Attorneys Isabella Gandini, Carolina Arciniegas, and Inés Elvira Vesga have joined Holland & Knight’s Bogotá office as senior counsel.
As part of its regional growth strategy and responding to the needs of the local market, law firm BLP has appointed Cynthia Sequeira (pictured) as special counsel at its Guatemala office, where she will practice
Ernst & Young (EY) Peru has added eight professionals to its legal services team in its Lima office, bolstering the practice’s ability to counsel companies on business growth and legal risk mitigation.
Law firm Morgan & Morgan acted as Panamanian legal counsel to Farallon Nicaragua, which farms shrimp and exports to Asia, Europe and the US, in connection with the sale of its business to Cooke Inc.,
Law firm BLP has acted as local legal counsel to state-owned Banco Nacional de Costa Rica in its cash tender offer for up to $150 million in aggregate principal amount of its 5.875 per cent senior notes
Law firm Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría’s (PPU) Bogotá office has advised Colombian company AES Chivor on its acquisition of a wind farm portfolio totalling 549 megawatts in capacity from local company Colwind.
Law firm Cleary Gottlieb has represented initial purchasers BNP Paribas, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and Santander in a high-yield global debt offering by Mexican cement company Cemex.
Argentinian law firm Beccar Varela has promoted associate Daniel Levi to the position of partner, and who practices in corporate finance, banking and financial institutions and corporate law.
Felsberg Advogados has appointed Paula Salles as a partner to structure the Brazilian law firm’s competition law department and provide reinforcements for the M&A, compliance, and corporate criminal law areas
Chilean law firm Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrer DU & Uría (PPU) acted as local counsel to Twenty-First Century Fox in the sale of its film and television assets to The Walt Disney Company, a transaction
