Sweden’s Assa Abloy snaps up assets in Costa Rica

Swedish lock manufacturer Assa Abloy has hired Linklaters in New York and Aguilar Castillo Love (Costa Rica) to acquire Costa Rican accessories producer Olimpia Hardware.

Firms advise on refinancing for Central America’s largest hydro dam

Clifford Chance LLP in Washington, DC and BLP (Costa Rica) have advised lenders backing Central America’s largest hydroelectric river dam on a US$800 million refinancing of their credit

Latin Lawyer Elite survey 2019

For a law firm to be more than a short-lived success, it must be able to guarantee its survival with each handover between different generations of partners. The managing partners of Elite firms reveal how they prepare ahead of time to contend with the reality of partner succession.

Exposing the gap

For the past two years, many UK law firms have been compelled to publicly disclose the difference between what they pay male and female lawyers. Gender pay gap reporting can be a blunt instrument, but acknowledging a problem is the first step to solving it. We consider the implications for Latin America’s legal market.