Market: Colombia

Cuatrecasas (Colombia) has helped the concessionaire of the country’s inaugural 5G toll road project and its sponsors – Brazil’s Patria Investimentos and Bogotá-based fund Mercantil Colpatriaon – obtain a financing package worth 1.5 trillion pesos (US$343 million).

29 September 2022

The Highly Recommended Bogotá and Lima offices of international law firm CMS have bolstered their mining and fintech practices, respectively, through two partner hires.

27 September 2022

Fagua López & Asociados has helped a Colombian 4G toll road concessionaire obtain a US$332 million financing from local financial institutions.

27 September 2022

Three offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP have helped Colombian agribusiness Lavoro combine with a US special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), a deal that will make the Latin American business a publicly listed entity in the US.

26 September 2022

Despite claiming the duration and complexities of its Chapter 11 case were unforeseen, South American airline LATAM has failed to convince a New York court to let it pay its investment banker PJT Partners an additional US$12 million restructuring fee if its plan becomes effective.

22 September 2022

Six offices of Cuatrecasas, Allende & Brea in Buenos Aires, four offices of Central American firm Alta and Pérez Bustamante & Ponce (PBP) in Quito have helped multinational customer experience company Majorel acquire Madrid-based counterpart Findasense, including the target’s operations in Latin America.

22 September 2022

Puerto Rico-based QMC Telecom has hired Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría (Colombia) to obtain a US$45 million credit line from IDB Invest to finance its operations in Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

15 September 2022

Featured in The Guide to International Arbitration in Latin America

Dualism becomes essential when analysing the differences between domestic and international arbitration in Colombia. Regarding domestic arbitration, practitioners should be aware of the implications of its constitutional status under Colombian law.

15 September 2022

Dentons in Amsterdam and Bogotá as well as Brazil's Santos Neto Advogados have helped a group of lenders provide a US$275 million sustainability-linked loan to coffee producer Sucafina, which has operations in several Latin American countries.

13 September 2022

Argos North America – the US branch of Colombian cement and energy conglomerate Grupo Argos – has hired Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York to obtain a US$750 million credit line to refinance its existing debt.

12 September 2022