Monika Gonzalez Mesa

December 05, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Late Daily Business Review Reporter Julie Kay will be honored with a posthumous award in March on International Women's Day.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

3 minute read

November 30, 2016 | International Edition

A decade-old case alleging that Chiquita Brand International financed Colombian death squads will move forward in U.S. courts after a federal judge on Tuesday rejected the company's argument that lawsuits filed against it by thousands of victims of Colombia's violent paramilitary groups should be heard in Colombia.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

8 minute read

November 30, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A federal judge has ruled that lawsuits filed against Chiquita by families of victims of Colombian paramilitaries paid by Chiquita to protect its former workers and banana farms from other paramilitary groups will be heard in the U.S., not in Colombia, as Chiquita had proposed. But nearly 2,000 additional plaintiffs first named in an amended complaint in missed the statute of limitations.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

7 minute read

November 29, 2016 | Daily Business Review

New tax regulations will affect companies and those who buy real estate through corporate structures and make loans and disbursements between related companies.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

9 minute read

November 29, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

For lawyers assessing how Fidel Castro's death might affect economic and other relations with Cuba, the answer is a seeming paradox: It means both very little and a lot.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

22 minute read

November 28, 2016 | New York Law Journal

For lawyers assessing how Fidel Castro's death might affect economic and other relations with Cuba, the answer is a seeming paradox: It means both very little and a lot.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

22 minute read

November 24, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A New York legal team represents the owner of the biggest power plant in Trinidad and Tobago on a $600 million international bond offering.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

10 minute read

November 23, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Prominent international arbitrator Jose Astigarraga credits his family's history as Cuban refugees for teaching him the importance of foresight, which has driven his life and career.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

16 minute read

November 17, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

A new arbitration center in the British Virgin Islands has formally opened for business. And some high-profile figures in the arbitration world are getting behind the effort.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

4 minute read

November 17, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Representing Pacific Exploration & Production, a small army of Proskauer Rose lawyers negotiated the largest restructuring of debt in Colombian history: $5.5 billion.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

8 minute read