Market: Uruguay

Dominican renewables company InterEnergy has hired Deloitte Legal and Lexin in Montevideo to acquire three wind farms in Uruguay.

24 August 2021

International noteholders of Chilean car importer Automotores Gildemeister have completed a debt-for-equity takeover of the company through a pre-packaged Chapter 11 plan approved in New York.

20 August 2021

Argentina’s Grupo Financiero Galicia has relied on Hughes & Hughes in Montevideo to obtain a license to operate as a securities broker in Uruguay.

17 August 2021

IDB Invest has hired Clifford Chance LLP in Washington, DC and Ferrere (Uruguay) to provide a US$45 million financing to local retailer Ta-Ta.

16 August 2021

US private equity company Stonepeak has enlisted Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York and Palo Alto as lead international counsel to buy Lumen Technologies’ Latin American business for US$2.7 billion.

05 August 2021

Ferrere (Uruguay) has helped Campiglia Construcciones and local architect Ernesto Kimelman structure a real estate trust and issue hybrid securities on the Montevideo stock exchange for US$165 million.

03 August 2021

Ferrere (Uruguay) has advised local company EF Asset Management in its acquisition of local construction group Cepheus for US$34 million.

02 August 2021

Argentina’s Grupo Werthein has enlisted four Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP offices and Bruchou, Fernández Madero & Lombardi in Buenos Aires as lead Latin American counsel to acquire regional entertainment company Vrio from US telecommunications group AT&T.

27 July 2021

Guyer & Regules has helped Corporación Vial del Uruguay (CVU), the country’s largest toll road concessionaire, raise US$150 million in a debt offering.

23 July 2021

Featured in Technology 2021

Our latest technology survey charts the growing dependence of Latin American corporate counsel on ‘lawtech’, or advances in legal technology. We present some of the key data points that illustrate how in-house counsel in the region use technology today.

15 July 2021