Monika Gonzalez Mesa

September 19, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

An arbitration stemming from Chile's 1973 expropriation of a newspaper during the coup d'etat that toppled then-Chilean President Salvador Allende has concluded with an arbitral tribunal siding with the current Chilean government.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

15 minute read

September 15, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The former general counsel for international trade in Mexico's Ministry of Economy has joined Holland & Knight's Mexico City office as senior counsel.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

9 minute read

September 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

California-based Sempra International has agreed to a $852 million deal to purchase one of Latin America's largest wind farms in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, from a subsidiary of New York-based Blackstone Group and other partners.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

13 minute read

September 14, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The Brazilian arm of Mayer Brown has opened a new office in Brazil's capital and hired the former attorney general and defender of ousted president Dilma Rousseff to focus on cases in the Superior Court of Justice and Supreme Court.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

21 minute read

September 09, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The U.S. has formally ratified a convention that is expected to make it harder for a parent who owes child support to hide abroad.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

8 minute read

September 08, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The University of Miami School of Law's investor rights clinic receives $107,282 from the settlement of a class action lawsuit against Regions Bank related to U.S. Pension Trust's fraudulent sale of unregistered securities in the 1990s.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

5 minute read

September 07, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Carlos Padilla moves from Bogota's Castro Leiva Rendon Criales to growing global firm Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uria.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

2 minute read

September 07, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Ruben Diaz Jr. leaves the Nicaragua-based conglomerate to take a new post as co-chairman of Hughes Hubbard & Reed's Latin America practice in Miami.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

11 minute read

September 06, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Growing up in rural Jamaica, Bacardi North America Vice President and General Counsel Marlene Gordon didn't have electricity or running water. But with a tangible lesson in the value of self-determination, Gordon's young mother gave her a degree of empowerment perhaps uncommon among girls growing up in rural poverty.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

15 minute read

September 06, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Attorney Luis Salazar offers tips for pinning down contracts when online data is collected in Latin America.

By Monika Gonzalez Mesa

12 minute read