Market: Uruguay

Uruguayan savings and credit cooperative Proleco has hired Posadas, Posadas & Vecino to structure a financing programme to support investment in the country’s dairy sector.

20 January 2021

Colombian software company Siigo has hired Gómez-Pinzón in Bogotá and Guyer & Regules in Montevideo to buy Uruguayan counterpart Memory, marking the company’s expansion to a new market.

05 January 2021

US firm Winston & Strawn LLP and Guyer & Regules in Montevideo have helped US digital car sales platform KAR Global acquire local used car start-up BacklotCars for US$425 million, handing it assets in Uruguay.

19 November 2020

Five Jones Day offices, Argentina’s Allende & Brea, Bergstein Abogados in Montevideo and Paz Horowitz Abogados in Quito have helped US media company Entravision acquire a controlling stake in advertising company RedMas from counterpart Grupo Cisneros.

19 November 2020

Ignacio Suarez Anzorena has left his position as head of Latin American disputes at Clifford Chance LLP in Washington, DC, to go solo as an arbitrator based in Uruguay.

17 November 2020

12 November 2020

Ferrere (Uruguay) and Guyer & Regules have helped forestry company Cambium partner with the Uruguayan division of Dutch business services group TMF to structure a forestry trust and raise US$80 million in its first equity issuance.

10 November 2020

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29 October 2020

Uruguay’s Posadas, Posadas & Vecino has helped a consortium of local and international infrastructure companies, including German Deutsche Bahn, win a bid to operate the 273-kilometre commercial railway line between Montevideo and Paso de los Toros.

28 October 2020

Blank Rome in Philadelphia and Washington, DC and Bragard Abogados in Montevideo have helped Spain’s DISA buy a fuel distribution company from Petrobras in Uruguay for US$62 million.

21 October 2020