Work Area: Mining & metals

Francisco Pinilla, regional legal director of product and commercial for Latin America at Uber, wins LACCA’s Dealmaker of the Year Award. He was a driving force behind the ride-hailing app’s mega tie-up with Chilean grocery delivery counterpart Cornershop. He shares his top tips for inking deals and taking stakeholder management seriously.

13 January 2021

Paul Hastings LLP in London and São Paulo and Brazil’s Stocche Forbes Advogados have helped US investor EIG Global Energy Partners sell its minority stake in Bolivia-Brazil natural gas pipeline (GASBOL) as it squares up to bid for a larger stake in the same asset, which is likely to be divested by state-owned oil giant Petrobras later this year.

13 January 2021

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP in Toronto and Beretta Godoy in Buenos Aires have helped Canadian mining group Yamana Gold enter into a joint venture with Anglo-Swiss commodity trader Glencore and US counterpart Newmont in a project set to combine two of Argentina’s largest mining operations.

12 January 2021

Garrigues (Peru) and Guevara & Gutiérrez - Servicios Legales in La Paz have helped Peruvian investment group Colca Capital acquire local information management company Polysistemas and its Bolivian subsidiary.

12 January 2021

Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados has helped Brazilian utilities company AES Tietê Energia acquire two wind farm facilities in north-eastern Brazil for 806 million reais (US$156 million).

11 January 2021

Paraguayan firm Palacios, Prono & Talavera has helped local conglomerate Grupo Cartes – owned by former Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes – acquire family-owned drugstore chain Cadena Farmacenter.

11 January 2021

Three Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP offices and Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados in Lima have helped Peruvian supermarket chain InRetail acquire fellow retailer Makro Supermayorista for US$360 million.

11 January 2021

Marval O'Farrell Mairal has helped Argentine aviation group Aerolíneas Argentinas merge with its sister company, Austral Líneas Aéreas.

07 January 2021

Chilean law firm Carey has helped food multinational Nestlé acquire local premium chocolate company La Fête Chocolat for an undisclosed value.

07 January 2021

DLA Piper (Peru) has helped Mexico’s Grupo Elektra sell all of its shares in Banco Azteca’s Peruvian operations, marking its exit from Peru.

07 January 2021