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Featured in Who represents Latin America's biggest companies 2022?

In its landmark annual research into which law firms advise Latin America’s largest 100 corporates, as ranked by revenue, LACCA presents the companies that make up our top 100, as well as their preferred external counsel.

31 March 2023

Featured in Who represents Latin America's biggest companies 2022?

As war erupted in Europe, interest rates sky-rocketed and political uncertainty bubbled across the region, leading Latin American companies kept their external legal advisers close by to navigate the choppy waters.

31 March 2023

Featured in Who represents Latin America's biggest companies 2022?

When it comes to engaging external counsel, GCs prefer the coverage and efficiency provided by full-service firms for most types of work, but boutiques offer the most value when it comes to flexibility and access to partners.

31 March 2023

Featured in Who represents Latin America's biggest companies 2022?

The legal expertise and capabilities needed to properly manage a corporate crisis can be tremendously varied, but the law firms most skilled at dealing with them share common traits, according to some of the region’s leading GCs.

31 March 2023

Featured in Who represents Latin America's biggest companies 2022?

A part of LACCA’s research into the hiring trends of in-house counsel, we speak to Latin American GCs to identify exactly how law firms can to add the most value, stand out from the crowd and beat the competition.

31 March 2023

Peruvian Highly Recommended firm Estudio Olaechea has promoted its data protection practice head to partner, a move that almost equals number of men and women in the firm’s senior rank.

31 March 2023

Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados has helped Eletrobras acquire a stake in local hydroelectric generation company Madeira Energia for 168 million reais (US$32 million) through its power utilities subsidiary Furnas.

31 March 2023

Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown has helped sanitation group Aegea raise 551 million reais (US$106 million) in the company’s first issuance under Brazil’s new securities regulation.

31 March 2023

Colombian state-owned utilities company Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) has enlisted Mosquera Abogados to secure a €180 million (US$190 million) loan from French bank Agence Française de Développement (AFD).

31 March 2023

Chilean real estate group Parque Arauco has enlisted Morales & Besa to issue notes worth 3 million unidades de fomento (US$130 million).

31 March 2023