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Grupo Sura bolsters ING deal with co-investment

Thursday, 2nd February

Several international and Latin American firms have helped Colombian investment group Grupo Sura negotiate US$1 billion worth of funding for the acquisition of ING Insurance International’s Latin American assets from General Atlantic, Grupo Bolivar, the IFC and Bancolombia.

Pinheiro Neto helps Interactive Brokers enter Brazil

Thursday, 2nd February

Pinheiro Neto Advogados has helped Interactive Brokers Group (IBG) establish operations in Brazil, opening up a new market to its existing clients, and allowing Brazilian clients to invest globally.

Arias Fábrega and Galindo in bond issuance

Thursday, 2nd February

Arias, Fábrega & Fábrega has advised food manufacturers Productos Alimenticios Pascual and Bonlac - Sociedad de Alimentos de Primera on their first debt issuance on the Panamanian stock exchange.

Latest law firm features

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    BRAZIL BLOG: Pedro Freitas, the new managing partner of Veirano Advogados, talks to Clare Bolton about why the firm is more than its Rio de Janeiro and project finance roots

  • Preparing for retirement the Chilean way

    Now more than 30 years old, Chile’s individually-funded pension system is performing as planned and has even shown itself capable of recovering from a financial crisis. Enrique Munita, partner at Philippi, Yrarrázaval, Pulido & Brunner, says other countries would do well to replicate it

  • Standing strong in an uncertain world (again)

    Last month, amid the ongoing eurozone crisis and volatility in the world’s capital markets, Latin Lawyer gathered some of Washington, DC’s leading Latin America-focused practitioners to hear their perspective on the region’s position in the world and the role lawyers in the United States capital can expect to play. While the discussion was overwhelmingly optimistic as legal practices in the region and Washington grow in sophistication, there were fears of Brazil overheating and speculation over the role of international counsel in Chinese investment. Rosie Cresswell reports

  • Speeding up securities

  • Feeding frenzy

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Latest in-house features

  • A client’s market

    There are just too many options for legal services in Peru these days - meaning law firms cannot afford to be complacent, according to in-house counsel at a recent meeting of the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association held in Lima. Marieke Breijer reports

  • The unlikely associate

    Sergio Chodos is not your ordinary Argentine business lawyer. After a brilliant career as a young associate in the US and Argentina he decided to work for the administrations of both Néstor and Cristina Kirchner – governments which most of Argentina's corporate lawyers are opposed to. Emiliano Mellino looks at how this once rising star of the legal community became a member of the government lawyers love to hate

  • 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

  • Global networking

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