Monika Gonzalez Mesa

November 01, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The big flashy solar projects were a clue that Latin America's renewable energy sector is booming. Growth in Mexico is a example of what is happening in the region.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

25 minute read

October 27, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Three former Baker & McKenzie attorneys have formed a new Chilean firm, Ugarte Ried y Correa, to focus on antitrust and arbitration. One leads an ongoing high-profile antitrust litigation in Chile, another is former counsel to the presidential cabinet and a third specializes in arbitration.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

31 minute read

October 26, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Eleventh Circuit awards a Venezuelan hospital a $21 million judgment against a group the court found conspired to deceive it.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

11 minute read

October 25, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Baker & McKenzie has elected its Latin America tax practice regional chairwoman Simone Musa to head the firm's global tax practice. She's the first woman to be appointed to their global tax practice chairmanship.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

24 minute read

October 24, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The aircraft maker settles allegations it bribed officials in the Dominican Republic, Saudi Arabia and Mozambique to win government contracts.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

8 minute read

October 24, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Jose Martin Davila, director of compliance for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide in the Americas and French Polynesia, has joined Squire Patton Boggs as of counsel in the firm's government investigations and white collar practice in Miami.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

5 minute read

October 20, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Baker & McKenzie Executive Committee Chairman Eduardo Leite will step down at the end of October after six years in that post to focus on the firm's growth in Latin America and New York.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

25 minute read

October 20, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Sergio Alvarez-Mena, the former head legal counsel for the 11 U.S.-based private bank offices of Credit Suisse Securities, has joined the financial institutions litigation and regulation practice at Jones Day's Miami offices.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

5 minute read

October 19, 2016 | Daily Business Review

At a time when Russia is accused of hacking U.S. elections systems and servers to influence the outcome of the U.S. election, and the U.S. has hinted of cyber retaliation, Moscow has announced it is considering re-establishing a presence in Cuba. While the intent of such a presence is not fully clear, from a base in Cuba, Russia could more easily eavesdrop on U.S. military and commercial communications. Some speculate whether Russian expansion may be fuel for detente with Cuba.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

7 minute read

October 11, 2016 | Daily Business Review

A judge has determined the copyrights to the telenovela that gave birth to the current U.S. television series "Jane the Virgin" belongs to RCTV networks and not to a screenwriter who wrote it over a decade ago in Caracas, Venezuela.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

8 minute read