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Thursday, 17 May 2012
Can you guess who sports a beard, seems forever suited and booted in shades of black and grey, and whose natural habitat is either on the driving range or in a Jaguar sports car? According to leading Chilean business magazine Revista Capital, the answer is the country’s lawyers.
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.
Friday, 04 May 2012
A guide to the lawyers leading the way in antitrust
Thursday, 26 April 2012
A Santiago civil court has rejected Chilean state-owned miner Codelco’s demand to freeze 49 per cent of London-listed Anglo American’s southern Chilean mining unit’s dividends, a move that was prompted by an on-going dispute over prized copper assets in Chile.
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, 02 April 2012
The long-running merger between the Chilean flag carrier LAN and Brazilian airline TAM is likely to be completed by mid-May and will not be affected by a ruling on the merger from the Chilean Supreme Court expected within the next fortnight, according to LAN’s Chief Executive Enrique Cueto.
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).
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Chile’s Bahamondez, Alvarez & Zegers has helped private equity fund Fondo de Inversión Privado Roccas in its acquisition of PC Factory, one of the country’s biggest retailers of electronics and computer accessories.
Monday, 16 January 2012
Peruvian firms Osterling Abogados and Estudio Torres y Torres Lara and Chile’s Claro y Cía are assisting Peru’s Grupo Brescia in the acquisition of Chilean painting company Tricolor.
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Chile’s state-owned miner, Codelco, is countersuing Anglo American over a perceived violation of its long-standing contract to exercise an option to buy a 49 per cent stake in Anglo’s prized Chilean copper mine.
