Industry: Natural Resources

A recent decision to dismiss evidence in the bribery case against the former chief executive of Mexico’s state oil company Pemex has drawn the ire of local prosecutors.

28 September 2023

Salaverri, Burgio & Wetzler Malbrán have helped Argentina’s Pampa Energía issue US$72 million worth of notes to expand their operations in Vaca Muerta.

28 September 2023

Womble Bond Dickinson has hired two partners from Hogan Lovells LLP in its global energy and natural resources team, as the firm bets on an uptick of work in Latin America’s rare minerals sector.

27 September 2023

A pair of Guatemalan renewable energy investors are pursuing a Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) claim against Honduras, as a group of US claimants drop their bid to revive a case against Nicaragua under the same free trade agreement.

26 September 2023

Saudi Arabian energy company Aramco has hired five White & Case LLP offices and Guerrero Olivos in Santiago to buy Chilean fuel distributor Esmax from Latin America-focused private equity fund Southern Cross Group.

25 September 2023

Central American firm Mayora & Mayora has added a third office in Honduras by opening a new outpost on the island of Roatán.

25 September 2023

The Dutch subsidiary of Brazilian petrochemicals giant Braskem has hired two Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP offices and Mattos Filho in São Paulo to issue US$850 million worth of notes.

20 September 2023

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York and Carey in Santiago have helped Chilean copper company Codelco raise US$2 billion in a debt issuance.

18 September 2023

Bolivia says it has been ordered to pay nearly US$254 million to Swiss commodities trader Glencore in an investment treaty claim over the nationalisation of tin and zinc mining assets.

14 September 2023

Burford Capital says the latest ruling in a US lawsuit it is financing against Argentina means the state will have to pay around US$16 billion for nationalising oil and gas operator YPF.

13 September 2023