Cuatrecasas teams in Mexico City and Madrid have advised Bankia on a financing package for Spanish engineering company Elecnor for the construction of high-tension electricity transmission lines and substations in Mexico.
Law firm Kennedys has hired partner Fernando Hurtado de Mendoza and senior associate Kodiak Semsch for its office in Lima as it continues to build out its practice in Peru.
Herbert Smith Freehills has appointed partner Pedro Rufino Carvalho as co-head of the firm’s Latin America Practice group.
Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has indefinitely postponed the electricity auctions scheduled for 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Brazil’s Senate has approved a bill that would postpone the entry into force of the General Data Protection Law (known by its Portuguese acronym LGPD), but companies are advised to continue to prepare for
Holland & Knight’s Mexico City-based lawyer José Luis Villareal has been promoted to senior counsel and been designated the head of the office’s intellectual property practice.
Law firm Carey has acted as counsel to Masisa, on the sale of all the forestry assets owned by its subsidiary Masisa Forestal, to Forestal Tregualemu, a company wholly owned by GFP Chile Timberland
Brazil is likely to approve the cultivation of cannabis sativa for medicinal purposes later this year, setting a legal precedent, although how the legislation would work is still to be defined, according to Isabela Amorim
A new year brings new trends, new legislation and new challenges, and as 2020 gets under way we take a look at some of the takeaways for Latin America from Baker McKenzie’s global report on
Even before the first quarter of the year is behind us, Latin America is facing new challenges, with its economies dependent on exports to China and other parts of Asia likely to see a slowdown
