Canada’s Senate has signed off on the bill to ratify the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trilateral free trade agreement that replaces NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, which had been in force since 1994.
Strengthening its local and regional practice areas of M&A, banking, finance and business law, BLP has incorporated two partners and a senior associate in El Salvador, and a new director of its energy
Argentinian law firm Tanoira Cassagne has advised local wine producer Dante Robino on its buyout by the Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes brewery.
Brazilian law firm Demarest Advogados has helped local fintech company Creditas enter into a partnership with Apple to establish an online platform providing financing for consumers to acquire Apple devices.
Mexican retail chain Grupo Gigante has engaged law firm Jones Day for its acquisition of local taco chain El Farolito.
Argentinian law firm Beccar Varela has advised the placement agents on a Vista Oil & Gas $50 million notes issuance.
EY Law has advised Trina Solar on the closing of a project finance structure for $12 million for the construction of the Parque Solar Bosques de los Llanos 1 solar plant in Colombia.
White & Case has assisted Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited with its agreement to divest a portfolio of select over-the-counter and prescription pharmaceutical products in Latin American countries, within its Growth and Emerging Markets Business Unit,
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,
Argentinian law firm Cangueiro Ruiz Abogados has hired Federico Durini as a partner in its corporate law practice.
