Holland & Knight is advising the parties involved in Brazilian real estate developer MRV Engenharia E Participacoes’ $200 million investment to acquire a 50-per cent stake in Miami-based real estate company AHS Residential.
Baker McKenzie has advised China Yangtze Power Company (CYPC) on its $3.59 billion purchase of Sempra Energy’s Peruvian businesses, including its 83.6 per cent stake in Luz del Sur.
Brazilian firm TozziniFreire Advogados has recruited Isadora Fingermann as head partner of its white collar crimes practice.
Brazilian law firm Pinheiro Neto has advised the underwriters on a 400-million-reais ($96 million) debentures issuance by food producer Minerva.
Argentinian law firm Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani has recruited two partners, Pablo Tarantino and Agustín Griffi, to its M&A and corporate practice.
Chilean law firm Carey has Minera Valle Central on its reprogramming and drafting of a credit agreement for around $56 million with Scotiabank Chile and Export Development Canada.
Miami-based global law firm Diaz Reus & Targ has promoted the head of its Bogotá office, former associate attorney Marcela Cristina Blanco, to partner.
BLP Legal in Costa Rica has hired Gabriela Jiménez as special counsel, and who served as the country’s ambassador to Mexico from 2010-14.
DLA Piper Chile has announced the launch of its white collar practice, and which will be led by counsel Ignacio Schwerter (pictured), who joined the firm on September 2.
Miguel Flores Bernés, a shareholder in law firm Greenberg Traurig’s antitrust litigation and competition regulation practice in Mexico City, has been appointed chair of the competition commission of the Mexico chapter of the
