Uruguayan law firm Jiménez de Aréchaga, Viana & Brause advised the CAF I infrastructure fund, created and managed by the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), in its sale of a 9-per cent
Law firm Cleary Gottlieb’s New York City headquarters has acted for initial purchasers Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital, Citigroup Global Markets and Goldman Sachs in a high-yield global bond offering by Mexican speciality finance company
McConnell Valdés (McV), the largest full-service law firm in Puerto Rico and in the Caribbean, has opened an office in Miami.
BLP Honduras has advised Societé de Promotion et de Participation pour la Coopération Économique (Proparco), the private sector financing arm of France’s development agency Groupe Agence Française de Développement (
Specialist Italian publishing house LC Publishing Group has completed the acquisition of 60 per cent of Iberian Legal Group.
Baker McKenzie acted as legal advisers to US-based private equity firm Advent International Corporation in its acquisition of 51 per cent of the shares in Prisma Medios de Pago, the largest payment and credit card processor
The US government has imposed new sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA, blocking all property and interests of the company in US jurisdiction and prohibiting US persons and companies from engaging in transactions
Central American law firm García & Bodán has elected three new partners in its Managua and Tegucigalpa offices, strengthening three of its core practice areas.
Chilean law firm Carey has counselled MetLife Chile Seguros de Vida on the purchase of El Bosque 90, the company that owns the eponymous office building in Santiago, in a transaction valued at $90 million.
Global law firm Dentons has announced plans to enter Venezuela, and is optimistic the country will recover from its current economic and political crisis.
