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The new credit card law and the introduction of DIACO in the financial system

Guatemala

José Andrés Dougherty Briz shares his perspective on the new regulatory update in the financial system in Guatemala.

Recently, in Guatemala, a regulatory change in the financial sphere has generated a lot of attention at the national level. This is Decree 2-2024 (her...

An interview with Federico Rucavado: Facio & Cañas partner discusses the challenges corporate clients face and the advantages of investing in Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Rucavado currently leads the Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions practice at Facio&Cañas. The lawyer, recognized as Top Ranked Lawyer (Corporate and M&A) - Chambers and Partners Latin America, spoke about the milestones of his career and the latest deals he has worked on.

Latin Counsel: How have you grown within Facio&Cañas? Federico Rucavado: Last February 1st we celebrated 4 years of being part of Facio & Cañas. It...

Natalia García and Lorenza Langarica, new members of Affinitas’ Management Committee

Affinitas, a regional team of four leading law firms in Latin America, has appointed Natalia García, partner at Gómez-Pinzón (Colombia), and Lorenza Langarica, partner at Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes (Mexico), to its Management Committee as of 21 February 2024. These appointments reflect A...

Pilar París joins Araoz & Rueda as a new M&A Partner

Spain

Spanish law firm Araoz & Rueda has appointed Pilar París as a new partner in the firm’s Corporate and M&A department, to continue to boost the growth in this important area of the firm’s practice. Pilar París, formerly Principal Associate at Deloitte Legal, has more than 15 years of experience ad...

M&A OUTLOOK 2024

Latin America-wide, Rodolfo Papa

Latin Counsel´s editor, Rodolfo G. Papa is pleased to present this "M&A Outlook 2024" Report, which includes -in its content- the answers to 3 "macro" questions (cited below), that have been generously answered by 10 corporate lawyers, who, without a doubt, can be qualified as "key players" in the n...

Pérez-Llorca, the first Spanish law firm to integrate Leya, a second generation Generative AI tool for the legal field

Spain

Pérez-Llorca advances in its path towards innovation with the progressive integration of Leya, a Swedish Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) platform developed specifically for the legal sector and which incorporates new functionalities and significant improvements with respect to existing solu...

Costa Rica: What will 2024 bring us in FDI?

Costa Rica, Adelina Villalobos

2023 was undoubtedly a year of significant changes in the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) attraction model that the country had sustained for years. Although it is still premature to evaluate the results of these changes, the beginning of the year always gives us the impetus to review in retrospect ...

New leadership at EC Rubio

Mexico

EC Rubio is pleased to announce the appointment of a new administration and executive committee to lead the firm into its next phase of growth and development.

The incoming committee, comprised of Ana María Becerra, Fernando Holguín, Juan Carlos Partida, and Pablo Méndez have assumed their roles as of January...

Inspiring Women In Law - An interview with Margaret Hirsch Coleman, Legal & Compliance Director for Adidas in Colombia

Colombia, Marina Vanni

Latin Counsel spoke with Margaret Hirsch Coleman, Chilean lawyer with more than 18 years of international experience in corporate advisory roles and in law firms. The leader of the legal team at Adidas Colombia spoke about the new challenges in the Legal & Compliance sector, the milestones of her career, and the empowerment of female professionals.

Latin Counsel: How was your journey within the legal area of Adidas? Margaret Hirsch Coleman: I started in 2017 as legal director in Adidas Chile, ...

Chile: New law establishes the right to be forgotten for Cancer Survivors

Chile

Bofill Mir - Ley Nacional del Cancer con la finalidad de consagrar el derecho al olvido oncológico.

On February 13, 2024, Law No. 21,656 came into force and was published in the Official Gazette, incorporating article 8 bis to Law No. 21,258, the Nat...

Three news items from Ibero-America: inflation in Argentina exceeds 254%, Mexico targets Amazon and MercadoLibre, IMF gives recommendations to Colombia

Marina Vanni

Inflation is not letting up in Argentina: On Wednesday 14 February, the inflation figure for January was released, which reached 20.6% in the first full month of the new presidency of libertarian Javier Milei. The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, Indec, indicated that the Consumer P...

Growing for survival

Costa Rica

A brief guide for corporate international expansion

Manrique Blen is a lawyer by profession, specialized in Tax. He currently serves as Auxadi’s Director for Central America and is directly responsible for the operation in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

He supervises on a daily basis an international team that provides business process outsourcing (BPO) services to clients in several countries.

Growing up is often the only way for survival. It is no coincidence that the most globally successful companies live a culture obsessed with innovatio...

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