognise innovative members of the country's justice system with its seventh annual awards ceremony, Marieke Breijer talks to Pedro Freitas of Veirano Advogados about his role at the institute and the pressing need for judicial reform
Thursday, 25th November 2010 by Clare Bolton
GE's regional counsel for Latin America, Josie Jardim, talks to Clare Bolton about her team's work in compliance and diversity - as well as the day job
The reluctant role model
Wednesday, 3rd November 2010
The president of the tribunal that heard the Enron and Sempra Energy claims against Argentina - the awards in which were controversially annulled in July and August (after this interview took place) - spoke to Alison Ross at the ICCA Congress in Rio de Janeiro this May about the possibility of a South American arbitration institution and whether challenges to decisions are getting out of hand
Monday, 20th September 2010
Dell's Latin America in-house team talk to Amy Stillman about providing fast-tracked legal advice in an expanding and shifting marketplace with a new system for law on demand
Tuesday, 15th June 2010 by Clare Bolton
Competitors like to insist that Clifford Chance's Latin America practice was badly bruised in the economic crisis. Clare Bolton asks the team how fair a perception that is
