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Seven firms promote new partners

Monday, 23rd January

Further firms have announced new additions to their partnerships.

More firms ring in New Year with promotions

Tuesday, 17th January

Further firms in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and the US have seen associates move up the career ladder to partnership this January.

Bichara Barata slashes Padma’s tax bill

Thursday, 12th January

Brazil’s Bichara, Barata & Costa Advogados has helped food producer Padma Indústria de Alimentos, the new corporate name for Parmalat in Brazil, reduce its tax bill from 1.6 billion reais (US$893 million) to 20 million reais, in a case that implies Brazil’s tax agency won’t tolerate incorrect assessments made by its own agents.

Latest law firm features

  • Taking a break

    In light of Spain’s numerous treaties with Latin America and a favourable tax regime, Uría Menéndez partner Guillermo Canalejo in Madrid and associate Pere Pons in New York make the case for licences and financing through foreign branches of Spanish companies

  • Taking the good with the bad

    Argentina's booming economy is not all roses for the country's lawyers. On top of the usual problems brought about by low foreign direct investment, they also have to deal with crippling inflation. At a recent roundtable, partners from Argentina's leading law firms discussed what this means for the future of the country's legal community. Emiliano Mellino reports

  • Mexican ruin?

    When it comes to coverage of Mexico, the world's press tends to fixate on the drug-related violence in the north of the country and little else. At a recent roundtable of partners from some of the country's leading law firms, we heard how the government's public relations team needs to get its act together and why Mexico – its law firms included – should finally start thinking long-term if it is to ever see the sort of boom Brazil is experiencing

  • The Central issue

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Latest in-house features

  • Balancing Act

    Managing a company's legal issues in up to 18 countries with vastly different political and economical climates is something akin to spinning plates. At our second Latin American Corporate Counsel Association Texas meeting this May, in-house counsel based in Houston with responsibility for Latin America convened at the Houstonian Hotel, where they shared training tips for internal and external teams to make that challenge easier

  • Political Obstacles

    In its fourth annual meeting in Buenos Aires, the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association (LACCA) brought together a group of leading Argentine in-house counsel to discuss the economic situation of the country and the changing nature of their jobs

  • What GCs really want

    Last month's third Latin American Corporate Counsel Association meeting in Bogotá· was attended by more than 20 in-house counsel of leading national and multinational companies with responsibilities for Colombia and in some cases the Andean region. Partners of local and international law firms were also present. One put the all-important question to the table: "What do you seek when you go to a law firm?" What followed was a lively discussion, during which general counsel both strongly agreed and disagreed

  • Regional differences

  • Chile open for business, say local LACCA members

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