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
Debevoise & Plimpton is advising US company International Paper on the sale of its Brazilian corrugated packaging business, which includes three containerboard mills and four box plants, to Klabin, Brazil’s largest paper manufacturer.
Argentinian law firm Barros & Errázuriz has helped Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras qualify as a bidder in the second health facility concession program being held by Argentina’s Public Works Ministry.
Philippi Prietozarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría (PPU) has acted as Chilean counsel Banco Santander on acquisition of a 50.1-per cent stake in the Chilean arm of Mercury Trade Finance Solutions.
Hogan Lovells has hired Kelly Ann Shaw, the US President’s former Deputy Assistant for International Economic Affairs and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, as a partner, and who was the lead negotiator&
