Canada’s Aura completes landmark cross-border IPO on Brazil’s B3

23 July 2020

Simpson Thacher Bartlett LLP in São Paulo, Harneys in the British Virgin Islands, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto, Pinheiro Guimarães Advogados in São Paulo and Aguilar Castillo Love (Honduras) have helped Canadian mining conglomerate Aura Minerals and its shareholders complete an IPO and follow-on offering on Brazil’s B3 stock exchange, raising a total of 790 million Brazilian reais (US$150 million) in capital.

Could Central America benefit from a unified front against covid-19?

18 May 2020

Governments in Central America – a region historically plagued by crime and social unrest – have produced varying responses to the covid-19 pandemic. But the region has banded together before to tackle natural disasters, immigration issues and violence – could it do the same against covid-19?

Plan ahead: what labour measures companies should take amid covid-19

01 April 2020

Covid-19 landed in Latin America on 26 February, bringing with it an onslaught of labour and employment issues for the region’s companies and workers. Latin America’s top in-house counsel are seeking the best advice from the region’s labour lawyers on how to handle their workforces in the wake of the crisis, as the evolving outbreak presents unique employment issues for businesses.

Disney-Fox merger gets approval in Chile, Honduras and Costa Rica

28 March 2019

Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, DC, and Brussels; Carey in Santiago and Aguilar Castillo Love’s offices in Tegucigalpa and San José have helped Disney obtain antitrust approval for its US$71.3 billion global merger with 21st Century Fox in Chile, Honduras and Costa Rica.