Tuesday, 15 May 2012
US firm Arnold & Porter LLP has helped Brazil’s government raise 3 billion reais (US$1.6 billion) through a global, real-denominated bond offering.
Friday, 04 May 2012
Marieke Breijer profiles the winners and runners-up of Latin Lawyer’s 2011 Deal of the Year Awards, celebrating the ever-increasing sophistication shown by the legal teams involved in the continent’s most remarkable business deals
Friday, 04 May 2012
US firm White & Case LLP and Brazil’s Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados have helped Brazilian car rental company Locamerica raise 273 million reais (US$145 million) in what was Brazil’s first IPO of 2012.
Friday, 04 May 2012
A guide to the lawyers leading the way in antitrust
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Latin Lawyer's sister publication Global Arbitration Review is holding GAR Live Brazil in less than two weeks, where delegates will debate whether counsel should call expert witnesses to explain the content of the applicable law or explain it to tribunals themselves.
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Sara Lee has retained Pinheiro Neto Advogados to advise in its acquisition of coffee vending company Expresso.Coffee as it continues to target coffee and tea drinkers in Brazil.
Friday, 13 April 2012
BRAZIL BLOG: Globalisation and its complexities with relation to the legal profession bob back to the surface, finds Clare Bolton
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
From confessions at Alcoholics Anonymous to conversations between husbands and wives, what constitutes insider trading is not always easy to define, but securities regulators are finding new methods to tackle the problem according to a panel at Latin Lawyer’s recent corporate finance conference.
Thursday, 12 April 2012
With Brazil's major mining associations poised to file legal action in an attempt to block new taxes on production in the states of Pará, Minas Gerais and Amapá, the country’s mining lawyers are confident that the new fees are so unconstitutional that they won’t be around for long.
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Our daily country by country analysis of each of the jurisdictions included in the recently-published 14th edition of the Latin Lawyer 250 today moves on to the region’s economic behemoth, Brazil
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados and Pinheiro Neto Advogados have helped Japan’s Mitsubishi and the Austrian arm of Germany's Tchibo purchase stakes in Brazil’s Ipanema Coffees, one of the world’s biggest coffee producers.
