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Special Section: 2024 Latin America

In The Daily Business Review's Latin America Special Section, read how Latin America's wealth is generating work for Miami lawyers, how Brazil is becoming a vital LatAm market for U.S. law firms, and also, read about Mexico's new controversial judicial reform and how it will affect investments and arbitration.
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Daily Business Review

International Investment and Dispute Resolution in the Wake of Mexico’s Dramatic Judicial Reform

While the dust settles, companies or individuals doing business in and out of Mexico are paying attention and will seek ways to structure their investments and adjudicate the disputes emanating from them favoring alternative mechanisms such as arbitration.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Judiciary Under Fire: Understanding Mexico’s Controversial Judicial Reform

In one of his final acts as president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador promulgated a contentious judicial reform. López Obrador, whose six-year term ended on Sept. 30, celebrated the overhaul of the judiciary as a necessity and an important legacy of his government. However, the reform has proven deeply controversial, drawing criticism from Mexico’s supreme court—Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), the private sector, and U.S. critics state it erodes checks and balances, weakens judicial independence and threatens democracy.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Brazil Is Quickly Becoming a Vital LatAm Market for Greenberg Traurig, Other US Law Firms

A physical presence in the region's largest economy offers greater comfort to certain clients as well as tax benefits. But other firms are content in serving the country remotely.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Judge Cannon Says She Has No Relationship With Trump and Won't Step Down From Attempted Assassination Case

"I have never spoken to or met former President Trump," Judge Aileen Cannon said in her respose for motion to recuse Tuesday."
5 minute read

International Edition

ECIJA Launches in Peru in Combination with Local Firm

The Spanish law firm continues its rapid expansion with the integration of Lima-based Berninzon & Benavides Abogados.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

'Ill-Gotten Gains'?: Cadwalader Alleges Beef Price-Fixing Conspiracy Hurts McDonald's

Global meatpacking companies have sold wholesale beef at "artificially high, noncompetitive levels throughout the United States" under an unlawful agreement, McDonald's alleges in an antitrust complaint filed by Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
2 minute read

International Edition

IFC Settles With Victims of Palm Oil Project in Honduras

A US court has approved the plan to compensate victims of a violent land-grabbing campaign that plaintiffs argued was aided and abetted by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
3 minute read

International Edition

Hunt for Lithium Puts Latin American Lawyers in the Crosshairs

Parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile form the so-called Lithium Triangle, an area in the Andes that holds more than 50% of the world's lithium deposits.
4 minute read

International Edition

Tie-Up or Break-Up? Latin American Firms Are Doing Both

Being independent allows local law firms in the region to do business with whom they want, when they want, but deprives them of some of the institutional support they might enjoy with a global firm.
3 minute read

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