Global law firm Dentons, the world’s largest by headcount, is set to merge with Colombian law firm Cárdenas & Cárdenas, and Mexico firm López Velarde, Heftye y Soria (LVHS).
Security systems multinational Tyco instructed Costa Rican law firm BLP on the acquisition of Circuito SA, an engineering and electrical design products company.
Shearman & Sterling advised Volaris, Mexico’s ultra-low-cost airline, on a $175 million follow-on offering of American depository shares.
Sidley Austin’s Washington, D.C. office recently obtained a victory on behalf of the Republic of Peru in an arbitration relating to gas extraction royalties.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was instructed by Santo Domingo Group in connection with SABMiller’s sale to rivals Anheuser-Busch InBev for approximately $106 billion.
Paul Hastings was instructed by the underwriters – Goldman Sachs, HSBC Securities and Morgan Stanley – of Televisa’s $1.2 billion senior notes offering.
Brazilian firm KLA has hired criminal law and compliance expert André Gustavo Isola Fonseca from Veirano Advogados
Shearman & Sterling is advising Liberty Global, the international cable company, on its acquisition of Cable & Wireless, a communications and entertainment provider operating in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Clients are already benefitting from the creation of the Pacific Alliance trade bloc, but its potential has yet to be fully realised, according to the leader of Baker & McKenzie’s energy law practice in
Law firms Broad and Cassel, in Miami, and Gutiérrez Falla & Asociados (GUFA Law), based in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, acted for Autopistas del Atlántico S.A. (ADASA) on a $145 million financing to
