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Baker promotes in Argentina

Tuesday, 24th April 2012 by Rachel Hall

Baker & McKenzie (Argentina) has boosted its corporate, real estate and mergers and acquisitions departments with the promotion of Alejandra Bugna to partner.

Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Peru

Tuesday, 24th April 2012 by Marieke Breijer

In the latest instalment of our reflections on the Latin American legal market we turn to the Peruvian firms featured in the 14th edition of Latin Lawyer 250.

Koury Lopes makes double hire

Monday, 23rd April 2012 by Rachel Hall

Brazilian firm Koury Lopes Advogados has added partners to its insurance and reinsurance and private pension funds practice groups with the hire of two lawyers – one from a rival firm and one from an insurance consultancy.

Nemak buys US parts manufacturer

Monday, 23rd April 2012 by Rachel Hall

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has helped Tenedora Nemak, the automotive components subsidiary of Mexican industrial company ALFA, acquire JL French Automotive Castings.

“Auspicious beginning” for Mexican construction disputes centre

Monday, 23rd April 2012 by Matthew Pountney

A new arbitration centre focused on dealing with disputes in the Latin American construction industry has opened in Mexico.

Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Paraguay

Monday, 23rd April 2012 by Rosie Scammell

As part of our series of reflections on the recent developments in legal markets of the jurisdictions featured in the 14th edition of Latin Lawyer 250, today we turn to Paraguay.

BM&A and Freitas Leite in sewage debt offering

The proceeds from the issuance will be used to invest in a public concession to provide water and sewage services in the city of Cuiabá

Friday, 20th April 2012 by Rachel Hall

Freitas Leite Advogados has helped water and sewage concessionaire CAB Cuiabá – Concessionária de Serviços Públicos de Água e Esgoto issue notes worth 170 million reais (US$90 million).

Uruguay’s tax authority cancels asset seizure

Friday, 20th April 2012 by Joe Rowley

In the final twist in the long running clash between Uruguay’s tax authority, the DGI, and a key shareholder of ceramics company Metzen y Sena, the DGI has said it will not go after assets owned by the ceramic company’s holding company, Ganitur, as previously planned.

Rubio, Rodrigo and Laub in hydropower buy

Friday, 20th April 2012 by Rachel Hall

Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados, Rubio Leguía Normand and Laub & Quijandria have advised a consortium of investors led by the energy arm of Portuguese civil construction and public works company Mota-Engil Energia in the acquisition of the Tarucani Generating Company.
Pam Woldow speaking in São Paulo

Getting the most out of firms

Friday, 20th April 2012 by Rosie Scammell

Speaking at a Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA) meeting in São Paulo, Pam Woldow, general counsel at Edge International, gave her perspective on how law firms should be handled by their clients

Tax lawyer takes over Ecuador's disputes team

Friday, 20th April 2012

Christel Gaibor has been named director of international affairs and arbitration at Ecuador's attorney general's office – replacing Francisco Grijalva, who left last month to set up his own practice in Quito.

During a budget crisis, being selective is crucial, antitrust enforcers say

Friday, 20th April 2012 by Ron Knox

With many national economies struggling with shrinking budgets and limited resources, competition enforcers said on Wednesday that the number and type of investigations they undertake must be more precise - and more effective for consumers.

L​atin Lawyer 250 country by country: Panama

Friday, 20th April 2012 by Joe Rowley

To mark the launch of the 14th edition of Latin Lawyer 250, each week Latin Lawyer will reflect on the developments that have taken place in each of Latin America’s key legal markets over the past 12 months. In the ninth in the series, we look at one of the region’s rising stars: Panama.
Ignacio Torterola

Foley Hoag recruits Argentina's man in DC

Thursday, 19th April 2012 by Sebastian Perry

Argentina’s former ICSID liaison officer, Ignacio Torterola, has joined the international litigation and arbitration practice at Foley Hoag LLP as of counsel.

Fines in Brazil must become more transparent, says antitrust lawyer

Thursday, 19th April 2012 by Ron Knox

One of the world’s leading private criminal cartel lawyers took Brazil’s antitrust enforcement agencies to task on Tuesday for the opaque and often confusing nature of the fines given to cartelists who chose to cooperate with investigators.

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