Market: United States of America

Featured in The Guide to Corporate Compliance - Third Edition

Because of the US president’s ability to swiftly impose sanctions in response to global crises, sanctions are often seen as the ‘tip of the spear’ of the US response to malign conduct all over the world.

03 May 2022

Featured in The Guide to Corporate Compliance - Third Edition

Regulatory officials have increasingly highlighted the need to use data to drive risk assessment and monitoring. As such, an effective compliance model will continually look for ways to quantify risks and monitor compliance.

03 May 2022

Featured in The Guide to Corporate Crisis Management - Fourth Edition

While the decrease in publicly disclosed new investigations in the past several years may signal a slowdown in new enforcement matters in the short term, given its announced priorities, the Biden Administration is likely to increase anti-corruption enforcement.

10 December 2021

Featured in The Guide to Corporate Crisis Management - Fourth Edition

While several Latin American corporates facing severe liquidity issues have turned to domestic insolvency proceedings to restructure their debts and operations, some companies have turned to Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code to restructure their balance sheets and obtain access to liquidity.

10 December 2021

Featured in 15th Annual Awards

CVC Capital Partners’ acquisition of Peruvian cash management business Hermes Transportes Blindados required a two-pronged approach. To clinch the deal, CVC had to undertake a public tender offer to purchase the majority of the listed company’s shares directly – from counterpart The Carlyle Group – at the same time as reaching separate, private, deal for the remainder. The multi-layered transaction between two of the world’s largest private equity investors played out over the Lima Stock Exchange and established sophisticated deal-making and compliance standards. It is our private equity Deal of the Year.

21 May 2021

Avianca secures restructuring milestones in New York court orders

22 March 2021

The second round of NAFTA talks has closed in Mexico City, with US media suggesting that in the next round the US could push to make the current investor-state dispute settlement system in the agreement "opt in".

12 September 2017

As officials from the US, Canada and Mexico embark on the first round of renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement, our sister publication Global Arbitration Review spoke to practitioners about the states' positions on the investment chapter and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions.

21 August 2017

Weeks after the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) showcased the sophistication of the Brazilian arbitration market, an unexpected decision by a São Paulo court last Monday has left local practitioners aggrieved.

14 June 2010