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Bolivia says it has defeated a Peruvian group’s US$270 million investment treaty claim over the nationalisation of a stake in a cement producer.

05 December 2023

Carey has advised Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical company Viatris on the Chilean aspects of its divestment of intellectual property rights regarding several of its brands in Latin America, which it sold to South Africa’s Aspen Pharmacare for US$280 million.

05 December 2023

Dentons Paz Horowitz has helped Ecuadorean cinema chain Muliticines acquire the local operations of US counterpart Cinemark.

05 December 2023

Two Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati offices, Lefosse in São Paulo and Pérez-Llorca in Lisbon have helped Brazilian digital healthcare group Conexa Saúde Servico Medicos merge with Portuguese counterpart Zenklub in a move to expand its mental health services.

05 December 2023

Mattos Filho has appointed an associate from fellow Elite firm BMA Advogados as partner, strengthening its insurance, reinsurance and private pensions group.

04 December 2023

Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados has added a fourth office in Brazil by launching an outpost in Rio de Janeiro, hiring an of counsel to strengthen the new outpost.

04 December 2023

Dechert has announced that its international arbitration group in Paris is breaking away, with global practice co-chair Eduardo Silva Romero and members of his team set to launch an independent boutique.

04 December 2023

US firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC in Mexico City and Beccar Varela in Buenos Aires have helped Australia’s Macquarie Capital acquire US oil inspection group Camin Cargo Control, including its assets in Argentina and Mexico.

04 December 2023

Flor Bustamante Pizarro & Hurtado has helped French-Colombian consortium EOMMT renegotiate the terms of its contract to operate Ecuador’s first metro line.

04 December 2023

Lobo de Rizzo Advogados has helped Banco Santander and Itaú Unibanco provide two separate loans worth a combined 1.7 billion reais (US$340 million) to the Brazilian state of Pará, which will use the funds to finance finance local infrastructure projects.

04 December 2023