Work Area: Mining & metals

Barros & Errázuriz Abogados has advised Chilean finance start-up Finix acquire local fund manager Administradora General de Fondos (AGF) from Vision Advisors.

16 December 2020

Machado Meyer Advogados has helped Brazil's Neoenergia buy state-owned utilities company CEB Distribuição in an auction for 2.5 billion reais (US$492 million).

15 December 2020

Norton Rose Fulbright in Houston and London and Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados in São Paulo have helped British oil giant BP divest its interest in two Brazilian offshore oil fields to local counterpart PetroRio in a deal worth US$100 million.

15 December 2020

Four Morrison & Foerster LLP offices, Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados in Lima, Costa Rican firm Nassar Abogados and Guevara & Gutiérrez - Servicios Legales in La Paz have helped US finance giant Visa acquire Miami-headquartered fintech YellowPepper, which operates in eight Latin American countries.

11 December 2020

Machado Meyer Advogados has helped Brazilian agriculture equipment business Rech Agrícola buy counterpart Verde Agrícola Comércio.

11 December 2020

Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados has hired a former mining partner of McCarthy Tétrault LLP to launch an office in Toronto, a move that is thought to make it the first Brazilian firm to expand to Canada.

02 December 2020

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles and Munich, Claro & Cía in Santiago and Brazil's Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados have helped US holding company Stone Canyon Industries acquire German chemicals company K+S’ salt mining business in Brazil, Chile, Peru, Canada and the US for US$3.2 billion.

11 November 2020

Canada’s Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie International in Lima and Conyers Dill & Pearman LLP in Bermuda have helped Canadian miner Trevali obtain a US$170 million refinancing.

05 November 2020

Cuatrecasas’ Lima office has helped Canadian mining group Hudbay acquire a controlling stake in a Peruvian mining company from counterpart Globetrotter Resources for US$30 million.

04 November 2020

Linklaters in London and Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados in Lima have helped Peruvian miner Gold Fields La Cima extend the term of a US$150 million loan until 2021.

03 September 2020