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Mergers & acquisitions

Mattos Filho in JSL and Simpar merger

Friday, 3rd February

Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados has helped Brazilian logistics company JSL acquire Simpar Concessionárias, a Brazilian car and truck dealer, in a deal that required a corporate governance committee because the companies have the same controlling shareholder.

Azevedo Sette and Pinheiro Neto in credit company buy

Thursday, 2nd February

Pinheiro Neto Advogados has helped Transunion, which is the world’s largest credit bureau, enter the Brazilian market by purchasing a majority stake in Brazilian analytics firm Crivo Sistemas em Informática (Crivo).

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.

Latest law firm features

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    Nelson Eizirik, partner of Carvalhosa e Eizirik Advogados, explains why his firm and the BM&FBovespa are looking to the United Kingdom for inspiration in setting up a panel to monitor takeovers in Brazil

  • Alexis Rovzar, July 1951 – January 2012

    The founding partner of White & Case LLP’s Mexico office and committed philanthropist, Alexis Rovzar, has died in Mexico City on 7 January after a long illness.

  • Taking flight

    The operators of Costa Rica’s main airport have finally secured necessary financing for its modernisation; a project initially launched over a decade ago, but so plagued by conflicts that construction was halted for years. Marieke Breijer talks to the lawyers who guided the project to its second take-off

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Latest in-house features

  • Level 3 moves into Latin America

    When telecoms company Level 3 acquired Global Crossing last month, it brought together legal teams totalling 115 people. Valeria Plastino heads up the new corporation’s Latin America arm, and talks to Rosie Scammell about the US$1.9 billion deal

  • 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

  • Insuring against the worst

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