Topic: Coronavirus

As we begin 2022, GCs expect to see a continuation of many pandemic-era trends, including managing uncertainty, the accelerated use of technology to innovate, the importance of managing hybrid teams and an increasing focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters.

11 January 2022

Featured in The Guide to Corporate Crisis Management - Fourth Edition

Although the worst effects of the health crisis seem to have peaked, following recent vaccination efforts, the lasting effects of the pandemic will continue to impact the Brazilian economic and corporate environments.

10 December 2021

Featured in The Guide to Corporate Crisis Management - Fourth Edition

The purpose of this chapter is to lay out the specific duties imposed on administrators and other stakeholders of companies acting in Colombia, including those triggered by the covid-19 crisis and its aftermath.

10 December 2021

Chinese covid-19 vaccine producer Sinovac has enlisted Chilean firm Carey to purchase a property in Santiago to set up production facilities in the Andean country.

08 December 2021

Mexican pharmaceutical company Genomma Lab has hired Paul Hastings LLP in New York and local firm Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez, SC to enter into a joint venture with US counterpart Oravax Medical to produce and distribute Oravax's oral covid-19 vaccine in Mexico.

03 December 2021

While successful vaccine rollouts in many Latin American countries have resulted in employees returning to their usual workspaces, panellists at the Latin Lawyer Connect: Labour & Employment conference highlighted that employers should follow local governments’ guidelines around reopening offices to the letter to avoid discrimination claims.

28 October 2021

The post-pandemic return to the office presents novel hurdles for in-house counsel, so GCs should avoid getting tangled up in the quickly changing consensus by staying abreast of the latest regulations and implementing measures that go beyond the standard, both in the workplace as well as at home.

04 October 2021

PPO Abogados has helped the French Development Agency (AFD) grant a loan of 100 million euros (US$118 million) to Bolivia to support households severely affected by the covid-19 pandemic.

20 September 2021

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has hired Mexican firm Ritch Mueller to issue the world’s first-ever social recovery and reactivation covid-19 bond, worth 5 billion Mexican pesos (US$250 million).

25 August 2021

Pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Richmond has raised US$85 million to develop Russia’s Sputnik V covid-19 vaccine in Argentina, launching a public offering that called on local counsel from Nicholson y Cano Abogados and Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani.

16 August 2021