Isabella Ankerson

Mexican Elite firm Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC has expanded its litigation offering by hiring a large group of lawyers from local boutique Martínez Algaba de Haro y Curiel – including seven partners.

Creel García-Cuéllar's managing partners Carlos Aiza and Jean Michel Enríquez and Martínez Algaba's managing partner, Javier Curiel Obscura

Just over a year after it completed its first debt-for-nature swap, three Clifford Chance LLP offices and Bustamante Fabara in Quito have helped the Bank of America grant a US$1 billion loan to the Republic of Ecuador as part of its second deal of this kind, in which it will unlock US$460 million to fund conservation projects in the Ecuadorean Amazon.

Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez SC in Mexico City has helped German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal amend the terms of an existing loan by replacing it with a new €600 million (US$628 million) revolving credit facility.

Brazilian electric utilities giant Eletrobras has called upon Lefosse to swap power generation and transmission assets with local counterpart Copel.

Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas has helped Peruvian fruit producer Agrícola Andrea secure a US$25 million loan.

Demarest Advogados has helped Brazilian transport company EcoRodovias place a winning bid of 2.2 billion reais (US$367 million) for a motorway concession in São Paulo.

Three Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP offices have helped US investor Castlelake grant a US$740 million loan to Latin American airport operator Abra Group as part of a US$1.2 billion refinancing of its aviation assets, which includes Brazilian airline GOL.

Mexican Elite firm Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes SC has bolstered its corporate and M&A, antitrust and data protection offerings by promoting two of its associates to partner and one to the role of counsel.

Argentina’s Pluspetrol has called on two Mayer Brown LLP offices to acquire the local oil and gas operations of US counterpart ExxonMobil.