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Cement investors lose treaty claim against Bolivia

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 stars in IP pharma sale for LatAm brands

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

Ecuador’s Multicines wraps acquisition of Cinemark

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

05 December 2023

Brazilian and Portuguese health groups merge mental health assets

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 hires BMA lawyer to insurance partnership

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 opens its doors in Rio

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 LatAm arbitration team in Paris breaks away

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

Macquarie buys oil inspection group with LatAm assets

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 guides renegotiation of Ecuador’s first metro line

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 helps Brazil’s Pará state ink infrastructure loans

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

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