Work Area: Insolvency & Restructuring

Greenberg Traurig LLP in New York and Miami and Bomchil in Buenos Aires have advised Aeropuertos Argentina (AA2000) in a liability management transaction, which saw it swap bonds for US$209 million.

09 November 2021

Brazilian firm BMA - Barbosa, Müssnich, Aragão has hired a partner from Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown, bolstering its restructuring and insolvency group.

03 November 2021

BMA - Barbosa Müssnich Aragão has helped Brazilian shopping centre operator Iguatemi Empresa de Shopping Centers and Jereissati Participações complete a corporate reorganisation, worth some 1.9 billion reais (US$345 million), to form a new single business.

29 October 2021

Chilean transmission line operator Transchile Charrúa has enlisted Larrain y Asociados to restructure a loan and get new funds, in a deal worth US$115 million.

29 October 2021

Demarest Advogados and Machado Meyer Advogados have helped Brazil’s Banco Inter in a corporate reorganisation that will allow the bank to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York.

25 October 2021

Milbank in New York, Gómez-Pinzón in Bogotá and Morgan & Morgan in Panama City have helped Colombian airline Avianca obtain a US$1.05 billion facility that will help it exit its existing debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing.

22 September 2021

The province of Buenos Aires has hired three offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and DLA Piper (Argentina) to restructure US$7.2 billion worth of debt, which it defaulted on more than a year ago.

17 September 2021

Global law firm Dentons has hired a former Harneys partner to lead its office in the British Virgin Islands, bringing Latin American experience to the role.

15 September 2021

Brazilian sugar ethanol producer Biosev has enlisted Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados and FLH Advogados to renegotiate its debt pile of 7 billion reais (US$1.3 billion) with a syndicate of 15 lenders, to fulfil the obligations of its merger with Brazilian energy company Raízen.

14 September 2021

Mexican hotel operator Grupo Posadas has entered an agreement with creditors to restructure US$393 million worth of notes through a pre-packaged process in the US.

25 August 2021