Work Area: Shipping & Maritime

Central American firm Mayora & Mayora has added a third office in Honduras by opening a new outpost on the island of Roatán.

25 September 2023

Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown has hired a partner from Highly Recommended maritime-focused firm Kincaid Mendes Vianna Advogados

13 September 2023

A slew of law firms has helped German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd expand in Latin America by purchasing two subsidiaries of Chilean foreign trade services group SAAM for US$1 billion.

26 October 2022

Dutch port operator APM Terminals has hired Machado Meyer Advogados to acquire port assets from Brazilian shipbuilder Estaleiro Atlântico Sul (EAS), following a 455 million reais (US$89 million) bid.

13 September 2022

Machado Meyer Advogados and Cascione Pulino Boulos Advogados have helped a port operator controlled by Brazilian fund IG4 Capital acquire US$259 million worth of assets in the state of São Paulo from Rumo, the logistics group of Cosan.

26 July 2022

Mattos Filho has helped Norwegian company BW Energy acquire two deepwater oil fields from Petrobras and a Brazil-based floating production storage unit (FPSO) from Italy's Saipem in a deal worth nearly US$150 million in total.

01 July 2022

Petrochemical company Braskem has enlisted three White & Case LLP offices to enter into a joint venture with Dutch logistics services provider Advario to build an ethane import terminal in Mexico.

24 June 2022

Mexican digital cargo platform Nowports has hired Gunderson Dettmer in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, Creel Abogados in Mexico City and Chile's Pérez-Iñigo, Ugarte y Baraona Abogados to raise US$150 million in a Series C funding round, which made the start-up a unicorn.

31 May 2022

Brazil's SAAM Towage has relied on Demarest Advogados to buy a large fleet of tugboats from local maritime services company Starnav for US$198 million.

19 May 2022

French container ship group CMA CGM has called on three offices of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Posse Herrera Ruiz in Bogotá to acquire assets from US supply chain services provider Ingram Micro in a global deal worth US$3 billion.

09 May 2022