Friday, 13 April 2012
Much of Latin America emerged largely unscathed from the global financial crisis and continues to feature a host of countries experiencing economic growth rates the US and Europe can only dream of. So it is little surprise that increasing numbers of multinationals should look to the region in search of new markets and higher returns on investment. Joe Rowley takes a look at the leading M&A lawyers best equipped to help acquisitive companies seal the deal
Friday, 13 April 2012
To mark the launch of the 14th edition of Latin Lawyer 250, for the next four weeks the Latin Lawyer briefing will reflect on the developments that have taken place in Latin America’s key legal markets over the past 12 months. Today we turn to Chile.
Monday, 27 February 2012
Barros & Errázuriz Abogados has helped the real estate arm of Chilean investment bank Celfin Capital acquire several real estate businesses controlled by Grupo Israel Sinay, in a deal which has made Celfin one of the main strip shopping centre managers in Chile.
Friday, 11 November 2011
Anglo American has hired Shearman & Sterling LLP in the US and Chile’s Guerrero, Olivos, Novoa y Errázuriz for the sale of a stake in its Chilean copper mine to Japan’s Mitsubishi, a deal which Chile’s state-owned mining company, Codelco, is challenging.
Friday, 14 October 2011
Carey y Cía and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP have helped Chilean copper producer Codelco enter into an agreement to receive debt financing from Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. Codelco plans to use the short-term loan facility in order to acquire interest in a copper mine owned by Anglo American.
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Bofill Mir & Alvarez Jana Abogados has helped Vestas begin the construction of the Talinay Oriente wind power plant, which will be the country's largest upon its completion.
Monday, 01 August 2011
Claro y Cía and Shearman & Sterling LLP have helped Chilean energy company AES Gener issue bonds worth US$400 million.
Thursday, 14 July 2011
An ICC tribunal has ruled in favour of Italy's Enel against El Salvador in a battle for control of one of the country's biggest renewable energy producers.
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Pinheiro Neto Advogados has helped Thomson Reuters acquire Mastersaf, a Brazilian provider of tax and accounting solutions.
Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Claro y Cía helped Brazil's MPX and sister maritime company OMX in the environmental approval process for its US$4.7 billion Chilean coal fired power plant and related port.
Thursday, 03 March 2011
Chile's Bofill Mir & Alvarez Jana Abogados has helped Brazilian energy company MPX obtain the necessary permits to allow it to continue developing a US$4.4 billion coal-fired power plant in the Atacama region.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Information company Thomson Reuters has bought a Chile and Argentina-based legal publishing business from a US private equity fund, taking counsel from Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal in Argentina, Chile's Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana Abogados and Dickstein Shapiro LLP in the US.
