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Feb 29 2012
Hogan Lovells has announced that it will launch an office in Rio de Janeiro later this year, pending regulatory approval.
The move follows a large influx of...
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Feb 15 2012
DLA Piper has launched a new office in Mexico City. The new base will be staffed with a team of 16 lawyers from the Texas law firm Thompson & Knight, and will focus on...
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Nov 09 2011
K&L Gates has announced the launch its first office in South America in São Paulo, Brazil. The new office will operate under Brazilian Bar Association rules as a...
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Oct 10 2011
Norton Rose has announced the conclusion of merger negotiations with Canadian firm Macleod Dixon, agreeing to tie up with the firm in January 2012.
The alliance –...
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Sep 27 2011
The British Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke expressed his enthusiam last week for the nation’s legal industry, pointing out that the legal sector is one of the most...
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Aug 22 2011
US firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has opened the doors to its São Paulo office, after receiving regulatory approval.
The Brazilian office will be led by...
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Aug 17 2011
Baker & McKenzie has reported growth in gross revenue and average profits per partner in the past financial year.
The firm’s gross revenue hiked 8 per cent to a...
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Jul 12 2011
Davis Polk & Wardwell has hired two of three São Paulo-based Mayer Brown partners ahead of the launch of a new office in the Brazilian city next month. Corporate...
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Apr 29 2011
Revista dos Tribunais – a Brazilian legal resources company acquired by Thompson Reuters last year – is set to launch the first comprehensive online legal research...
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Mar 29 2011
Course of Brazilian Tax Law: limitations on the power of taxation in Brazil
For those who dislike the multidisciplinarity, do not waste your time reading the rest of...
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Mar 22 2011
Since 2005, when the former president of Brazil, Mr. Lula da Silva, decided that the Brazilian big oil company, Petrobras, would build an oil refinery plant at the...
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Feb 21 2011
Dear Connections,
It´s avaiable in our website (http://www.decontilaw.com) the article "Arbitration in Brazil: Law, Economics & Politics", which is about an...
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Feb 21 2011
Davis Polk & Wardwell has announced that it will launch a new office in Brazil later this year.
The São Paulo office will be led by corporate partners Manuel...
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Feb 11 2011
German firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek has announced the formation of an alliance with Brazilian firm Veirano Advogados.
The non-exclusive alliance will allow the...
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Jan 10 2011
The US market promises little growth this year, and law firms are looking to expand in the so-called BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China – along with...
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Oct 19 2010
Jones Day has announced that it will open its second Latin American office in São Paulo, Brazil. Luis Riesgo, chair of Jones Day’s Latin American practice, is set to...
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Sep 27 2010
The future of foreign law firms in Brazil’s growing market is under question after the Sao Paulo Bar Association published an advisory decision – finding that the...
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Sep 07 2010
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is advising Brazilian oil and gas giant Petrobras on a massive $75 billion share sale, which will finance the development of offshore...
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Aug 25 2010
THE JURIDICAL HANDBOOK OF BRAZILIAN INVESTMENT FUNDS
Second Edition.
The Handbook aims, precisely, present the general normative structure and the mechanisms by...
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Jul 29 2010
Interesting article from The Economist about the globalized legal profession. The article looks at some of the remaining barriers to professional mobility inside...
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Jun 04 2010
US-based Baker & McKenzie has called upon a Brazilian energy lawyer to become the firm’s global chairman. Eduardo Leite is currently based in the Sao Paulo office,...
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May 25 2010
DLA Piper is set to expand its operations in Brazil, after announcing the commencement of a cooperation agreement with local firm Campos Mello Advogados. The local...
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Apr 21 2010
New York law firm Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy is set to open a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, pending approval by local authorities. A number of US firms have...
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Mar 12 2010
Six law firms will assist with BP’s $7 billion acquisition of assets in Azerbaijan, Brazil, and the Gulf of Mexico from oil and gas producer Devon Energy....
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Mar 03 2010
DLA Piper has formed an alliance with Brazilian firm Campos Mello Pontes Vinci & Schiller, and is thereby set to establish a presence in Brazil.
The Brazilian...
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Mar 02 2010
>> Newsletter 02-2010 of Brazilian Business Law
NEWSLETTER 02-2010 OF BRAZILIAN BUSINESS LAW
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by Rafael De Conti...
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Dec 28 2009
Mayer Brown expands its presence in South America through an alliance with Brazilian 60-lawyer firm Tauil & Chequer.
Mayer Brown will maintain its Sao Paulo office...
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Oct 08 2009
Shearman & Sterling's partners Andrew Jánszky, Robert Evans and Robert Ellison have advised the underwriters on Brazil’s biggest IPO to date - the $8bn listing of...
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Sep 21 2009
A group for lawyers in Latin America or elsewhere, interested in legal developments and networking in the region.
http://www.lawyrs.net/groups/209/latin-america-law
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Sep 17 2009
Shearman & Sterling and Baker & McKenzie took lead roles in the acquisition of a majority stake in the bankrupt Kentucky Fried Chicken supplier Pilgrim's Pride by...
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Sep 14 2009
Clifford Chance is advising French media company Vivendi on its $2.9bn offer for Brazilian telecom company GVT Holding.
The surprise cash offer by Vivendi could...
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Aug 07 2009
Dears,
As result of my researches on Investment Funds and of my experience as
Business Attorney, I built "A Guide on Brazilian Investment Funds for
foreign...
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Jun 17 2009
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher will launch an office in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Lisa Alfaro, co-chair of Gibson Dunn's Latin America practice group, will relocate to Sao Paulo...
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Feb 09 2009
Skadden Arps, White & Case, Shearman & Sterling and other major U.S. law firms have seen a massive growth in their Latin American M&A business.
Skadden has doubled...
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Jan 06 2009
UK-based international law firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP has announced plans to open an office in São Paulo this year.
The office will open once regulatory...
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Dec 11 2008
Just Skadden six months after Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom launched in Brazil in July this year, the firm has lost its only Sao Paulo partner Jonathan Bisgaier....
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Oct 22 2008
The global law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP, through its affiliated office Tauil & Chequer Advogados, announced the expansion of its São Paulo office with the...
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Oct 01 2008
Allen & Overy has opened its first office in Brazil with the formal launch of its Sao Paulo base on 30 September...
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Jun 10 2008
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is set to become the latest major US law firm to enter the Brazilian legal market when it opens an office in Sao Paulo later this year, the...
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Jun 06 2008
Chadbourne & Parke has confirmed that it is to follow its recent opening in Mexico with an office launch in Brazil. As According to The Lawyer, the firm has confirmed...
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Mar 23 2008
Brazilian law firms specializing in mergers and acquisitions may hire 15 percent to 20 percent more lawyers in 2008 to deal with a wave of corporate takeovers, said...
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