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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
US firm Proskauer Rose LLP, Colombia’s Cárdenas & Cárdenas, Paraguay’s Palacios, Prono y Talavera Abogados, Peru’s Estudio Echecopar and Uruguay’s Ferrere Abogados have helped Colombia’s Gilinski group acquire HSBC’s businesses in Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay – the second Colombian company to benefit from HSBC’s Latin American asset sale.
Wednesday, 09 May 2012
Panama’s Arias, Fábrega & Fábrega has worked alongside Canadian firm Stikeman Elliott LLP to represent Korea Panama Mining Corporation (KPMC) in acquiring 20 per cent of Minera Panama, the owner of a US$6.2 billion open-pit copper mine.
Friday, 20 April 2012
To mark the launch of the 14th edition of Latin Lawyer 250, each week Latin Lawyer will reflect on the developments that have taken place in each of Latin America’s key legal markets over the past 12 months. In the ninth in the series, we look at one of the region’s rising stars: Panama.
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
Tuesday, 03 April 2012
Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes SC has acted as deal counsel to Panama-based Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior (Bladex) in the bank’s first ever bond placement in Mexico.
Friday, 16 March 2012
The IBA last night announced the winner of the Rogelio de la Guardia scholarship, which provides a grant for the winning young lawyer to attend the biannual meeting of the Latin American Regional Forum (LARF), currently taking place in Bogotá, Colombia.
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Mexico’s Galicia Abogados, Clifford Chance LLP and Brazil’s Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados have helped HSBC sells its general insurance business in Mexico to French insurer AXA Group.
Friday, 09 March 2012
Bruchou, Fernández Madero & Lombardi, Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados and Clifford Chance LLP have advised HSBC in the sale of its Argentine insurance operations to Australia’s QBE Holdings (Americas).
Monday, 20 February 2012
Chadbourne & Parke LLP and Suarez Zapata Partners Abogados have helped oil & gas company GeoPark acquire two oil companies in Colombia.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Panamanian firm Arias, Fábrega & Fábrega has helped BBVA in a financing agreement with an engineering consortium, for the construction of three hospitals in rural areas in the country.
Monday, 06 February 2012
Proskauer Rose LLP and three other firms have advised Toronto-listed energy company Pacific Rubiales, which has operations in Colombia, Guatemala and Peru, on restructuring its debt through a series of transactions.
Thursday, 02 February 2012
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.