Firms could be forced into recruitment drives in order to ensure they have enough resources to meet the rapidly increasing demand for legal services
BLP has acted as legal advisor to Panama-based Promerica Financial Corporation (PFC) in a $200 million debt issuance.
Lawyers’ role changing as focus shifts from regulatory and administrative work to challenging awards and modifying contracts
Dentons has opened an office in the Nicaraguan capital Managua as part of its growth strategy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Law firm Clifford Chance has acted for a syndicate of banks on the financing of Argentina’s first biomass plant, which will be located in Santa Rosa province.
Only minority of clients insisting that law firms ‘certify anti-corruption compliance’, according to sources
Peruvian law firm Estudio Echecopar, a Baker McKenzie associated firm, advised Darby Latin American Private Debt Fund III on a $30 million loan to Abengoa Perú and Omega Peru Operación y Mantenimiento.
BLP has announced the promotion of three associates to partner status at its San José, Costa Rica office, Adelina Villalobos, Andrea González and Juan Carlos Tristán, bringing the number of partners in the
Law firms training lawyers to give them the technical and legal skills to cope with the demand being generated by the $6.8bn industry
Law firms in the region need to keep pace with client demands – the ‘generalist lawyer is almost an endangered species’, with clients requiring more specialisation from their advisers
