Monday, 24th October 2011 by Joe Rowley
Bribes paid by US citizens during business deals in Latin America are most likely to result in prosecution under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), according to a report recently published by Chadbourne & Parke LLP.
Friday, 21st October 2011 by Rachel Hall
We are better at talking than making things happen, said Marcal Justen Filho, referring to the Brazilian legal system at Thursday’s II Brazil Infrastructure Investments Forum. The founder and partner at Justen, Pereira, Oliveira & Talamini Advogados took to the stage to call for more US-style pragmatism in Brazilian infrastructure law.
Thursday, 20th October 2011 by Rachel Hall
The website looks like that of any clued-up internet entrepreneur – a regularly updated Twitter feed, personal testimonies from the programme’s beneficiaries in embedded video clips, and a blog charting the site’s progress. But Start-Up Chile is trying to do more than just sell a product; it’s trying to sell an entire country to the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Wednesday, 19th October 2011 by Joe Rowley
Peru’s Barrios & Fuentes, Abogados has closed two hydrocarbon block contracts within a week for the UK’s Pitkin Petroleum and Colombian state-owned oil company Ecopetrol.
Tuesday, 18th October 2011
Pinheiro Neto Advogados and Veirano have landed roles on the first sale of an airport concession between private companies in Brazil, in a deal which it is hoped will afford them a competitive advantage as the sector is more broadly privatised.
Friday, 14th October 2011 by Joe Rowley
On Wednesday the US approved three free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia and Panama worth an estimated US$13 billion, but lawyers say substantial barriers still remain in some industries and settlement mechanisms in the bills raise a number of questions over who would have jurisdiction should a dispute arise.
Thursday, 13th October 2011 by Joe Rowley
TozziniFreire Advogados has helped Japanese drinks company Kirin win a decision from São Paulo's Superior Court of Justice overturning an injunction preventing its merger with Brazil's second-largest brewer.
Thursday, 13th October 2011 by Matthew Pountney
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has passed the countrys first competition law, two weeks after it was cleared by the legislature.
Thursday, 6th October 2011 by Rachel Bull and Joe Rowley
After a year of political wrangling, Brazil's Congress yesterday approved a new antitrust bill with President Dilma Rousseff expected to sign it into law within the next few days.
Thursday, 6th October 2011 by Joe Rowley
Chilean flag carrier LAN and Brazilian airline TAM are appealing against three of the 11 conditions imposed on their merger by Chile's antitrust tribunal, TDLC.
Tuesday, 4th October 2011 by Joe Rowley
Japanese brewer Kirin Holding has made a 2 billion reais (US$1.08 billion) bid to buy out the minority shareholders in Brazilian brewer Schincariol Participações e Representações, after they opposed its planned acquisition of the majority stakeholder.
Monday, 3rd October 2011 by Joe Rowley
On Friday the UK's Supreme Court played host to a mock trial testing the concept of environmental genocide as an international crime against peace, but lawyers in Brazil say the concept needs to be better defined before it can be applied in Latin America.
Monday, 3rd October 2011 by Rosie Scammell
Creating consumers is the way to solve the global economic crisis Brazil's former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, told an audience in London on Friday.
Thursday, 29th September 2011 by Clemmie Spalton
Proceedings to overturn an ICSID award in favour of Panama have resumed after US applicants succeeded in dislodging one committee member but failed in their bid to disqualify another.
Wednesday, 28th September 2011 by Joe Rowley
As Brazil's government agrees to give away a greater share of future oil revenues to defeat a political standoff in Congress over proposed reforms to oil royalties, lawyers say the bill is 'dubious and silent' over how it will be applied to oil sharing contracts, as well as unconstitutional and unfair to oil producing states.
