Market: Uruguay

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

Featured in Technology 2021

LACCA's technology survey shows Latin American corporate counsel are becoming more reliant on data analytics, AI and machine learning. What could advanced technological innovation mean for the space these lawyers occupy within their companies?

15 July 2021

A consortium of Paraguayan, Uruguayan and Argentine companies has enlisted Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga in Montevideo and Vouga Abogados in Asunción to snap up Pan American Energy’s Uruguayan fuel station chain.

14 July 2021

Ferrere (Uruguay) has helped US aviation group Eastern Airlines obtain permission to launch a direct flight between the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo and Miami in the US state of Florida.

02 July 2021

The financial strain of the covid-19 pandemic has forced governments in Latin America to dig deep to cover costs. As a growing debt pile looms ever larger, some countries in the region are floating a tax on the wealthy to help foot the bill, one of several ways private wealth counsel in the region is evolving. Emily Darby reports on a practice area experiencing big changes.

29 June 2021

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in Madrid, New York and London has helped Spanish gambling company Codere Online combine with a Mexican special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in a US$350 million deal that creates Latin America’s first listed gaming operator.

24 June 2021

Uruguayan Latin Lawyer 250 firm Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga has opened an office in Aguada Park in Montevideo’s free-trade zone, its second outpost in Uruguay since it launched there just over a year ago.

22 June 2021

Uruguayan law firm Guyer & Regules has helped local construction company Grupo Vial Oriental sign a public-private partnership (PPP) motorway project with the Uruguayan Ministry of Transportation and Public Works.

15 June 2021

Four Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP offices have helped tech company dLocal – Uruguay’s first unicorn – raise some US$710 million in an initial public offering.

11 June 2021

Spanish security group Prosegur has called on Ferrere (Uruguay) to acquire collection and payments company RedPagos and electronic cash issuer Midinero in Uruguay.

09 June 2021