News - Deals and cases
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012 by Rosie Scammell
Ferrere has helped Chilean asset manager Independencia and Uruguayan EF Asset Management structure the first real estate investment trust (REIT) to be offered on the Uruguayan market.
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012 by Marieke Breijer
US-based adhesives producer HB Fuller has turned to Faegre Baker Daniels LLP in the US and Arias & Muñoz offices across six jurisdictions to sell its Central American paints business to Colombia’s Pintuco.
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012 by Marieke Breijer
Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martínez de Hoz (h) acted as deal counsel for Banco Santander Río in its bond placement worth 159.9 million Argentine pesos (US$35.5 million).
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012 by Rosie Scammell
Bichara, Barata & Costa Advogados has helped Janssen-Cilag, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, win a favourable tax ruling over the company’s incentive marketing programme in Brazil.
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012 by Rachel Hall
Argentina’s Romanello & Asociados has helped Mexican pharmaceutical company Asofarma acquire an Argentine pharmaceutical manufacturer from Germany’s Sandoz.
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012 by Marieke Breijer
Azevedo Sette Advogados has advised Komatsu Brasil International (KBI), a subsidiary of the Japanese manufacturer of mining and construction equipment, in the acquisition of its Brazilian distributor.
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012
Errecondo, Salaverri, Dellatorre, González & Burgio Abogados has advised Toyota Compañía Financiera, the financial arm of the Japanese motoring company, in a US$17.5 million bond issuance in Buenos Aires.
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012 by Marieke Breijer
Bahamas-based hotel and casino operator Kerzner Group has turned to US firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enriquez SC in Mexico for a US$198 million financing as part of the company's global restructuring.
Monday, 21st May 2012 by Marieke Breijer
Ferrere has helped Banco Patagonia see itself cleared from liability for a group of investors’ losses stemming from the Madoff ponzi scheme, in the first court decision to come out of the 2008 scandal in Uruguay.
Monday, 21st May 2012 by Marieke Breijer
Chile’s Prieto y Cía has acted for perfumery and personal care products retailer Pre Unic in its merger with pharmacy chain Salcobrand.
Friday, 18th May 2012 by Rachel Hall
Colombian firms Gómez-Pinzón Zuleta Abogados and Brigard & Urrutia Abogados, Panama’s Morgan & Morgan and Canada’s Torys LLP have helped Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTTP) and Colombia’s Santo Domingo Group purchase a stake in three oil and gas services providers.
Friday, 18th May 2012 by Rachel Hall
Silva & Cía has helped US television producer HBO win a lawsuit filed against the Chilean administrator of Latin American internet media streaming website Cuevana, on grounds that he did not have the IP rights to distribute TV shows owned by HBO.
Friday, 18th May 2012 by Rosie Scammell
White & Case LLP has helped Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Costa Rica’s state-run electricity company, reopen a US$250 million note programme that was the first ever 144a offering to come out of the country six months ago.
Thursday, 17th May 2012 by Marieke Breijer
Peru’s Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas Abogados Financieros has advised the city of Lima in the review and assessment of a highway project aimed at decreasing congestion on commuter routes.
Thursday, 17th May 2012 by Rachel Hall
Spanish energy company Repsol has added to the legal battle it has launched in protest to Argentina’s nationalisation of its stake in YPF with a class action suit filed in New York, following yesterday’s announcement that it would formally launch arbitration proceedings before ICSID.
