News - Deals and cases
Tuesday, 23rd March 2010 by David Thorley
Uruguay’s Estudio Bergstein has advised US-owned PNC Bank as it made a loan to local agricultural equipment company Corporación Global, in a deal counsel say signposts the return of US banks to the country after the crisis.
Monday, 22nd March 2010 by David Thorley
Brazil’s Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados and Davis Polk & Wardwell in the US have advised Eike Batista’s oil-services and shipbuilding operation OSX as it floated in São Paulo.
Monday, 22nd March 2010 by Sebastian Perry
The government of Ecuador is appealing a New York court decision that allows Chevron's long-running environmental liability dispute in the Amazon to be decided by an arbitral tribunal.
Monday, 22nd March 2010 by David Thorley
Lawyers in Argentina say the legal battle over the government’s attempt to use central bank funds to help repay its debt will continue despite Congress voting down a presidential decree on the matter.
Monday, 22nd March 2010 by Amy Stillman
Feinzaig, Scharf & van der Putten have helped US insurance and financial services provider Pan-American Life Insurance Group (PALIG) break into Costa Rica's insurance market, as the sector warms to private competition.
Friday, 19th March 2010 by Sebastian Perry
Argentina's Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal has helped ABN Amro complete the liquidation of a trust set up to manage the sale of assets of Banco General de Negocios in the fallout from the country's 2001-2002 banking crisis.
Thursday, 18th March 2010 by Amy Stillman
Brazil's Souza, Cescon, Barrieu & Flesch Advogados has helped Editora e Distribuidora Educacional buy a majority stake in Brazilian education services provider IUNI Educacional, in a move to expand its market share in the country's education services.
Thursday, 18th March 2010 by David Thorley
Chilean IP boutique Silva & Cía has helped television channel Servicios de Televisión Canal del Fútbol secure the right to register the trademark “Football Channel” - overturning a previous decision by the country’s IP institute, INAPI.
Thursday, 18th March 2010 by Sebastian Perry
Colombia's Posse, Herrera & Ruiz Abogados has brought Chilean gas distributor Gasco to the Colombian liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) market, in what counsel say is the first appearance by a significant foreign player in a sector previously dominated by family-owned companies.
Thursday, 18th March 2010 by David Thorley
Gomez-Pinzon Zuleta Abogados SA has acted as deal counsel as EPM Telecomunicaciones raised US$150 million in a bond offering.
Wednesday, 17th March 2010 by Amy Stillman
A new civil lawsuit against Chiquita Brands International has been filed in a Florida court by almost 1,000 unidentified plaintiffs from Colombia over the murder of their relatives by the right-wing paramilitary group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC).
Wednesday, 17th March 2010 by Amy Stillman
Brazil's Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados has helped real estate company MRV Engenharia complete its third issuance of non-convertible debentures, worth over 516 million reais (US$293 million).
Wednesday, 17th March 2010 by Sebastian Perry
Covington & Burling LLP in the US, White & Case SC in Mexico and Chile's Claro y Cia are helping Citigroup to raise its stake in the holding company that controls Banco de Chile, the country's second-largest bank, to 50 per cent.
Wednesday, 17th March 2010 by David Thorley
Brazilian firms TozziniFreire Advogados and Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados have represented Canadian investors in their formation of a new fund for investing in Brazil.
Tuesday, 16th March 2010
A Texas court has said it can enforce a US$640 million ICDR award against the US arm of Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras under the New York Convention, after finding that the "nerve centre" of a company was in Belgium and not in California.
