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Peru will pay individual whistle-blowers
14 September 2018
Peru’s competition authority has announced it will offer financial rewards to individual whistle-blowers where the information leads to the successful detection and punishment of a cartel.
Programme for Latin Lawyer 3rd Annual Tax event now online
04 September 2018
The complete programme for Latin Lawyer's 3rd Annual Tax conference has been announced.
Peruvian company gets first LatAm greenfield mine financing of 2018
30 August 2018
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and London and Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados in Lima have helped Peruvian mining company Marcobre obtain an international syndicated loan worth US$900 million from 16 banks for the development of its Mina Justa copper project.
Lima’s Línea 2 loan keeps project on track
30 August 2018
Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados has helped Banco Santander grant a US$25 million loan to the concessionaire behind Lima’s Línea 2 metro project for the capital city’s transport line that has already faced several setbacks.
Peru’s Amprimo & Flury hires senior Estudio Echecopar partner
29 August 2018
Eduardo Barboza has left Estudio Echecopar - member firm of Baker McKenzie International after nearly 30 years to lead Amprimo & Flury Abogados’ civil and contractual division.
Grupo Energía Bogotá makes dual-track equity offering
24 August 2018
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York, Posse Herrera Ruiz in Bogotá and Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie International in Lima have helped Colombia’s public electricity transmission company Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) and the district of Bogotá make a public offering of GEB shares worth 1.925 billion Colombian pesos (US$647.3 million).
Peruvian refinery gets loan worth US$100 million
22 August 2018
Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker & McKenzie International in Lima has advised Credicorp Capital and Banco de Crédito del Perú in a US$100 million project finance loan to oil refinery Refinería la Pampilla.
Muñiz Olaya and PPU steer debt tender offer in Peru
21 August 2018
Muñiz, Olaya, Meléndez, Castro, Ono & Herrera has helped local hotel operator Inversiones La Rioja repurchase previously issued debt worth US$42 million through a tender offer.
Peru’s largest steel product maker launches tender to buy counterpart
17 August 2018
Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados has helped steel product producer and distributor Corporacion Aceros Arequipa launch a US$25 million takeover bid for the remaining shares it does not own in local counterpart Comasa.
LatAm issuers raise US$3.1 billion in equity in June
10 August 2018
Information gathered by Latin Lawyer shows Brazilian firms Lefosse Advogados and Pinheiro Neto Advogados and international law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP advised on the most Latin American equity issuances in June.