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Santiago Metro makes international bond issuance
Zang helps BACS with first notes issuance
Norwegian-Argentine JV to build Paraguayan alloy plant
Machado Meyer in Estre Ambiental debt placement
Petroquímica Comodoro Rivadivia in debt offering
Brazil’s CPFL Renováveis seeks to absorb local rival
Morales & Besa strengthens M&A practice with promotion
Encore Capital acquires majority stake in LatAm rival
Guerrero Olivos helps Plansee forge closer link with Chilean supplier
Banco Santander obtains credit facility in Peru
Tarjeta Naranja retains Beccar Varela to tap local debt markets
Estudio O'Farrell oversees infrastructure trust creation
O'Farrell and Nicholson y Cano reunited in Sarmiento railway issuance
IRSA retains Zang, Bergel in notes issuance
BR Properties in logistics sell-off
Sete taps international finance for pre-salt drills
Linzor Capital retains Noguera, Larraín in retail acquisition
O'Farrell and Tanoira Cassagne reunited for YPF debt issuance
Famsa retains Mijares for bond issuance
Freitas Leite and Demarest in financial notes issuance
Pérez Alati and Salaverri Dellatorre reconvened for BRF, Quickfood issuance
Energisa makes sixth debenture issuance
Tanoira Cassagne helps Bayer grow its portfolio
Carassai and Pérez Alati in inaugural infrastructure issuance
Switzerland’s Bucher in Brazilian agro-industrial takeover
YPF makes 30th notes issuance
Ventus Energía spurs financing through innovative means
Fitness chain Bodytech obtains receivables-based credit
Telefónica retains Guerrero Olivos for double bond issuance
Mexican government mortgage provider makes inaugural 2014 issuance
Crédito Real makes high-yield bond issuances and tender offer
Mexico issues first century bond in sterling
New Colombian legislation adds complexity to debt issuance
Brazil’s Marfrig issues high-yield debt
Pereira Neto and DLA Piper steer Brazilian sugar-ethanol finance
Chile’s national railway company secures 20-year credit without state guarantee
Bain Capital snaps up Brazilian health insurance provider
ALAE expands into Mexico
TMF Trust issuance steered by Bruchou and Marval
Mexico's Alfa in inaugural international bond issuance
Peru’s San Fernando obtains syndicated credit
Larraín and Cariola Díez help close wind project credit facility
Interbank taps debt market
Chaco province turns to Cabanellas Etchebarne for inaugural issuance
Chilean retailer issues revolving securitised bond
Banco de Chile returns to Carey for Swiss bonds
Machado Meyer and Stocche Forbes drive through motorway debentures
Carey and Philippi in forestry JV
Julius Baer ups stake in Brazil’s GPS
Melara chosen as SCG Legal’s Honduran representative
Arap Nishi and Souza Cescon back Galeão expansion
García & Bodán helps Cargill win approval for retirement plan
Baker and Carey in Emeco refinance and credit facility
Mivivienda returns to the debt market
Tozzini and Lefosse in AES Tietê issuance
Linklaters, Simpson Thacher and Hunton make LatAm promotions
Noguera Larraín partner joins SVS
Embratel retains Veirano for debt issuance
Reuters subsidiary in Brazil software company buyout
Rebaza helps Sigma boost infrastructure fund
YPF makes Argentina’s largest-ever bond offering
Beccar Varela steers TMF Argentina issuance
Dias Carneiro and Hunton in IADB credit line
Major Colombian port receives finance
Mattos Filho, Pinheiro Guimarães and Cleary land Stuhlberger - Credit Suisse deal
Investors snap up stake in Colombian pipeline
Five firms in Minerva debt offering
Kimberly Clark de México taps debt market
Six firms in record-breaking Bambas acquisition
Airline Avianca reopens bonds
Bofill Mir and Clifford Chance in Vestas credit facility
Mijares in Televisa debt tap
Lobo & de Rizzo promotes four
Pellerano & Herrera appoints of counsel
Investment funds snap up Madonna gyms in Chile
Endesa in bond issuance
Mattos Filho leads biotech investment
BNDES returns to debt market
Costa Rica issues bonds worth US$1 billion
Mexico’s largest onshore wind project receives finance
Dias Carneiro and Andrews Kurth in IADB loan to Minas Gerais state
Peru’s Camposol reopens notes
Carey and Mackenna steer healthcare buy
AuRico Gold taps debt market
Guyer, Posadas and Davis Polk in agribusiness acquisition
Miranda, Shearman, Rubio and Mayer Brown in Abengoa project bond
Zang and Errecondo in Tarshop issuance
Pellerano and Simpson Thacher in Dominican Republic’s US$1.25 billion issuance
Marval leads financial trust issuance
Nine firms in Sura international issuance
Fiat retains Beccar Varela for debt issuance
Agrobanco obtains credit line
JBS subsidiary issues notes
Mosaic in ADM fertiliser buy
Miranda strengthens labour and tax teams
Arap Nishi and Loeser navigate new regulatory framework in port purchase
Motta Fernandes and Souza Cescon in hydro issuance
German e-commerce company enters Brazil
Endesa buys Southern Cross’ stake in GasAtacama
Pérez Alati in Comafi debt tap
Televisa issues bonds worth US$1 billion
Brazil’s Montgomery advises Venezuelan state airline
Prieto y Cía in water company issuance
Arca and Coca-Cola close Ecuador buy
KLA, BM&A and Odair in advertising buy
Curtis and Bruchou in Argentine soya processing plant buy
Buenos Aires’ first logistics hub obtains funding
Cabanellas Etchebarne and Errecondo González in Supervielle debt tap
PDVSA retains regular counsel for bond issuance
Russin Vecchi joins DR pro bono clearinghouse
Madrona Hong in Belo Horizonte debt tap
Sacovertiz and Payet Rey in Cineplex issuance
Posse Herrera in Sura bond issuance
Arias Fábrega steers Pan-American highway finance in Panama
Private equity fund snaps up auto-part assets in Brazil
Chinese company buys up Brazilian auto-part assets
Chilean “Domino” trademark battle ends in Supreme Court
Brazil’s Tauil & Chequer in wind farm finance
Carey and Shearman in Banco de Chile debt placement
Seven firms seal Ramones pipeline contract
Twenty firms line up for Terranum hotel buy
Brazilian insurance boutique adds of counsel
Miner First Quantum obtains US$3 billion finance facility
Top US food distributor snaps up shares in Costa Rica’s Mayca
Brazilian PE fund acquires stake in BTG Pactual energy holding
Petrolera Pampa retains Salaverri Dellatorre for notes issuance
Barbosa Raimundo and Vaz Barreto in utility company debt offering
Dias Carneiro, Pinheiro Neto and Reed Smith in wind farm financing
Brazil’s Caixa makes US$1.3 billion bond issuance
Holland & Knight in Mexican auto-loan provider debt offering
Four firms help betting company Intralot refinance debt
O'Farrell and Tanoira Cassagne called upon for YPF issuance
BRF in dual cash tender and bond issuance
IFC grants loan to Dominican microfinance entity
Alfaro Ferrer and Arias Fábrega in Panamanian power line loan
Marfrig’s UK unit issues debt
US reinsurance company buys Paraguayan counterpart
Private equity snaps up auto assets in Costa Rica
Nidera retains Arap Nishi for 10-year waterway logistics deal
Cabanellas Etchebarne and Tanoira Cassagne in Neuquén debt offering
Baker and Carey in Chilean loan restructuring
Headrick Rizik partner moves to Quiroz Santroni
Michelin to buy Brazilian freight logistics company
Modal fund buys into Santo Antônio dam
Slim’s Inbursa in first international debt offering
Guatemala’s first solar plant goes online
Odebrecht’s Peruvian unit buys hydro project from Volcan
Agribusiness retains Bruchou for share offering
Canadian hydrocarbon compressor snaps up LatAm assets
Mundialito plagiarism case thrown out of Uruguayan appeals court
American Tower continues LatAm asset buy up
Peru’s Mivivienda issues debt in Switzerland
Sempra’s cross-border wind farm obtains finance
BM&A steers new project finance repayment structure for Renova
Four firms in Odebrecht notes offering
HudBay obtains loan for Peru’s Constancia mine
Santamarina y Steta opens office in Querétaro
Relationships and English law key for closer UK-Colombia legal cooperation
Fovissste retains Chávez Vargas for bond issuance
CADE rules optics industry quality stamp not anti-competitive
Mijares helps microfinance bank issue bonds
Sun European snaps up Brazil-based manufacturing assets
Marval steers trust issuance
Peru’s Medifarma obtains loan from Itaú
BM&A steers Klabin debentures issuance
Mijares and Forastieri advise on Genomma’s Marzam buy
Bimbo issues notes worth US$1.3 billion
Echecopar acts as deal counsel for Transmantaro loan
Rio pension fund securitises oil royalties abroad
Pérez Alati advises banks for pulp industry loans
JBS issues notes in the US
Canadian energy compressor closes Brazil and Peru legs in LatAm asset buy
IADB retains Dias Carneiro and Andrews Kurth for Minas Gerais loan
Santos Neto and Chadbourne in Biosev credit facility
LatAm’s largest e-commerce site issues notes
Pinheiro Neto helps ING exit LatAm insurance market
Guyer & Regules in Uruguay’s first solar energy PPA
OMG promotes in real estate and tourism
Visteon acquires LatAm assets in multinational auto-part deal
Von Wobeser and Creel García-Cuéllar in Mexican leg of Enerflex-Axip deal
Brigard and Posse Herrera help finance Colombian advertising buy
Peruvian toll consortium picks up cross-border finance
Odebrecht’s latest oil and gas notes issuance sees familiar counsel
Nader Hayaux helps Pan-American win health insurance bid to cover Mexican diplomats
HRT to snap up Polvo oilfield as Maersk begins Brazil retreat
Brazil’s OAS issues notes
Gaxiola Calvo and Mijares in Mexican infrastructure finance
Argentina’s Mastellone Hermanos returns to the capital markets
Galicia helps Pemex file US$15 billion shelf registration
LatAm's first diamond bourse appoints three firms as legal advisers
Ferrero and Muñiz return for Edelnor multi-loan
Demarest looks east with new Chinese desk
Mattos Filho and Pinheiro Guimarães steer Rio power company debt offering
Ferrere helps development bank set up in Santa Cruz
Salaverri Dellatorre steers Banco de Servicios y Transacciones issuance
YPF returns to the capital markets
Philippi, Simpson Thacher, Carey and Davis Polk in Entel issuance
Siqueira Castro helps pension fund win accounting battle with regulator
TAGLaw establishes presence in Bolivia through Moreno Baldivieso
Brigard and Durán & Osorio in Cundinamarca highway concession
Banco de Chile retains Carey to create international notes programme
Doing the Deal: Mayer Brown’s Christopher Erckert on financing Peru’s Rutas de Lima
SAAM-Boskalis JV creates LatAm’s largest tug business
Texan firm Gardere incorporates Mexico’s Arena y Asociados
Tauil & Chequer helps Ecopetrol enter Angola
Machado Meyer and BM&A in Rio real estate JV
Stocche Forbes and Lefosse in real estate issuance
Guevara & Gutiérrez adds to partnership from YPFB
Ferrero Abogados in Celima financing deal
Five firms kick off project finance backing solar power in Uruguay
Latin Lawyer dinner raises record funds for pro bono
Endesa Chile secures credit line
Southern Cross buys Mexican publishing group
Errecondo González and Tanoira Cassagne in Mercedes-Benz issuance
Paraguay makes record US$1 billion bond issuance
Mexico’s Alpek acquires BASF’s LatAm polystyrene assets
Chinese consortium secures US$7 billion to fund Bambas buy
La Hipotecaria backstops Panamanian cross-border issuance
Japan shores up food supply with Brazil agribusiness loan
UAE PE manager exits Peruvian retailer
Ferrere helps Uruguayan construction companies merge
Voltalia obtains finance for more wind farms in Brazil’s north-east
Pérez Alati and Errecondo González help Axion tap capital markets
Ferrere helps Avon exit Bolivia
Von Wobeser does pro bono to help Pro Natura preserve water
Machado Meyer and Mattos Filho in APDC debt issuance
Guyer & Regules helps state mortgage provider issue debt
Intel’s investment arm buys Brazilian software developer
Canadian miner credit facility draws on Mexican counsel
EFE obtains funding for Concepción railway extension
Stocche Forbes in Atlântico Sul debt issuance
Fashion chain Michael Kors shuts down fake Santiago boutique
Medellín turns to Posse Herrera for municipal bond offering
Arias & Muñoz in Panama Multibank loan
Singapore sovereign fund continues Brazilian buying spree
Cable & Wireless Panama snaps up LatAm assets
Bio Pappel becomes Mexico’s largest paper manufacturer
One week to go to Latin Lawyer’s Private Equity Conference
Odebrecht-Enagás Peruvian pipeline JV obtains finance
Former Carey associates open new firm
First Solar obtains power plant financing in Chile
Mattos Filho and Demarest help Qualicorp up stakes in two health insurers
LatAm private equity to deploy funds and diversify in 2015
Water provider changes hands in drought-hit Brazilian city
Ferrere’s managing partner to chair Endeavor Uruguay
Firms line up for United Oils notes issuance
LatAm private equity faces challenges, but market is improving, say banking panellists
BM&A and Souza Cescon help L’Oréal buy hair dye company
EMP issues notes to help fund Colombian hydro project
LatAm lawyers highlight positive regulatory changes for PE fund raising
TVN drops case against TuVes over broadcast rights
Tax structure key to Mexican and Brazilian PE deals
Guyer & Regules leads Montes del Este trust issuance
BTG issues notes worth US$1.3 billion to fund BSI buy
Mexico’s INFONACOT launches debt programme
Barros & Errázuriz steers Coca-Cola issuance
Pellerano & Herrera partner leaves for new firm
Familiar counsel line up for Axtel issuance
Corruption, economic slowdown and state intervention hinder LatAm PE
Enersis obtains majority stake in Peruvian electricity provider
Norwegian Cruise Line buys Panama-flagged Prestige for US$3 billion
Sete secures loan for pre-salt drill rigs
Mexico’s moment will last, but UK firms must forge closer links to benefit
Private equity’s access to leverage remains limited in LatAm
Six firms in CorpBanca notes offering
O'Farrell and Tanoira retained for YPF issuance
Abengoa secures credit for Uruguay wind farm
Mexichem returns to the capital markets
Azevedo Sette eyes real estate with new partner hire
EEB secures loan to fund TGI buy
Bain Capital’s Atento in US$149 million IPO
Marval leads trust issuance
MNA-Martinez steers Pichincha Colombian capital markets debut
Future openings probable in LatAm says Garrigues’ new chairman
Mexico’s Liverpool completes first international notes offering
Siqueira Castro opens new office in Curitiba
Lundin strikes US$1.8 billion Chilean copper mine deal
Santivañez and Hernández & Cía steer Electro Dunas credit line
PetroEcuador obtains credit line to fund infrastructure upgrades
Common problems in civil lands
Budget airline Gol in dual notes issuance and tender offer
Havaianas maker increases stake in sportswear company Osklen
Posse Herrera and Gómez-Pinzón steer FDN finance deal
Littler opens in Peru
Owens Corning acquires Chilean roofing company
Baker strengthens Colombian tax practice
Chávez Vargas helps supply free TVs to Mexican households
PBDA gains new signatories at Dominican Pro Bono conference
Muñiz Ramírez steers Gloria bond issuance
Colombia-based O&G company Vetra obtains credit facility
Ivanhoé partners with Black Creek to invest in Mexican real estate
Tyco becomes sole owner of Brazil’s Plastrom Sensormatic
Yara International adds to LatAm fertiliser assets with OFD buy
Shearman, Saco-Vertiz, Simpson Thacher and Miranda in Peruvian retail notes issuance
Tavarone Rovelli and Bruchou steer hybrid project finance deal
Gerdau-Metaldom set to be DR's first international steel company
Mattos Muriel and Sergio Bermudes steer sugar mill buyout
Argentina’s Pluspetrol acquires Apco Oil
Lefosse, Davis Polk, Mattos Filho and White & Case land Brazil’s first IPO of 2014
Molinos Río de la Plata and Mondelēz exchange food assets in Argentina
Pattern signs PPA with Antofagasta Minerals for its first solar project
Cleary, Milbank and Ritch Mueller in US$1 billion double Pemex notes issuance
Holland & Knight, Muñiz Ramírez and Pérez Bustamante steer Bladex loan
Telecoms companies team up with Google to lay deep-sea cable
Bruchou banks on mining boom with double partner hire
Tavarone Rovelli steers BeST Consumer Finance issuance
O'Farrell and Tanoira in YPF bond offering
TED Talks comes to South America for the first time
Santiago’s largest bus operator files for bankruptcy protection
New Mexican firm opens in response to reforms
Fintech and Telecom Italia rejig terms for Telecom Argentina buy
WDA ties the knot with local tax boutique
Cofides divests stake in Abengoa's Peruvian unit
Mijares spin-off Malpica Iturbe hires Avah partner
Ford auto finance offering in Brazil
Demarest and Pinheiro Guimarães land Brazil’s largest-ever agribusiness receivables offering
Argentina’s Supreme Court rules search engines not liable for content
BLP promotes IP lawyer to partner
Hogan Lovells BSTL hires former Kuri Breña partner to boost finance offering
Lefosse and Pinheiro Guimarães in Multiplan debenture offering
Uruguay’s first futures exchange wins Central Bank approval
Frutarom acquires food colourant assets in Chile and Peru
Nicholson y Cano and Errecondo González steer Ledesma notes offering
Sophia Capital snaps up Lupatech’s Argentine assets
Machado Meyer and Souza Cescon in Estácio debenture issuance
Norwegian fishing company snaps up Chilean assets from distressed sellers
DR&A steers wind turbine buy
Machado Meyer, TozziniFreire and Demarest in Brazilian leg of Stahl-Clariant buy
TozziniFreire expands real estate practice
FRV’s Jacinta solar plant obtains long-term finance in Uruguay
Arias & Muñoz helps Aeroman expand repair services
Chinese search engine Baidu acquires Peixe Urbano
Mexico’s energy project finance opportunities lie downstream
Pérez Alati and Salaverri Dellatorre in BRF debt tap
Government support key to Peru and Colombia’s project finance success
UK private equity targets Brazilian insurance brokerages
Mexico issues first LatAm sovereign bonds with new collective action clause
Veirano and Machado Meyer in Prumo share issuance
Petrobras turns to Gibson Dunn and Trench Rossi after SEC subpoena
Five firms in US$4.6 billion Cielo-Banco do Brasil card JV
Brazil, Chile and Uruguay provide strong opportunities for renewables
Demarest promotes four to partnership
García & Bodán steers creation of Nicaragua’s first SAFI
Hoet Peláez eyes Caribbean with strategic alliance in Aruba
Holland & Knight steers inaugural FIBRA rights offering
Chilean gas plant obtains Korean finance
Iron ore consortium Namisa merges assets into new company
Project bonds offer greater flexibility, but face limitations
Platform Specialty Products snaps up Chemtura’s worldwide agrichemical businesses
São Paulo obtains MIGA-backed transport loan
Posadas, Posadas & Vecino structures renewables trust
Onex agrees US$4.4 billion multinational drinks carton buyout
Three partners leave Negri, Busso & Fariña to form new firm
Authorities struggle to keep pace with high PPP demand
Six firms in Peruvian port finance deal
Veirano disputes partners leave for Lefosse with associates in tow
Allen & Overy steers Vale Mozambique sale
Doing the Deal: Pérez Alati’s Mariano Grondona on Google and Yahoo's Supreme Court victory
TozziniFreire lands secretive US$5.4 billion fighter jet deal
Eduardo Mayora Dawe: 8 August 1928 – 10 December 2014
Mattos Muriel represents whistleblower in Petrobras corruption case
US-Cuba thaw unlikely to yield immediate business opportunities
Davis Polk, Zürcher Odio and Foley & Lardner engaged in Costa Rica telecoms merger
IHC snaps up Brazilian offshore logistics assets
Mattos Filho, Cárdenas and Posse Herrera help OGX divest Colombia assets
Bolivia’s biggest stock exchange deal sparks controversy
Machado Meyer and Freitas Leite in Odebrecht debentures offering
Scotiabank snaps up Citi's banking operations in Peru
Torres y Torres and Rebaza Alcázar drive Peru loan deal
Mexico issues debt at "historically low" rates
Amazonian shipping company obtains bridge finance
Cinépolis premieres in Chile through Hoyts buy
Bichara helps glass importer win anti-dumping exemption
Colombia’s Altra snaps up logistics assets in Peru
Ferrere steers Bolivia-Argentina ambulance buy
Mattos Filho in homebuilder debentures issuance
Payet Rey helps refinance Gloria’s Soboce buy
Walgreens completes multi-billion dollar pharmacy merger with Alliance Boots
Mexico court approves Urbi bankruptcy
Galeão airport obtains limited recourse financing for upgrade
Soriana closes gap on Walmart with retail buy
Delmar and Payet Rey create infrastructure debt programme
Ferrere taps pension funds with forestry trust issuance
Glencore backs PetroRio offshore buy amid debt markets drought
Chilean boutique Garnham adds name partners and expands offering
CRH snaps up Holcim-Lafarge Brazilian assets in US$7.4 billion global deal
US education company buys Brazilian bar exam issuer
Avah eyes expansion with double hire
Costa Rica’s Pacheco Coto promotes tax associate to partner
Project bonds keep Lima’s Línea 1 on track
Debt-laden Aralco wins restructuring approval
Ecopetrol obtains nearly US$2 billion in finance
PagaTodo tops up assets with Fullcarga acquisition
YPF returns to global capital markets amid oil price slump
Dias Carneiro and Jones Day steer IADB biofuel loan
Intercorp Peru refinances debt
Pemex becomes first Mexican corporate to use global debt clearinghouse
Paraguay becomes first to allow non-state law in cross-border litigation
Couto Silva promotes two in core areas
Rodrigo Elías in transmission line tender win
Cascione Pulino helps FRV break records in Brazil energy auction
German insurer snaps up assets in Chile and Peru
Gómez-Pinzón in Nutresa-El Corral buy
Mattos Filho helps Alô Mobile reach the faithful
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Panama
Guatemala’s Momotombo buys stake in Nicaraguan hydro project
Cuesta Campos strengthens tax division
Petrolera Pampa retains Salaverri for debt issuance
Littler member BDS enters Guatemala
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Uruguay
Galicia in shopping centre trust issuance
Uría, Brigard, Jones Day and Torrado Angarita in LatAm hotel deal
DR clearinghouse adds NGOs to pro bono umbrella
Payet Rey helps Credicorp launch real estate fund
Siqueira Castro makes double consumer law hire
MHM and Campos Fialho begin integration
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: El Salvador
Consortium strenghtens Guatemalan disputes practice
AFP launches US$1 billion priority projects fund
Rio becomes first beneficiary of government dredging scheme
Grupo Rojas sells DR's most popular energy drink
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Honduras
EDF enters Brazil’s renewables market
Santivañez partner leaves to establish energy boutique
Norway’s Statkraft enters SPA with Chile’s Pilmaiquén
Uruguay's legal community welcomes customs code
Jones Day hires partner to head LatAm pharma arm
Machado Meyer, Mundie and Rolim Viotti drive digital switchover
Colombia returns to international debt markets
Cemex completes two-step debt refinancing deal
Uruguay opens wind farm investment to the public
Noguera Larraín in DBS Beauty acquisition
Ficohsa snaps up Citi’s assets in Nicaragua
Indian agribusiness buys out Brazilian partners
Mattos Filho elects new managing partner
Bofill Mir steers Ñuble dam JV
Majority shareholders take over Brazil Fast Food at second attempt
Mattos Filho and Demarest help Copersucar raise funds
Petrobras divests Argentine assets amid corruption probe
Demarest obtains funding for dredging in São Paulo
Carey and Larraín steer financing for the Teniente mine
Azevedo Sette steers tech start-up buy in Brazil
Mexico sells world’s first 100-year bond in euros
Miranda & Amado and Estudio Echecopar steer agribusiness asset buy
Petrobras contractor Amal receives bankruptcy protection
Hamburg Süd snaps up CCNI’s container-shipping assets
BMA overhauls pro bono and legal training programmes
Peru expands e-money law to companies
YPF breaks capital markets record with US$1.5 billion issuance
De Luca Derenusson helps French construction services company enter Brazil
Controversial Argentine telecoms regulator will be formed this month
Latin Lawyer M&A league tables: Argentina
Latin Lawyer M&A league tables: Brazil
Latin Lawyer M&A league tables: Chile
Latin Lawyer M&A league tables: Colombia
Latin Lawyer M&A league tables: Mexico
Holdouts seek to freeze Argentine embassy assets in sovereign debt row
Latin Lawyer M&A league tables: Peru
Latin Lawyer M&A League Tables: International
Simpson Thacher and Rebaza Alcázar help Lexington Partners launch Peruvian PE fund
Telefónica issues shares worth US$5.5 billion to fund GVT acquisition
Mattos Muriel opens in Ribeirão Preto
BLP merges with antitrust boutique in Costa Rica
Rebaza Alcázar helps Servitebca enter Peru’s e-money market
Estudio Beccar Varela reinforces white collar division with hire
Peruvian Justice Minister returns to Benites Forno
Avah Legal absorbs labour boutique, makes double of counsel hire
Ferrere opens in Ecuador
Mexico ends LatAm’s half-year IPO blackout
Mapping pro bono’s DNA
Demarest helps Singapore invest in Rede D’Or
Ritch Mueller adds partner from Santamarina
“Me-too” holdouts piggyback on NML's Argentine debt ruling
Mexico confirms round one guidelines
INDECOPI revokes dumping duties on Chinese clothing
Eletrobras turns to Hogan Lovells for corruption probe
Olmedo helps convict Paraguay Express executives for currency exchange fraud
Equity appetite drives double real estate IPOs in Mexico
Lawyers raise doubts about Brazil's US$65 billion infrastructure concessions
Maria Clara Siqueira Castro: 22 January 1980 – 12 June 2015
Brazilian bar enters “new era” after liberalising pro bono
Rumy cements trademark victory before INDECOPI
LatAm sees new trend in EU migration
BlackRock acquires Mexican venture capital company Infraestructura Institucional
TozziniFreire strengthens compliance practice with lateral hire
Mexico’s Malpica Iturbe eyes Cancún with of counsel hire
Ferrere helps Tsakos defeat insurance claim after fishing vessel goes up in flames
Chilean FDI statute creates new agencies to bolster investment
BMA makes largest round of promotions in three years
Japan’s Fuji buys Brazil’s biggest chocolate maker
LATAM Airlines issues region’s first aircraft-backed EETCs
Chilean bar elects Alessandri’s managing partner as president
White & Case SC steers Mexican sugar mill tender
Mattos Filho adds tax partner from Campos Mello
Holland & Knight strengthens LatAm practice with Miami counsel hire
Baker & McKenzie steers dual Chilean sugar tenders
Petrobras budget cut wins backing from legal community
Lobo & Ibeas overturns Guapimirim oil spill fine
Renault-Nissan agree Mexico auto JV with Daimler
Allende & Brea's management changes hands
Machado Associados fortifies corporate practice with promotion
Curtis Mallet-Prevost, Davis Polk and Ritch Mueller steer Mexican hotelier refinancing
Panama’s AES taps global capital markets
Vance Center, Carey and Falabella launch female mentorship scheme
Mexico’s Avah Legal opens in three cities; increases partner count by four
Trench Rossi steers Votorantim’s return to the capital market
Chile’s food labelling law to be challenged on trade and IP grounds
Ferrere helps Schlumberger sign oil field agreement with Ecuador
Sierra-led consortium wins two oil blocks in Mexico’s disappointing round one tender
Panama’s Galindo Arias helps win recognition for indigenous language
Benites Forno steers Lima Metro Line 2 construction deal
SunEdison buys stake in Brazil’s Renova
Liberty Mutual buys Penta’s insurance business
São Paulo’s financial arm returns to the capital markets
Renewables developer SunEdison continues Brazilian buying spree
Argentina’s Globant retains regular counsel for follow-on offering
Digging deep
Cleary, Bruchou, Simpson Thacher and Marval steer Argentine real estate exchange offer
Corral Rosales defends Conecel from further antitrust sanctions
PeruRail obtains finance from BBVA Continental
Marval and Richards Cardinal in dairy deal
Three firms steer rare Uruguayan project bond issuance
Zang Bergel steers Argentine notes issuance
Galicia steers Banco Monex issuance
UK drinks company swallows Brazilian counterpart
Former Basham managing partner heads to boutique firm
ICBC and Banco Itaú hire Marval for electricity loan
Pemex retains Galicia for notes issuance
Air Products ups stake in leading LatAm gas company
AT&T becomes major LatAm player following DirecTV merger approval
Entre Ríos retains Cabanellas Etchebarne and Tavarone Rovelli for notes issuance
Doing the Deal: LATAM airlines issues region’s first aircraft-backed EETCs
Uruguayan lawyers praise US$12 billion infrastructure plan amid funding concerns
Olleros and McDermott Will to coordinate over Cuba
Souto Correa makes disputes hire from BMA
Godoy Córdoba makes double promotion in Colombia
Investment consortium buys VW’s stake in LeasePlan
Aluz Clean Energy obtains hydro finance in Peru
Creel Abogados boosts corporate practice with promotion
Mexico modifies bidding rules to reinvigorate offshore energy auctions
Mexico’s FIBRA Uno obtains US$850 million loan
Peru’s auction of controversial oil concession collapses for lack of interest
Echecopar, Ferrero, Simpson Thacher and Shearman in Peru service station loan
Mexico’s Arendal snaps up offshore assets in US bankruptcy auction
Marval makes triple associate promotion
Creel García-Cuéllar and Ritch Mueller help Julius Baer enter Mexico
ICBC provides Argentina’s YPF with pre-export finance
Salaverri Dellatorre and Bruchou reunite for Pampa Energía offering
Eletrobras legal troubles spread to US as pension fund files lawsuit
Mexico’s Femsa buys Chile’s biggest pharmacy chain
Faro Capital retains Hernández & Cía for retail shopping spree
APM and Compas sign JV to expand Cartagena port
Consortium helps open UK-El Salvador chamber of commerce
YPF and Inversor Petroquímico snap up Argentine petrochemical assets
Greenberg Traurig SC restocks with triple partner hire
Four firms steer Chilean solar plant financing
UAE-based private equity group buys Ecuadorean courier
Ecuadorean conglomerate sells Urupanel after restructuring
Mining value
Japan’s Sojitz invests in two Peruvian solar farms
Firms line up for Mexico’s next offshore oil tender
EDF secures financing for its first solar development in Chile
Prospecting for change
Payet Rey and Rodrigo Elías steer mining refinance
DR lawyers welcome overdue insolvency law, but predict hard work ahead
Demarest absorbs insurance boutique
Avah’s expansion continues with of counsel hire
Machado Meyer and Souza Cescon in Three Gorges hydro acquisition
Holman Fenwick recruits LatAm insurance partner from Chadbourne
US appeals court ruling delivers blow to Argentine holdouts
Four firms steer rare leveraged PE buyout in Peru
Tavarone Rovelli establishes trust programme
Rubio Leguía restocks partnership after Garrigues departures
Carey and PPU in Pacific Hydro refinance
Honorato Delaveau and Alessandri steer PE deal
Peruvian lawyers concerned over state oil block intervention
Brazilian entrepreneur snaps up local clothing line
Greenberg Traurig hires Casares Castelazo team
Mijares and Ritch Mueller in toll road refinance
Ferrere transfers oil block ownership in Ecuador
Grau and Rebaza Alcázar in Falabella loan
Latin Lawyer charity dinner breaks new fundraising record for pro bono
Mexico's Sigma completes second Ecuador acquisition
Six firms steer Colombia-Chile Team finance
Firms participate in Brazilian and Mexican leg of Bayer carve-out
M & M Bomchil and Errecondo González reunite for CGC offering
Marval steers local trust issuance
PE funds put premium on due diligence as LatAm corruption scandals spread
Paraguay cracks down on bearer shares as foreign pressure mounts
BTG Pactual snaps up real estate in Santiago
Ecuadorean economy at a crossroads
Counsel to PE in early stages of fund deployment is critical, agree lawyers
UK firms must offer more attractive pricing models to compete in Mexico
PE draws on local finance as US dollar soars
Ferrere steers Ecuadorean oil contract update
Tavarone Rovelli steers transmission line debt offering
Holland & Knight advises FIBRA Inn on new debt programme
OECD measures raise questions over PE tax structuring
Costa Rica’s Pacheco Coto shakes up governance
Four firms steer US$3 billion financing of Mexico City mega airport
UPDATE: Vinci Partners and PSP go shopping
Salaverri Dellatorre and Bruchou return for Pampa debt tap
PE’s institutional sponsors look outside LatAm for returns
Neuquén returns to the capital markets
Carey steers BCI-American Airlines credit card alliance
IFC ups its stake in Colombia’s infrastructure bank
From crisis comes opportunity for PE
Mattos Filho and Demarest help BRF set new CRA record
Five firms steer Brazilian auto loan receivables purchase
Galicia hires real estate GC from GE
Ferrere helps Easy Taxi Uruguay stave off predatory price claims
Quinn Emanuel helps Pimco press charges against Petrobras
AziLat snaps up offshore blocks from OGX
Gómez-Pinzón helps Credivalores get receivables financing
Teck signs multimillion-dollar streaming deal in Peru
British American Tobacco readies Souza Cruz for delisting
Felsberg makes third lateral hire of 2015
Petrobras divestment plan continues with Gaspetro sale
Beccar Varela and Pérez Alati in Tarjeta Naranja offering
Guatemala’s Morales must rely on public to tackle corruption
Panama’s GALA steers social housing project
Dow-Olin global chlorine merger closes in Argentina
Carey and three Baker offices in fish food loan
BLP wins pollution case, but criminal prosecution falters
Mattos Filho and Machado Meyer steer Warburg Pincus purchase
Freshfields and Galicia advise on AB InBev BMV listing
Rebaza and Miranda steer public pension deal
Alpha Credit guarantees programme with payroll loan credit
Marfrig hires regular counsel for quadruple cash tender
Milbank, Creel García-Cuéllar, Clifford Chance and Galicia steer Manzanillo port financing
Pérez Alati advises banks in Axion debt tap
Brazilian mega port obtains sprawling amortisation package
Tanoira Cassagne adds three practice areas with merger
Hoet Peláez founder made honorary professor at ULA
Errecondo González and Tanoira Cassagne in Mercedes-Benz offering
Ferrere and Vouga steer luxury real estate buy in Asunción
Sánchez Devanny opens Japan desk
González Calvillo and Creel García-Cuéllar in railway loan
Belgium's Ontex acquires Mexican hygiene company Mabe
Mexico’s Nacional Financiera in half a billion bonds issuance
Demarest helps Monsanto exit Brazil’s sugarcane market
Galicia advises on government agribusiness offering
Arias & Muñoz and BLP steer Havas-Tribu buy
First Honduran PPP obtains long-term finance
Glencore obtains Peruvian streaming deal as metal prices slump
TIM-Oi well-positioned to demand telecoms reform say lawyers
Private interest, public good
Give Mexico’s energy finance space time, say panellists
Televisa turns to regular counsel for US$1.2 billion offering
Colombia and Peru’s PPP schemes get vote of confidence
DR’s Wandelpool signs Pro Bono Declaration for the Americas
Ferrere helps Leoni set up shop in Paraguay
Mattos Filho helps Camargo Corrêa sell Havaianas maker
Santander Río retains Pérez Alati for debt tap
Dramatic double arrest marks turning point for Lava Jato
Argentina’s Tavarone Rovelli steers Electroingeniería offering
Appetite for renewables spreads across region
M & M Bomchil and Errecondo González return for energy offering
Abogadas MX launches debut conference promoting women in law
Currency risk casts pall over LatAm project finance
Pérez Alati advises underwriters for Pan American debt tap
Chile’s largest wind farm obtains project finance
Bruchou and Salaverri advise on energy offering
Regular counsel return for FIBRA Uno debt tap
LatAm political risk diminishes as governments embrace PPPs
Quickfood retains Pérez Alati for notes issuance
BTG sells prime assets after CEO arrest
Tavarone Rovelli steers Albanesi issuance
Campos Fialho and Dias Carneiro in supermarket buyout
Payet Rey successfully challenges labour arbitration
Hogan Lovells bolsters Monterrey office
Eight firms steer wind farm project finance in Mexico
Venezuelan opposition wins super-majority
Argentina’s Hipotecario taps international capital markets
Five firms behind Pampa ADS offering
Rodrigo Elías and Payet Rey steer port consortium loan
Schlumberger pours billions into Ecuadorean oil
Biosev obtains French development loan
Beccar Varela and Pérez Alati in Banco Ciudad issuance
Pérez Bustamante steers Codelco-Enami JV
Baker Botts exits Brazil
BTG sheds more assets as ex-CEO’s legal troubles deepen
Halembeck Barros and Pinheiro Neto steer DeVry buy
Ferrere opens second Ecuador office
TozziniFreire makes lateral hire and double promotion
Lima’s Jockey Plaza issues bonds
Genneia ownership divvied up in seven firm deal
Investors back Brazil’s NuBank
PE rescues distressed sugar mills in Brazil
US conveyor belt manufacturer enters Chile
Mexico’s Javer completes LatAm’s first IPO of 2016
Creel García-Cuéllar steers Riverstone CKD offering
Galicia and Jones Day land Mexico’s debut spectrum swap
Siqueira Castro recruits labour partner
Uruguayan competition authority liquidates juice case
Rebaza Alcázar absorbs white-collar crime boutique
Azevedo Sette steers software merger
Santamarina and Kuri Breña seal Mexican telecoms merger
Azevedo Sette and Trench Rossi steer Canadian bioscience buy
Holland & Knight launches FIBRA ADR programme
Axtel obtains funding ahead of Alestra tie-up
Haynes and Boone makes second Mexico hire in two months
Desyfin obtains Dutch development finance
Pérez Alati returns for Santander notes offering
Brookfield finances controversial Isagen privatisation
Licks Advogados steers Uber court victory in São Paulo
Mexican firms promote across commercial law
Japanese-Peruvian consortium ups stake in sugar company
Argentina edges closer to agreement with holdouts
Panama’s GALA signs PBDA
Galicia guides toll road refinancing
Inversor Petroquímica seals Petroken acquisition after YPF exits JV
Bichara recruits Machado Meyer litigation lawyer
Three firms steer loan restructuring in Brazil
Six firms in Mexican copper mine notes swap
TransUnion buys Colombian credit rating agency
Felsberg promotes restructuring lawyer
Miranda & Amado helps establish Peru’s first sustainable forestry fund
Arias & Muñoz adds second Panama partner in two months
Romero Pineda, Consortium and Skadden in Tropigas loan
Bufete Aguirre steers French solar investment in Bolivia
Latin Lawyer announces Diversity Initiative of the Year Award
Kimberly-Clark retains Santamarina for Escudo acquisition
Morales defeat good for democracy, say lawyers
Mexico agri fund retains Galicia for capital markets deal
Ferrere guides first upstream O&G offering in Ecuador
Estudio Echecopar helps launch nationwide e-money platform
Italian renewables company inks Peruvian solar finance
Mexico’s Crédito Real expands into Central America
Posadas & Vecino banking co-head leaves for Hughes & Hughes
García & Bodán targets Nicaraguan real estate
Familiar firms in Chubut securities offering
Arias & Muñoz nails down tax status under DR-CAFTA
UK food deliverer Just Eat expands into Mexico
Azevedo Sette advises Olympic Games tram consortium
Latin Lawyer’s 3rd Annual Regional Project Finance Summit
Pacific rift
Tauil & Chequer makes triple hire
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Costa Rica
Five firms steer nine-figure Chilean grid finance deal
Johnson & Johnson agrees Brazilian babycare deal
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: El Salvador
Bruchou and Zang Bergel in Argentine mine acquisition
Estudio O'Farrell and Tanoira Cassagne return for YPF debt tap
Nine firms drive first 4G finance in Colombia
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Honduras
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Guatemala
Cervantes Sainz, Mijares and Santamarina in ICA billion-dollar restructuring
Souza Cescon behind Rio metro notes offering
PPV closes Caterpillar sale in Uruguay
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Uruguay
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Venezuela
LatinAlliance Nicaragua behind Hyatt hotel opening in Managua
TozziniFreire, Stocche Forbes and Mattos Filho steer PE pharma deal
Doing the Deal: Libra pre-salt drill vessel financing
Stocche Forbes, Lang, Morgan Lewis and Lefosse in IT tie-up
Sigma’s double renewables purchase in Peru draws nine firms
LatinAlliance behind Salvadorean real estate credit line
Maduro may not last the year, say lawyers
Dias Carneiro, Stocche Forbes and Souza Cescon close wind financing
Televisa beats off IFT probe and buys cable provider
Benites Forno helps jail football thugs for murder
GALA reduces billion dollar claim to 0.2 per cent of original fine
Regular counsel in Colombian euro offering
YPF issues oversubscribed billion dollar bonds
Peñarol hires Ferrere to advise on new football stadium
Beccar Varela opens in Tigre and re-hires PE partner
Argentine real estate developer IRSA taps global markets
Tavarone and Estudio D’hers behind Albanesi tie-up
Hughes Hubbard targets compliance with Brazilian cooperation agreement
Adecoagro makes secondary offering on NYSE
Mexican drill rigs obtain finance despite oil price
Mattos Engelberg continues hiring spree
Argentine peer-to-peer lender gets multilateral backing
BLP sets up shop in Nicaraguan tourist hotspot
Guatemala’s Mayora & Mayora begins expansion in Honduras
TozziniFreire and Pinheiro Guimarães in agribusiness offering
International lithium producers ink Argentine JV
Mattos Filho promotes six to partnership
Cuatrecasas strengthens LatAm desk with promotion
Miranda & Amado promotes corporate counsel to partner
Japan’s IHI exits Brazilian ship maker
Vinci enters DR in airport mega deal
Machado Meyer leads Vivo reorganisation after GVT buy
Souza Cescon and Mattos Filho help PE fund delist Brazilian care provider
McDonald’s main Brazil franchise obtains loan backed by derivatives
Brazil’s Votorantim increases stake in Peruvian mining company
Lobo & de Rizzo targets tax and litigation with latest partner additions
Simpson Thacher, Zang Bergel, Davis Polk and Salaverri Dellatorre in IRSA cash tender
Forsyth and De Bracamonte steer Peruvian agribusiness loan
Amprimo & Flury wins constitutional court victory in Peru
Brigard and Gómez-Pinzón agree pharma tie-up
Estudio O'Farrell and Tanoira Cassagne in YPF local offering
Four firms steer US solar buy in Uruguay
Tahoe obtains mining loan in Peru
Kirkland & Ellis holds fundraiser for Honduran schools
Chavez Vargas and Mijares guide cable car loan
Firms back report slamming criminal defamation laws
Coke bottler hires Salaverri Dellatorre for sugar mill purchase
Demarest helps MRS renegotiate debt with over 2,000 bondholders
Cuba Libre
Ritch Mueller and Galicia guide Falabella-Soriana JV
Five firms steer FHipo follow-on offering
Holland & Knight Bogotá expansion drive continues
Salaverri Dellatorre and Bruchou in Petrolera Pampa offering
De Luca Derenusson promotes associate to head new infrastructure practice
Thomson Reuters Foundation pro bono survey open for submissions
Six firms agree Isagen loan amendment
Mars buys Mexico’s Conejos chocolate maker
Three firms steer Sigma billion-dollar offering
MMK spin-off Kestener Granja opens for business
Embattled BTG parts with more assets
Martens Abogados hires associates from Galicia and Mijares
Australia’s Amcor in multijurisdictional LatAm acquisition
Nafin completes 5 billion Mexican peso offering
Four firms help Chilean PPP hospital obtain finance
Uruguay’s Jiménez de Aréchaga signs PBDA
Canadian miner completes restructuring with Brazilian sale
BNDES funds Colombian company for the first time
Making Argentine infrastructure bankable
Latin Lawyer M&A league tables: Mexico
BFM&L and Tanoira Cassagne steer Medanito offering
Marval recruits Total GC for energy practice
Brons & Salas and Marval guide Bimbo purchase in Argentina
Chile’s BCI completes US$400 million rights offering
Latin Lawyer M&A League Tables: International
Tanoira Cassagne helps establish Neuquén financial trust
Davis Polk, DLA, Gómez-Pinzón and Simpson Thacher in Banco de Bogotá offering
Dentons completes merger with Mexican and Colombian firms
Carey makes triple partner promotion
Peruvian government hires Rebaza Alcázar for Pan American Games
Colombian bank buys local credit card business from Chilean retailer Ripley
IFC grants Argentine refiner eight-year loan
Uruguayan court rejects public information request in Zamin case
Souza Berger and Azevedo Sette steer Brazil bank buy
Mexican biotech acquires local veterinary products maker
PPU and Holland & Knight guide Colombia hospital buy
Sáenz & Asociados opens in Nicaragua
Panama container terminal ties up secured loan
An interview with Joy Gallup
Basham makes seven new partners
Zang Bergel returns for Banco Hipotecario offering
PPU’s Colombian arm helps Brookfield up stake in Isagen
NYSBA’s LatAm arm calls for regionwide ethics guidance
Uruguayan mink farm gets Canadian funding
Cabanellas Etchebarne behind Chaco province notes offering
Ecuador rising: legal market responds to earthquake
Basham Ringe and García Velasco in Mexican auto-parts deal
Miranda & Amado strengthens banking and finance arm
Neuquén offers oil-backed securities
Machado Meyer and Manassero Campello in PE logistics grab
Peruvian agribusiness gets COFIDE and Santander finance
Mexico’s FHipo buys FOVISSSTE loan portfolios
Consortium becomes second to open in San Juan del Sur this year
Hogan Lovells arbitration lawyer heads to Creel García-Cuéllar
Familiar firm names in Fibra Uno debt tap
Olaechea wins trademark battle for Honda
Guerra Salazar and Muñiz Ramírez steer El Pueblo hotel acquisition
PDVSA default will be messy and protracted
Petrobras issues securities worth US$6.75 billion
Mattos Filho poaches Machado Meyer labour head
US private equity fund adds telecoms towers to Chilean portfolio
BMA and Gordon Law helps pilot Airbus-Uber helicopter scheme in São Paulo
Ferrere steers Argentine real estate investment in Bolivia
Judges should take a less procedural approach to restructuring, says top São Paulo judge
First Mexican toll road PPP awarded under amended law
Machado Meyer recruits Lobo & de Rizzo labour head
Major Colombian toll road obtains cross-border finance
Dover buys Brazilian petrol pump assets from US PE
Petrolera Pampa retains Salaverri Dellatorre for financing deal
Posse Herrera finalises Ecopetrol share sale
Arias & Muñoz resumes expansion drive in Panama with BICSA hire
Chilean fish food supplier becomes party to salmon farmer loan after debt restructuring
Kuri Breña helps Mexican microfinance institution overcome securitisation requirements
Pérez Alati steers Cencosud trust offering
Allende & Brea guides off-plan industrial park sale
Nuevo León state looks to Hogan Lovells for credit line
Telles & Asociados obtains finance for Salvadorean pharma plant
Zelle LLP opens insurance practice in Miami, looks to LatAm
Muñiz Ramírez and Echecopar in Engie bond offering
Santander turns to Kuri Breña for water treatment loan
Arrival of D'Empaire Reyna founder at Araquereyna a “natural evolution”
Brazil’s bankruptcy law must evolve further as restructuring cases skyrocket
What does Brexit mean for Latin America?
San Roque issues notes after oligopoly rules relaxed
Canadian pension funds acquire stake in Mexico’s Arco Norte motorway
Mattos Filho makes double lateral hire in Rio
Pinheiro Neto behind privatisation of Goiás power company
Buenos Aires taps global capital markets
Pacific Alliance boutiques establish disputes referral scheme
Felsberg and Veirano steer Colombo’s reorganisation
Neoen finances Salvadorean solar plant
Rebaza Alcázar opens practice group for Peru’s super rich
Australia’s Laguna buys Belgian-owned mine in Chile
Kimberly-Clark adds to Mexico portfolio
Morales & Besa recruits Corp Group GC
Lazo De Romaña and Muñiz return for Edelnor debt tap
Demarest and Mattos Filho return for agribusiness offering
Speakers confirmed for Latin Lawyer Tax Summit
Four firms behind Qatar Airways LATAM entry
Enagás ups stake in Chilean regasification plant
GCM adds to partnership
Trench Rossi and Pinheiro Guimarães behind CRA debt tap
Cablevisión Argentina issues debt worth US$500 million
Garrigues and Rodrigo Elías steer Peruvian clinic refinance
Terra obtains bridge loan for Citigroup El Salvador acquisition
World’s largest hotel merger cleared in the Americas
Aguilar Castillo's Nicaragua focus continues with latest hire
Chávez Vargas returns for Banco Actinver offering
Mattos Filho and Lefosse behind logistics company issuance
Payet Rey helps Luz del Sur offer bonds
Salta returns to global capital markets after four-year absence
Colombian PE group targets Peru
ENAP’s Argentine arm finances ArPetrol acquisition
Linklaters and Campos Mello steer Banco do Brasil cash tender
González Calvillo closes Mexican leg of global PE acquisition
Arent Fox and Rivadeneira Colombara behind landmark same-sex marriage win in Chile
Lefosse makes second hire in the space of a month
TozziniFreire and Lefosse complete CRA offering
Ferrere launches third Bolivia office
Four firms help put Uruguay’s LNG ambitions back on track
Magnesita sells off Brazilian mining assets
Souza Cescon deepens disputes offer with latest hire
Vale’s Aliança completes debt tap
Plastics recycler obtains US$970 million refinancing package
Petrobras makes its largest-ever oil field sale to Statoil
Chinese meatpacker adds to Uruguay portfolio
Seven firms steer multi-jurisdictional PE purchase
Hoet Peláez expands partnership
Vinci drives deeper into LatAm with Peru toll road deal
ENAP bond offering gets super low interest rate
Rodrigo Elías and Payet Rey in pharma loan
Azevedo Sette and Freitas Leite behind dairy tie-up
Chubut issues hydrocarbon-backed securities
Ferrere steers Uber win after union complaint backfires
Monsanto retains Demarest for agribusiness JV
Bulló and Jones Day help Argentina offer satellite services in US
PPU helps Colombia strip unused accounts for student funding
Mexico’s Liverpool makes second billion-dollar acquisition of 2016
LatinAlliance behind San Salvador real estate financing
Machado Meyer and Mattos Filho steer waterway financing
Bancomext returns to the capital markets
Machado Meyer directs Brasil Pharma issuance
Azevedo Sette and Nasser help defeat antidumping allegations
Colombia’s Grupo Argos expands in US
Bain Capital exits car parts maker in Mexico
Consortium advises banks as Honduras cracks down on money laundering
Santander buys Brazilian auto loan portfolio from Peugeot maker PSA
Errecondo González and Pérez Alati behind BICE’s 1 billion peso offerings
Rising demand for luxury travel drives Costa Rica resort purchase
Ferrere strengthens presence in Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay
Deutsche Bank begins LatAm exit in Argentina
Lawyers slam coup allegations after Rousseff’s impeachment
Codelco hires Carey for capital markets return
DR’s Medina Garrigó signs Pro Bono Declaration for the Americas
Kuri Breña executes AB&C Leasing issuance
Lefosse and Motta Fernandes Rocha steer Daycoval share offer
Bankruptcy in Brazil
Creel García-Cuéllar behind FHipo covered bond offer
Machado Meyer and Mattos Filho complete fertiliser company buyout
Honduran solar complex gets project finance
Better terms, but fewer bidders for Mexico’s next onshore auction?
Neuquén issues more than a billion pesos in debt
Miranda & Amado produces UN-backed Peruvian disability inclusion guide
González Calvillo and DRB close Mexico water tie-up
Bragard & Durán leads agribusiness trust offering
PE-backed Atento buys debt collector
BLP opens in Guatemala with three new partners
Grupo NC takes control of RBS’ Santa Catarina branch
Antioquia 4G toll road gets dual currency finance
Bolivia’s Indacochea promotes labour lawyer
Tauil & Chequer launches Brasília office with ex-Rousseff attorney general
Zang Bergel and Pérez Alati behind IRSA debt tap
Kasznar Leonardos expands life sciences offering with regulatory hire
Consortium to build nine billion peso desalination plant in Baja California
Souza Cescon and Machado Meyer in 2.8 billion reais motorway finance
Shearman’s LatAm practice hires from Credit Suisse
Galicia behind Grupo Bimbo debt tap
McDonalds acquires Ovomaltine brand
Brazilian privatisations could face financing difficulties
Pérez Alati behind Santander Río issuance
Santamarina y Steta steers Invex debt offering
PPU helps Pfizer close Colombian leg of AstraZeneca antibiotics tie-up
New Brazilian firm banks on capital markets resurgence
Garrigues behind Colombian cement loan
Mexico City's new airport issues green bonds worth US$2 billion
Campos Mello poaches from BMA and TozziniFreire
Peixe Urbano wins STJ trademark ruling, but defendant vows to appeal
Petrobras ramps up divestment plan with huge US$5.2 billion pipeline sale
Dias Carneiro hires tax partner as government reform looms large
Ecuador after the boom
Mexico’s Unifin retains familiar counsel for debt tap
Chile’s Barros Letelier & González splits three ways
Pérez Alati behind Cencosud securities issuance
Mexican PE fund buys Carl's Jr franchisee
Carlos Mello leaves Machado Meyer
Colpatria and Cencosud renew partnership in Colombia
Coca-Cola Femsa doubles down on Brazil with Vonpar buy
Santiago metro retains Guerrero Olivos for bond offering
Ex-Lazo De Romaña partner named head of Indecopi
Santos cannot achieve peace deal without public support, say lawyers
Jones Day reveals LatAm compliance ambitions with latest hire
Instituto Pro Bono head urges Brazilian firms to take on riskier cases
Plaintiffs vow to appeal Venezuela expropriation claim in Florida
John Deere taps Argentine debt market
Santamarina y Steta mothballs Tijuana office
Lefosse makes third lateral hire of 2016
Arbe Abogados steers bond offering by Peru’s Los Portales
BRF taps debt market ahead of rumoured IPO
Arent Fox helps Peruvian coop vacate arbitral award
Brookfield completes acquisition of Isagen
Souto Correa recruits De Vivo Whitaker’s arbitration head
Chavez Vargas steers Baja California’s first PPP financing
Peru completes mega 10 billion sol debt tap
Pellerano and Headrick Rizik in DR financial services tie-up
Advent International buys agri-chemical company in Mexico
Brazil-UK trade mission seeks to assuage investor concerns
PE finances Central American clothes maker acquisition
Johnson’s US$3.9 billion Tyco tie-up cleared in Mexico
Greenberg Traurig eyes Mexico with energy partner hire
Chile’s Santiago Solar obtains project finance
PE-backed fund first to issue Mexico’s newest asset class
Peru’s Muñiz Ramírez launches mobile app
Tanoira Cassagne guides auto loan company debt tap
Creel García-Cuéllar and Galicia behind Mexico’s first FIBRA E offering
Peruvian beverage maker in sprawling multi-jurisdictional financing
Berkemeyer behind Paraguay’s first PPP
Italian stationery company pledges Mexican assets in refinancing
Distressed Brazilian ceramics maker finds Austrian buyer
Olaechea clears university of alleged data privacy breaches
Citi exits retail banking in Argentina and Brazil
Peru’s Lazo De Romaña merges with white-collar crime boutique
Arias & Muñoz hires from García & Bodán in Guatemala
GAARs lack legal clarity in LatAm
Chavez Vargas steers Yucatán public security financing
Kuri Breña behind Liquid Capital’s debt tap
Berkemeyer behind Paraguayan livestock trust
Trafigura obtains mining finance in Peru
Argentine oil company CGC offers global notes
Global tax exchange efforts “drain” in-house resources
Andrews Kurth and Dias Carneiro steer IADB loan
US firms see Mexico opportunities despite Trump win
Bosch and Tavarone agree Argentine utilities financing
BMA and Machado Meyer in port debentures issue
BEPS-style tax reform casts shadow over LatAm M&A market
Ferrere chooses Guayaquil for third Ecuador office
Demarest and Pinheiro Neto steer Monsanto CRA offering
Brahma’s Ambev buys Kirin bottling plant
Aninat Schwencke and Bofill Mir in CAP bond offer
Licks and Pereira Neto in São Paulo Uber injunction
Lawyers in the firing line post-Panama Papers
Southern Cross Mexico affiliate issues CKDs
Freshfields, Clifford Chance and Souza Cescon in Cosan-Shell JV amendment
Brazil risks double taxation in post-BEPs era
Visa expands in Colombia with PPU
Panama Papers committee releases definitive findings
Stocche Forbes and Lefosse guide Americanas securities offer
Azevedo Sette and Souza Cescon in hospital buy
Dentons Muñoz merger confirmed
Trench Rossi compliance partners leave to open boutique
Samuel García-Cuéllar: 20 May 1942 – 15 November 2016
Hilton Princess chain restructures loan
Endesa merges eight subsidiaries with Morales & Besa
Unilever tenders US$14 million Paraguayan distribution centre
Three firms behind Petrobras-Total alliance
BAZ/DLA helps Uber quash constitutional appeal by ex-contractor
BLP adds second partner in El Salvador
Paraguay’s second PPP award postponed
García & Bodán opens third Nicaragua office; eyes Costa Rica
Vella Pugliese makes double lateral hire
Chavez Vargas and Galicia behind Invex credit card buy
Ritch Mueller opens tax practice with double lateral hire
Pérez Alati guides Quickfood share offer
OPIC approves threshold-breaking loan to Açu
Payet Rey and Rodrigo Elías in Peru’s first major PE exit of 2017
Norton Rose Fulbright and Chadbourne in late-stage merger talks
PPU and Rebaza in real estate offering
Five firms behind Raízen notes offering
Santiago metro makes US$500 million notes issue
Rebaza Alcázar helps JP Morgan become first Peruvian investment bank
PAGBAM behind Argentine wind farm PPA
LatinAlliance hires Romero Pineda’s corporate practice head
Central American firms bet on Costa Rica
AerCap hires Arias to repossess aircraft
Brazilian port operator Libra restructures debts
Abengoa restructuring draws to a close in Peru
Fertilizantes Heringer gets shareholder financing
EDF enters LatAm nuclear power sector
Heineken buys Kirin assets in Brazil
Vale makes biggest governance overhaul since privatisation
Tavarone and BFM&L in thermoelectric offer
Dentons Muñoz consolidates ahead of further expansion
Carlyle issues debt to fund Atotech buy
Iberdrola in Brazilian wind farm buyout
El Salvador issues bonds as debt load rises
Araquereyna banks on Venezuelan energy liberalisation with hire
Jones Day’s new Mexico office head sets out priorities
PDG files for judicial restructuring with over 500 subsidiaries
Two firms in Paraguay’s first PPP signing
QIL adds partners amid growing regionalisation
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Bolivia
AvaLerroux to represent clients on Cuban soil
Baker McKenzie hires new M&A head in Guadalajara
Arenales & Skinner-Klée founder starts at BLP
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Ecuador
Spanish firms reveal LatAm earnings for the first time
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: El Salvador
Mattos Filho launches white-collar crime practice
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Guatemala
Doing the deal: Paraguay's first PPP
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Honduras
Arias increases Guatemala headcount with lateral hire
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Nicaragua
Consortium behind El Salvador’s new trade promotion branding
Pérez Alati assists Cencosud in new trust offering
Rodrigo Elías recruits former SUNAT boss to open transfer pricing company
Latin Lawyer 250 country by country: Venezuela
Guerrero Olivos absorbs boutique and teases transfer pricing company launch
Two firms star in major Costa Rican real estate deal
China makes record investment in Argentina’s mining sector
Uruguay’s Guyer behind CVU's record-breaking debt programme
Demarest behind real estate debt offer
Pemex sells infrastructure capacity for the first time
Tanoira Cassagne returns for Balanz issuance
Dentons reveals Vella Pugliese tie-up in Brazil
Larraín y Asociados behind Sacyr credit line
Tauil & Chequer recruits IP counsel amid rising demand
Sacyr rejigs Ruta del Limarí debt load in Chile
Top speakers confirmed for Latin Lawyer restructuring conference
Creel García-Cuéllar hire confirms transfer pricing trend
Tavarone guides Córdoba debt tap
PPU agrees Canadian export financing in Chile
Central American firms launch regional alliance
Trump may be good for LatAm's energy space
Mijares, Nader and Galicia in real estate financing
Mexico’s consul general to NYC to keynote Latin Lawyer restructuring event
BMA bumper partner promotions continue in 2017
Stable oil prices bode well for O&G project finance
Peru’s Gallo Barrios strengthens tax practice
Mexico’s Kaye Trueba poaches EY tax manager
Demarest adds eighteenth partner to its M&A team
Hernández & Cía enlists EY partner as OECD-driven tax hires continue
Lawyers split on LatAm's regulatory attractiveness for O&G
Mexico’s EC Legal merges with Rubio Villegas
Pinheiro Neto and Mattos Filho in CRA sugar offering
Mexican PE fund gets stake in B2B money transfer company
Stocche Forbes and TozziniFreire in Raízen debt tap
Guatemala’s Mayora & Mayora enters El Salvador
Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires taps debt markets
Argentine O&G developer Capex taps debt markets
Mexico’s downstream opportunities in retail, not refining, say panellists
Pérez Alati behind YPF syndicated credit line
Deutsche Bank makes further divestments in Mexico
BanBajío defies Mexican political uncertainty with IPO
O&G a “huge regulatory challenge,” says Mexican competition commissioner
BMA and Mattos Filho behind latest UBS Brazilian acquisition
Restructuring: First-class upgrades
Peru’s GyM divests in bulk after Odebrecht pipeline deal collapse
Deal of the year 2016
Chile’s La Polar finally released from bankruptcy protection
Better bidding procedures lure investors to Mexico’s round 2 auction
Chilean firms look in-house for lateral hires
Central American firms retrench amid fast-paced regional change
Norton Rose Fulbright and Chadbourne confirm merger
Baker McKenzie promotes across LatAm
Arias & Muñoz breakaway firm Dentons Muñoz hires second partner in Guatemala
Ogier promotes LatAm investment fund specialist
Peru’s GyM completes restructuring after Odebrecht pipeline fallout
Estuardo Mata Palmieri: 14 April 1975 – 10 June 2017
Familiar names in Honduran Terra financing
Veirano expansion continues with double lateral hire
Consortium becomes largest Costa Rican firm and challenges the Big Four
TozziniFreire hires oil and gas head
PNM adds disputes and telecoms partners
Souza Cescon bolsters its labour and administrative law practices
Consortium hires HP in-house for new managing director role
Tinoco Travieso signs alliance with Girán Abogados
Mundie recruits Bichara's trade partners
Construction group makes rare project bonds issuance in Paraguay
Senior lawyers leave Ecuador's Bustamante & Bustamante
Chadbourne's NYC LatAm group pulls out of Norton Rose merger
Banco de América Central gets first international syndicated credit line
Another Chadbourne partner leaves Norton Rose tie-up
Peru's GyM continues financial restructuring
DLA's Mexican arm concludes merger with tax boutique
More Peruvian firms bolster compliance as Brazil's corruption scandal spreads
An intangible asset
Sidley Austin eyes LatAm O&G potential with double hire
Marval makes double promotion
Nicaragua's Grupo Pellas hires Consortium for bank acquisition
BMA hires environmental boss ahead of important decree
Mexico first
LatinAlliance returns for Hyatt opening in Guatemala
Bolivia's largest firm adds first non-family partners
Vieira Rezende founder to lead Brazil's securities regulator
Another senior partner leaves Muñiz
Programme for Latin Lawyer 2nd Annual Tax Summit now online
BAZ/DLA Piper hires in-house lawyer for corporate counsel role
BLP's Managua branch makes first senior hire
Top speakers confirmed for Latin Lawyer’s Tax Summit
Shearman hires Itaú lawyer for São Paulo office
Pacheco Coto shakes up Central America with EY tie-up
Garrigues’ Bogotá office makes New York M&A counsel hire
Latin Lawyer tax summit gets CLE accreditation
Garrigues doubles down on LatAm with partner promotions
United we stand, divided we fall
Alessandri adds infrastructure practice with triple partner hire
Pacheco Coto loses lawyers in EY transition
Germán Vecino: 28 November 1937 – 15 December 2017
BAZ/DLA Piper merges with NLD in Chile
Brazil’s Rolim de Mello shakes up the market with prominent laterals
Respectful collaboration earns more M&A referral work, agree speakers
Baker McKenzie’s Bogotá office adds third partner in two months
Greenberg Traurig eyes Mexican real estate with lateral hires
Vieira Rezende hires compliance in-house counsel from Globo
New Affinitas chair confident about alliance’s future
Clifford Chance predicts more LatAm investment with associate promotion
Partner returns to Siqueira Castro after less than a year at Felsberg
Lobo & Ibeas lawyers go their separate ways
Garrigues and Uría Menéndez publish LatAm revenue figures
Colombian anti-dumping duties spark tensions with Chile
Demarest helps Qatar Petroleum enter Brazil’s O&G market
Rebaza behind Peru’s latest real estate investment trust
Pemex is back in the black, but PSCs are unpopular, agree speakers
Four firms in Raízen-Shell mega deal
Pinheiro Neto wins 1 billion reais goodwill tax amortisation case
Clyde & Co steers first Mexican O&G floating pledge agreement
Felsberg steers major Brazilian restructuring
Lobo & Lira announces official opening
Levy & Salomão appoints new partner
DR’s insolvency laws put to the test with flag carrier restructuring
Mattos Filho hires two more partners
Machado Meyer promotes five as Brazilian partner appointments surge
Three firms behind Uruguay’s latest bond issuance
Venezuelan IP boutique bucks market trends and absorbs counterpart
Sfera commits to regionalisation with El Salvador and Nicaragua openings
Warde hires ex director-general of Brazil’s federal police
Labour law network adds LL250 firms in Argentina and Chile
Top speakers confirmed for Latin Lawyer - GRR 3rd restructuring summit
Three more firms confirm role in Brazil’s latest O&G auction
Morgan & Morgan partner re-elected maritime law association chair
Hogan Lovells appoints board members with LatAm experience
Market reputation and US links important for GCs, agree panellists
Skadden creates new LatAm chair positions
Norton Rose NY office recruits from Mayer Brown
Hogan Lovells closes Caracas office
Private equity CEO to keynote Latin Lawyer restructuring summit
TozziniFreire expands its life science practice
Honorato Delaveau hires GC from investment manager
One week left to get tickets for Latin Lawyer's restructuring summit
Souto Correa secures injunction against Brazilian lorry strike
López Obrador’s landslide victory leaves Mexican lawyers unfazed
EY Law recruits from BDS in Costa Rica
Lefosse announces double lateral hire
White & Case’s LatAm head reaches for the top
Hogan Lovells picks Miguel Zaldivar to head Asia-Pacific division
Hogan Lovells to shut Rio office and double down on São Paulo
Chilean airline beats US IP suit
Demarest makes third hire in two months
FibraHotel retains Nader Hayaux for 1 billion Mexican peso loan
Brazilian wind farm developer signs Hong Kong turbine deal
Familiar firms in DR’s latest sovereign offering
Boeing and Embraer sign multibillion dollar JV
DLA Piper Chile partner leaves for Piñera administration
Brazilian shipbuilder edges closer to restructuring
Vieira Rezende adds its fourth partner of 2018
DLA Piper seals deal with Cabanellas Etchebarne to enter Argentina
Programme for Latin Lawyer 3rd Annual Tax event now online
Mundie wins anti-dumping case in Brazil
Top Colombian court rules mine does not owe local communities compensation
Consortium launches business centre in Honduras
Bufete Aguirre completes merger with Quintanilla Soria in Bolivia
New real estate trust vehicle debuts in Peru
UK wants closer trade links with Mexico post Brexit, hear Lex Mex delegates
Real estate trust snaps up PE-owned data centres in Brazil
SV Law recruits Veirano associate as partner
Baker McKenzie hires SAT official as Mexico tax partner
Aninat Schwencke promotes
Vieira Rezende continues to expand its partnership
DLA Piper Chile recruits competition boss as counsel
Galicia creates labour practice as AMLO reforms loom
Three firms star in multiple Brazilian EPC and financing deals
Florida University professor to keynote Latin Lawyer 3rd Annual Tax summit
Big Four accountancies join multinational companies at Latin Lawyer 3rd Annual Tax
Ferrere launches maternity mentorship programme
Transfer-pricing panel at LL Tax Summit gets senior in-house speakers
Last chance to get early-rate tickets for LL Tax Summit
