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Skadden, White & Case Guide Citigroup Demerger in Mexico

The separation of Citi’s highly profitable, yet scandal-plagued Mexican unit comes as the banking giant prepares for an IPO of its retail banking business in Mexico.
4 minute read

International Edition

Baker McKenzie, Galicia, Pérez-Llorca and Von Wobeser Promote Partners in Mexico

The firms are preparing to advise more on real estate, trade, tax and disputes in 2025 as investors eye near-shoring opportunities in Mexico despite tensions with the country’s biggest trade partner.
2 minute read

International Edition

Four More Partners Exit DLA Piper Affiliate in Brazil

The partners, who are all women, specialize in M&A and other corporate matters and have formed their own firm.
2 minute read

International Edition

Mexican Lawyers On Speed-Dial as Trump Floats ‘Day One’ Tariffs

The threat of a 25% tariff on all Mexican goods has businesses and Mexican government officials scrambling for solutions.
3 minute read

International Edition

DLA Piper Appoints New Co-Managing Partners for Peru Office 

The global firm has also brought on a five-person tax team in Peru, a country DLA Piper entered in 2017 via a merger with a local firm.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Merciless' Filing Deadline Dooms Cuban Americans' Property-Trafficking Suit Against BNP Paribas, SocGen

A three-judge panel found that the Helms-Burton Act contains a "merciless" two-year filing deadline that forecloses a series of lawsuits arising from financial transactions that took place between 2000 and 2010.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

U.S. Eleventh Circuit Remands Helms-Burton Trafficking Case Involving Confiscated Cuban Port

”I expect to see many more cases like Del Valle and this one," said Bob Jarvis, an international litigation professor at Nova Southeastern University. "Of course, such cases will make a thawing of the U.S.-Cuba relations even harder to achieve, but the incoming administration has no interest in a thaw."
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Eversheds Sutherland Adds Hunton Andrews Energy Lawyer With Cross-Border Experience

Alexander Choinski, who joined Eversheds Sutherland on Tuesday as a partner in Houston, previously worked for law firms and the Exxon Mobil Corp. legal department.
3 minute read

International Edition

Big Law Heavyweights Wrestle in High-Stakes Sale of Venezuela’s Citgo

A former Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom partner is managing the sale of Venezuela’s prized international asset, whose sale is being sought to settle debts owed to claimants represented by firms including Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Concerns are mounting about the case's mounting legal costs.
4 minute read

International Edition

Mexico Dissolves Antitrust Authority in Setback to Competition

Competition matters are to be overseen by agencies that report directly to the federal government, raising concerns that decisions will no longer be independent.
2 minute read

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