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Deal Points 2024 (Colombia)

Colombia, Latin America-wide, Sergio Carreño Mendoza, III M&A Congress, The Mergers and Acquisitions Seminar of the Universidad de los Andes

On 17 October, in the framework of the III M&A Congress, the Mergers and Acquisitions Seminar of the Universidad de los Andes launched the report Mergers and Acquisitions. Deal Points 2024 (Colombia). The study aims to contribute to the understa... view more [+]

ARIAS advises IFC on major $150 million financing for Grupo Ransa

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua

ARIAS served as legal counsel to International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, in a strategic $150 million financing operation granted to Grupo Ransa. This transaction, which spanned multiple jurisdictions across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), will support Grupo Ra... view more [+]

Cartel enforcement is evolving across the Americas. Here are three aspects to consider

Latin America-wide

DLA Piper - Competition enforcers throughout the Americas focus their efforts to investigate and prosecute antitrust cartels: agreements between competitors to fix prices, rig bids, or allocate markets. These offenses, which the US Supreme Court has labeled the supreme evil of antitrust, are un... view more [+]

Smartsheet to be Acquired by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for US $8.4 Billion

Smartsheet has entered into an agreement to be acquired by funds managed by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners (the Purchasers) in a transaction valued at approximately US $8.4 billion. Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP are acting as legal counsel to the Purchasers. The... view more [+]

Lawyers’ professional secrecy and money laundering

Diego Cabezuela Sancho, President of the Inlaw Alliance of Law Firms

Lawyers’ professional secrecy is not living its best years. The fight against money laundering is also putting it on the ropes, imposing on us the obligation to control our clients, monitor their business and even report their suspicious actions. Generally speaking, no one doubts that law... view more [+]

Inspiring Women in Law - An Interview with Melissa Diaz, Compliance manager for Central America and The Caribbean at Inchcape

Costa Rica, Melissa Diaz, Inchcape Central America & The Caribbean

"It is increasingly common to see women in roles previously dominated by men"

Latin Counsel has spoken with Melissa Diaz, Compliance Manager of Inchcape Central America and the Caribbean , about the challenges and opportunities ...

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Academic presentation of the book "M&A Transactions - Current Legal Issues"

Rodolfo Papa, Latin Counsel

On Tuesday, October 15, the academic presentation -in classroom format- of the book Operaciones de M&A. Cuestiones Jurídicas de Actualidad was held. Cuestiones Jurídicas de Actualidad (First edition. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Llanes Ediciones. 2024), whose author is the corporate lawyer... view more [+]

Argentina regulates framework for Private Placements

Argentina

DLA Piper - On September 18, 2024, the Argentine Securities and Exchange Commission (CNV) issued Resolution No. 1016 (the Resolution), which regulates the country’s framework for the private placement of securities and cross-border transactions. The Resolution aligns Argentina’s legal framewo... view more [+]

Q3 Quarterly Investment Outlook - October 2024

Graham Wainer, Stonehage Fleming

- Summary - Despite a generally favourable environment, the outlook for the global economy is uncertain. Over the last quarter, the consensus mood has fluctuated between confidence in an economic ‘Goldilocks’ and fears of imminent recession. Sentiment is likely to continue to waver. In thi... view more [+]

Impact of restrictions on temporary stays (Airbnb type) in Mexico City

Mexico, Greenberg Traurig - Miguel Flores Bernés, Joselino Morales, José Antonio Diez de Bonilla, Gerardo Carrillo

Greenberg Traurig - In April and October 2024, Mexico City implemented significant reforms to its Tourism Law, Housing Law for Mexico City and Law for the Integral Reconstruction of CDMX, as well as to the Regulations of the Tourism Law of the Law of Mercantile Establishments (normativity), directl... view more [+]

Iberdrola Power Portfolio Acquisition Financing, awarded as Infrastructure Financing of the Year and Power Financing of the Year by LatinFinance

Mexico, Galicia Abogados

Galicia Abogados acted as special Mexican legal counsel to a syndicate of commercial banks (Santander Mexico, MMBA Mexico, SMBC and Barclays) and two development banks (Nacional Financiera and Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior) in the US$6,200’000,000 aggregate financing to a special purpose tru... view more [+]

Latin Lawyer 2025 highlights Alessandri as a highly recommended firm

Chile

The renowned international guide Latin Lawyer 250 placed the Chilean firm among the best in the region in its 2025 ranking, highlighting its strength in intellectual property and the diversification of its legal services

Alessandri - The renowned international guide Latin Lawyer 250 placed the Chilean firm among the best in the region in its 2025 ranking, highlighting ...

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