News
Thursday, 19th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
Benites, Forno, Ugaz & Ludowieg, Andrade has helped the Peruvian arm of BBVA Banco Continental obtain a US$50 million credit facility from the China Development Bank (CDB).
Thursday, 19th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
Brasil, Pereira Neto, Galdino, Macedo – Advogados is helping Energisa, a Brazilian power utility company, make its first investment in sugarcane biomass thermal power plants.
Thursday, 19th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados has helped Peruvian power generator Termochilca obtain financing from Scotiabank Perú for the construction of a gas-fired power plant.
Thursday, 19th January 2012 by Katy Oglethorpe
Olavo Chinaglia delivered his first press conference as interim president of Brazil’s Council for Economic Defence (CADE) yesterday. As commissioner, he will oversee the critical period before significant changes to Brazil’s antitrust law come into effect on 29 May.
Wednesday, 18th January 2012 by Sebastian Perry
Venezuela's energy minister has indicated the state is about to make good on its long-standing threat to withdraw from the ICSID Convention.
Wednesday, 18th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
Colombia’s Brigard & Urrutia Abogados, international firm Linklaters and US firm Mayer Brown LLP have helped Colombian state-owned petroleum company Ecopetrol obtain a project finance loan from a syndicate of banks through its subsidiary, Reficar.
Wednesday, 18th January 2012 by Clare Bolton
Speakers from Goldman Sachs, Rabobank, Bovespa, UBS, Vale, FTI and the Mexican Bolsa have all confirmed for Latin Lawyer's Corporate Finance Conference, taking place in São Paulo on 29 March.
Wednesday, 18th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
UK firm Linklaters and Brazil's Lobo & de Rizzo Advogados have helped the Schahin Group obtain a US$692 million debt facility for the purchase of a deepwater drillship.
Wednesday, 18th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
Peruvian firm Muñiz Ramírez Pérez-Taiman & Olaya has helped MCAPhosphates, a Singapore-based joint venture between Japan’s Mitsubishi and India’s Zuari Industries, acquire a stake in Peruvian phosphate rock project Fosfatos del Pacifico (Fospac).
Tuesday, 17th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
US firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Colombia’s Prieto & Carrizosa have helped Banco de Bogotá obtain a US$500 million syndicated loan facility to help repay the bridge loan used for its acquisition of Central America’s BAC Credomatic.
Tuesday, 17th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
Further firms in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and the US have seen associates move up the career ladder to partnership this January.
Tuesday, 17th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
Peru's Benites, Forno, Ugaz & Ludowieg, Andrade has helped Caja Nuestra Gente, the BBVA’s microfinance branch, transfer a portfolio of more than 10,000 loans to Interbank.
Tuesday, 17th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
Argentina’s Abeledo Gottheil Abogados and Estudio Guillermo AC Ledesma Abogados, and Swiss firm Niederer Kraft & Frey have advised private insurance holding company Starr International in the purchase of Assist-Card International Holdings, a provider of travel and emergency assistance services based in Argentina.
Monday, 16th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
Peruvian firms Osterling Abogados and Estudio Torres y Torres Lara and Chile’s Claro y Cía are assisting Peru’s Grupo Brescia in the acquisition of Chilean painting company Tricolor.
Monday, 16th January 2012 by Rachel Hall
Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados has helped US power company Contour Global obtain financing from Brazilian development bank BNDES and a syndicate of private banks.
