British automotive company Inchcape has enlisted Herbert Smith Freehills in London, Claro & Cía in Santiago, Brigard Urrutia in Bogotá, Bolivian firm PPO Abogados and Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados in Lima to acquire Chilean counterpart Derco for £1.3 billion (US$1.5 billion).
Greenberg Traurig LLP has reinforced its Latin American finance offering by hiring a name partner from US firm Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP.
Hernández & Cía in Lima has helped two Peruvian solar power subsidiaries of Japanese investor Sojitz obtain a US$122 million refinancing to pay off their existing debt with three international development banks.
Canada’s G Mining has hired Stikeman Elliott LLP in Toronto and Mattos Filho in Rio de Janeiro to obtain a US$481 million financing package for its gold mine in Brazil.
A Canadian energy infrastructure group says it has reached a deal with a Mexican state utility to develop a new US$4.5 billion offshore natural gas pipeline, bringing an end to a pair …
Brazilian logistics group Simpar and its car rental subsidiary Movida have made two separate debt taps just weeks apart, raising a total of 1.75 billion reais (US$324 million).
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Brazilian Elite firm Lefosse has strengthened its compliance, investigations and white-collar crime practice by hiring a former BMA Advogados partner …
Brazilian Highly Recommended firm KLA Advogados has recruited a Pinheiro Neto Advogados lawyer as partner, strengthening its public law department.
As the Andean nation inaugurates Gustavo Petro as its first-ever leftist president, Colombian law firms are preparing for radical changes …
Managing partners need to demonstrate that they are committed to their pledges to boost diversity and inclusion at their firms …
Diversity without sufficient focus on inclusion is undermining efforts to reverse a legacy of discrimination in hiring policies, according to …
GCs in Brazil say local companies are adopting and adapting global best practice to fill gaps in ESG regulations at …
Quédate en casa (“Stay at home”) was the universal slogan echoed by Latin American governments when the covid-19 …
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