Squire Patton Boggs has played a leading role in securing the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the 108-megawatt Energía Sierra Juárez II wind farm, to be located in Tecate, in Mexico’s Baja California state.
Argentinian law firm Cangueiro Ruiz Abogados has hired Federico Durini as a partner in its corporate law practice.
Cuatrecasas in Peru has advised Proinversión, the country’s private pro-investment agency, on the first closing of financing for a public-private partnership to expand the port of Salaverry.
This week’s 27-per cent drop in global oil prices sparks concern for Latin America’s state oil companies and their oil-dependent economies, especially as oil demand is weak amid the measures imposed to contain
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned the Nicaraguan National Police (NNP) and three senior officials of the government of Nicaragua for their alleged involvement in human rights abuses
Garrigues has hired Adriana Espinosa to head its infrastructure practice in Colombia as the law firm further consolidates its Latin America team.
Argentina’s Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites & Arntsen (PAGBAM) has acted as deal counsel in a 3.7 billion-peso ($63 million) debt offering by Banco Santander Argentina.
Chilean law firm Carey has acted as local counsel to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners on the sale of its indirect 33-per cent stake in the Autopista Vespucio Norte and Túnel San Cristóbal-Apoquindo toll roads,
Greenberg Traurig has promoted two lawyers to shareholder position in its Mexico City office, part of an elevation of 44 lawyers to shareholder across the firm.
Brazilian law firm Pinheiro Neto has acted as counsel to the dealers in a tier-1 perpetual notes offering for $700 million by Itaú Unibanco Holding.
