Market: Uruguay

Brazil’s Campos Mello Advogados in cooperation with DLA Piper and Ferrere (Uruguay) have helped Cobra Group – the Spanish affiliate of Brazilian power company Carmo Energy – complete its US$1.1 billion acquisition of onshore oil assets from Petrobras.

11 January 2023

Several firms have helped data centre operator Aligned acquire Latin American-focused counterpart ODATA from Brazil’s Patria Investimentos and US IT company CyrusOne.

03 January 2023

Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga has appointed Héctor Viana as its new managing partner, replacing outgoing leader Fernando Jiménez de Aréchaga Sr.

19 December 2022

Uruguay’s Guyer & Regules has announced that partner Nicolás Piaggio and accountant Nicolás Juan will replace Nicolás Herrera as the firm’s two new co-managing partners, while the outfit has also unveiled a new executive committee.

13 December 2022

Mexican retailer Grupo Axo has enlisted Carey in Santiago, Mexican firms Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC and SMPS Legal, Peru's Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas in Lima and Guyer & Regules in Montevideo to acquire Chilean clothing company Komax.

08 December 2022

Uruguayan firm Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga has strengthened its labour and employment practice by promoting a lawyer to its senior rank.

07 December 2022

Veirano Advogados in São Paulo and Ferrere (Uruguay) have helped US agribusiness Bunge and a subsidiary of Indian counterpart UPL acquire a joint minority stake in Brazilian soybean company Seedcorp.

25 November 2022

The renewables sector in Latin America is poised to keep growing beyond the parameters of the past couple of years, indicated speakers at Latin Lawyer Live: Regional Project Finance conference earlier this month.

21 November 2022

Brazilian food company M Dias Branco has enlisted Guyer & Regules to buy Uruguayan pasta group Las Acacias, the company’s first acquisition outside of its domicile.

14 November 2022

Uruguay’s competition watchdog has fined a subsidiary of AB InBev more than US$4.7 million for abusing its dominance through exclusivity agreements in the Uruguayan beer market, five years after it was penalised for the same conduct.

07 November 2022