Work Area: Mining & metals

Ferrere (Uruguay) has helped the Brazilian subsidiary of Irish constructor Kingspan acquire Uruguayan insulation group Bromyros.

10 February 2021

Marval O'Farrell Mairal in Buenos Aires has helped a group of Argentine investors acquire a majority stake in Miami-based food distributor Alimentos Australes.

09 February 2021

Peru’s Muñiz, Olaya, Meléndez, Castro, Ono & Herrera has helped Chinese state-owned power company China Three Gorges launch a US$569 million bid to acquire an additional stake in the Andean country’s largest electricity company, Luz del Sur.

08 February 2021

Three Latham & Watkins LLP offices and Miranda & Amado Abogados in Lima have helped Colombian oil company Ecopetrol and South Korean counterpart Korea National Oil sell Offshore International Group (OIG) – which operates oil fields in Peru – to US investor De Jong Capital.

05 February 2021

Slaughter & May in London and Claro & Cía in Santiago have helped Norwegian renewables investor Aker Horizons snap up Chilean wind and solar assets by acquiring a controlling stake in Ireland’s Mainstream Renewables for 1 billion euros (US$1.1 billion).

03 February 2021

Canadian waste management company EBI Operations has hired Lavery Lawyers in Montreal and Honorato Delaveau in Santiago to acquire a majority stake in Chilean counterpart Cosemar Group.

03 February 2021

Martínez de Hoz & Rueda in Buenos Aires has helped Norwegian oil company Equinor divest a minority stake in an Argentine offshore oil field, which it jointly owns with local counterpart YPF, to Shell.

02 February 2021

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in London and New York and three Linklaters offices have helped Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Peugeot, respectively, in their US$38 billion global merger, which also called on several Latin American law firms.

25 January 2021

French investment fund STOA has hired Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Washington DC and Paris and Stocche Forbes Advogados in São Paulo to acquire a minority stake in São Paulo metro concessionaire Linha Universidade – Brazil’s largest public-private partnership project (PPP) – from Spain’s Acciona.

25 January 2021

Claro & Cía has helped US private equity company Australis Partners buy a majority share in Chilean science and medical equipment company Galénica.

25 January 2021