Morrison & Foerster has advised SoftBank in connection with a Series B financing round led by the company’s Latin America fund totaling $125 million in AlphaCredit.
Brazil’s Demarest Advogados has recruited Eloy Rizzo Neto as a compliance and white-collar investigations partner to head its compliance practice in São Paulo.
Hogan Lovells has guided Metrorrey, the Mexican state-owned entity in charge of the metro lines in Nuevo León state, on a dual credit facility worth a combined $115 million.
Greenberg Traurig has welcomed Giovanni Biscardi as a shareholder based in New York and a foreign legal counsel based in Miami, and who brings a wealth of experience as a partner in law firms in
Chilean law firm Carey has counselled Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior (BLADEX), the Panama City-based Foreign Trade Bank of Latin America, on a $29 million loan granted to LATAM Airlines Group.
Holland & Knight has acted as Colombian counsel to GeoPark Limited in the issuance of $350 million 5.500 per cent senior notes due 2027.
Brazilian law firm Trench Rossi Watanabe, in a cooperation agreement with Baker McKenzie, has acted as external Brazilian counsel to underwriters Goldman Sachs, Itaú BBA, Safra and BNP Paribas on behalf of Brazilian logisticscompany Log-in
Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos has promoted three partners, Andrea Saffie, Tomás Vidal and Eduardo Lobos, bringing the firm’s total number of partners to 26.
García & Bodán has hired Cristina Mora Granados, who joins the firm as an associate and director of its intellectual property (IP) practie in Costa Rica.
As a result of the growing demand for legal services in litigation and arbitration, Chilean law firm Guerrero Olivos has expanded its team by absorbing the dispute resolution team of Della Maggiora Eyzaguirre Ferrada.