Madrid-based transportation infrastructure management company Aleatica has named Marco Antonio Padilla Mérigo global director of compliance and risk management.

Argentinian law firm Tanoira Cassagne Abogados has advised Neuquén Province on a 937.7-million-peso debt issuance (approximately $14.4 million), with a 92-day maturity at a variable rate.

Brazilian law firm Baptista Luz Advogados has acted as adviser to local start-up RankMyAPP on a capital injection from venture capital firm KPTL.

Panamanian law firm Morgan & Morgan has advised the shareholders of Unity Group, a holding company with subsidiaries engaged in insurance brokerage in Central America with operations in six countries, in a corporate restructuring and

Hogan Lovells is making a series of changes to its practice group structure and the leadership of its international management committee, and which include combining its Washington, DC and Americas regions under a single Americas

Cuatrecasas teams in Mexico City and Madrid have advised Bankia on a financing package for Spanish engineering company Elecnor for the construction of high-tension electricity transmission lines and substations in Mexico.

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