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Alcogal and Morgan & Morgan convene for Argos sale
12 September 2016
Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee has helped Colombian construction company Cementos Argos sell a 20 per cent stake in its Panamanian subsidiary to real estate investor Grupo Provivienda.
Locks open on fourth Panama Canal arbitration
16 August 2016
Adjudicators appointed at the outset of a project to expand the Panama Canal have rejected a US$99 million cost overrun claim, paving the way for a potential fourth ICC arbitration arising from it.
Alemán Cordero, ARIFA, Milbank and Shearman close Tocumen bond offer
02 June 2016
Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee and Shearman & Sterling LLP’s New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC, offices have helped Panama’s Tocumen International Airport issue US$575 million worth of secured bonds, in what is believed to be the largest-ever cross-border issuance by a Panamanian government-owned entity.
Mexico’s Crédito Real expands into Central America
04 March 2016
BLP in San José and Managua, Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee in Panama City and Jones Day in Miami and New York have helped Mexican consumer loan provider Crédito Real acquire a 70 per cent stake in Central American counterpart Instacredit.
Romero Pineda, Consortium and Skadden in Tropigas loan
24 February 2016
Panamanian liquefied gas distributor Tropigas has hired Romero Pineda & Asociados in San Salvador to obtain a US$40 million loan to fund the construction of a transport ship and expand a maritime terminal at the southeastern Salvadorean port of La Unión.
Rebaza helps La Virgen refinance debt
28 January 2016
Brazilian-Peruvian hydropower plant developer La Virgen has called on Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas Abogados Financieros to obtain a US$50 million loan from the Cayman Islands branch of Banco Santander Brasil.
Citi divests in El Salvador
14 January 2016
Arias & Muñoz (El Salvador), Telles & Asociados in San Salvador and Melara & Asociados in Tegucigalpa have helped Honduras’ Grupo Terra buy Citigroup’s consumer and commercial banking businesses in El Salvador.
Veirano, TozziniFreire and Machado Meyer on board for Smurfit Kappa’s Brazilian arrival
08 January 2016
Veirano Advogados has helped Smurfit Kappa, Europe’s largest paper packaging company, with the acquisition of two Brazilian paper product producers, marking the packager’s entry into Latin America’s largest economy.
La Virgen receives funding for Peru hydropower plant
08 January 2016
Peru’s Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas Abogados Financieros has helped Brazilian-Peruvian hydropower plant developer La Virgen obtain a US$30 million loan from Banco Santander and Peruvian development bank Cofide.
Panama risks treaty claim over canal dispute
11 August 2015
Italian construction group Salini Impregilo has threatened Panama with a potential US$2.2 billion investment treaty claim relating to a project to expand the Panama Canal – in addition to ICC and dispute adjudication board proceedings that are already underway.