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Costa Rica’s Facio & Cañas opens two new offices

Highly Recommended Costa Rican firm Facio & Cañas has inaugurated two offices in the tourist hotpots of Guanacaste and Puntarenas in an effort to support clients outside of San José.

27 March 2023

US marketing company combines with Brazilian gaming platform

Dias Carneiro Advogados has helped US marketing company DigitalReef enter the online gaming sector by merging with Brazilian platform Gamers Club.

27 March 2023

Argentine energy group makes debut on local capital markets

Salaverri, Burgio & Wetzler Malbrán has helped Argentine power generation company Generación Litoral issue US$90 million worth of bonds, marking the group’s inaugural offering.

27 March 2023

Wald Antunes restocks partnership with hire and promotion

Brazilian firm Wald, Antunes, Vita e Blattner Advogados has added two new partners by hiring the CEO of São Paulo’s state environmental agency to lead its offering in that area, while it has promoted a lawyer in its disputes group.

24 March 2023

Familiar firms return for América Móvil reclassification

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York and Robles Miaja Abogados in Mexico City have helped telecoms titan América Móvil reclassify its existing shares on the Mexican and New York stock exchanges.

24 March 2023

Argentine arbitrator challenged over Venezuela appointments

A UK election technology investor has applied to disqualify arbitrator Raúl Vinuesa from hearing a US$1.5 billion International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) claim against Venezuela, alleging that his repeat appointments by the state raise doubts about his impartiality.

24 March 2023

MercadoLibre makes US$24 million issuance

Marval O'Farrell Mairal has acted as deal counsel in a 5 billion pesos (US$24 million) notes issuance made by the consumer loans trust of Argentine e-commerce group MercadoLibre.

24 March 2023

Peruvian start-up Leasy secures funds

Rebaza, Alcázar & De las Casas in Lima has helped Peruvian fintech platform Leasy obtain a US$25 million loan.

24 March 2023

Paul Hastings nabs LatAm talent from Shearman

Paul Hastings LLP has bolstered its Latin America practice group by hiring Shearman & Sterling LLP partner Grissel Mercado and counsel Maria Larsen.

23 March 2023

Mexico probes mobile telecoms market in two separate studies

Mexico’s telecommunications regulator has opened two market studies to assess how access to radio spectrum and the availability of distribution channels affects competition in the mobile telecoms sector.

23 March 2023

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