Topic: ESG

Featured in The Guide to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

In Latin America, as is the case globally, climate change has been a driving force behind increasing governmental, consumer and investor demands for ESG reporting standardisation.

16 December 2022

Featured in The Guide to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

A recent substantial increase in the appetite for sustainable real estate projects in Mexico can reduce the property sector’s environmental impact, create new ways to increase returns and boost the market's value.

16 December 2022

Featured in The Guide to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

Costa Rica aims to fulfil the COP 26 agenda through mitigation and promoting a collaborative adaptation agenda rooted in climate-related investments in projects with a positive environmental footprint.

16 December 2022

Featured in The Guide to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

Carbon markets in Latin America are poised for take-off. With a rich history of involvement in hydrocarbon production and huge natural carbon sinks, such as the Amazon, Latin America has tremendous potential in the creation of carbon credits.

16 December 2022

Featured in The Guide to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

The race to develop the capacity of transformative green energy production has picked up pace as countries worldwide announce and implement increasingly ambitious carbon reduction targets, inspiring Latin America's effort to become a major player in the space.

16 December 2022

Featured in The Guide to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

In Latin American countries like Mexico, the development of the concept of social licence – the idea that the community that will be affected by a project has a say in it – is nuanced and intrinsically tied to social and political developments in key areas like environmental protection.

16 December 2022

Featured in Diversity Survey 2022

Mattos Filho partner and executive committee member Renata Cubas speaks to Latin Lawyer about the success of the firm’s Soma Talentos programme, the state of racial diversity in the Brazilian legal market and the challenges in overcoming inequality in leadership.

12 December 2022

Mattos Filho has helped Brazil’s Ultragaz enter the compressed natural gas (CNG) market by buying local business NEOgás for 165 million reais (US$32 million).

09 December 2022

Featured in Diversity Survey 2022

There has been slow but steady improvement when it comes to the number of black and indigenous lawyers at the region’s leading firms, but much more can be done to boost change. Latin Lawyer speaks to practitioners in Brazil about why firms need to go beyond the stats and work together to break barriers and step outside of comfort zones.

07 December 2022

Galicia Abogados has helped Mexican low-cost airline VivaAerobús structure a new notes programme worth US$1 billion and make a subsequent offer of sustainability-linked notes.

02 December 2022