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Ferrere assists in Biogen’s expansion

Friday, 27th January 2012 by Rosie Scammell

Ferrere Abogados has helped biotechnology company Biogen Idec gain an operating licence for multiple sclerosis drug Avonex.

García & Bodán helps Wakefield enter El Salvador

Friday, 27th January 2012 by Rosie Scammell

García & Bodán has helped Castrol subsidiary Wakefield Marine Energy enter the El Salvadorean market, allowing the company to begin selling lubricants throughout Central America.

Linklaters and Hughes Hubbard land HSBC’s asset sale

Thursday, 26th January 2012 by Rosie Scammell

Linklaters has been hired by HSBC for the US$801 million sale of its Central American assets to Colombia’s Banco Davivienda, which is taking counsel in the US from Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP.

Venezuela announces exit from ICSID

Thursday, 26th January 2012 by Sebastian Perry

Venezuela has formally denounced the ICSID Convention.

BM&A and Pinheiro Guimarães in education debentures issuance

Thursday, 26th January 2012 by Rachel Hall

Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão has advised Editora e Distribuidora Educacional, which is controlled by Brazil’s third largest education company Kroton Educacional, in its first debentures issuance.

Cárdenas & Cárdenas hires World Bank lawyer

Thursday, 26th January 2012 by Rachel Hall

Colombia’s Cárdenas & Cárdenas has hired a new capital markets and banking and finance partner, Roberto Borrás, with plans for further lateral hires in the near future.

Rodrigo and Payet in Peruvian power loan

Thursday, 26th January 2012 by Rachel Hall

Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados has helped Peruvian power transmission concessionaire ATN 2 and its parent company, Spain’s Abengoa, obtain financing from Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP).
Alvaro Galindo

Dechert hires Ecuadorean government lawyer

Thursday, 26th January 2012 by Matthew Pountney

Alvaro Galindo, former head of international arbitration at Ecuador's attorney general's office, has joined Dechert in Washington, DC.
Juan Manuel Gonzalez

Greenberg adds project finance to Mexico

Wednesday, 25th January 2012 by Rachel Hall

Continuing on its aggressive expansion drive and promising further hires next month, Greenberg Traurig LLP has added a project finance group to its Mexico City office with the arrival of Juan Manuel Gonzalez, who leaves Galicia Abogados SC where he worked for less than 12 months after many years at White & Case SC.

Miranda & Amado loses corporate partner

Wednesday, 25th January 2012 by Marieke Breijer

Miranda & Amado Abogados partner Italo Carrano is returning to Payet Rey Cauvi Abogados, a move that follows Payet Rey partner Jorge Lazarte’s decision to join Peruvian pharmaceutical company Inkafarma as general counsel.

Bruchou in wind energy financing

Wednesday, 25th January 2012 by Rachel Hall

Bruchou, Fernández Madero & Lombardi has advised Argentine financial trust Loma Blanca Series I in the issuance of trust securities for an aggregate amount of US$103 million to finance the construction of a wind farm.

Nine firms in Colombian oil exploration loan

Wednesday, 25th January 2012 by Rachel Hall

Canada’s Blakes, Cassel & Graydon LLP, Colombia’s Posse, Herrera & Ruiz Abogados, offshore firm Conyers Dill & Pearman LLP and Chancery Chambers in Barbados have helped the Bajan subsidiary of Grupo C&C Energia, formerly C&C Energy Canada, obtain a loan from a syndicate of banks composed of BNP Paribas, Scotiabank and the Canadian branch of Société Générale.

Delmar Ugarte in BCP loan

Wednesday, 25th January 2012 by Rachel Hall

Delmar Ugarte Abogados has helped Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP) sign a financial lease contract with Grupo Brescia-owned Inversiones San Borja and La Fiduciaria.

Ritch and Robles lead Mexican work in Bimbo debt offering

Tuesday, 24th January 2012 by Rachel Hall

Grupo Bimbo, one of the largest baked goods companies in the world, has retained US firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Mexico’s Ritch Mueller SC for its US$800 million bond issuance – rejigging the legal teams it used in its last international debt placement.

De Luca Derenusson expands with three new partners

Tuesday, 24th January 2012 by Rachel Hall

Three months after spinning off from what is now Xavier Bragança Advogados, new Brazilian firm De Luca, Derenusson, Schuttoff e Azevedo Advogados has hired three new partners and announced further plans for expansion.

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