Legal insights on issues important to Latin America
By: Nicolas Teijeiro | Jorge Timmermann | Stephen P. Alicanti
2020 was a record-breaking year for special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs): more than 248 SPACs completed initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States, raising…
Continue Reading What is a SPAC? The basics, when you are contemplating going public
By: Felipe Hermanny
Last Friday, June 4, 2021, Brazil took an important step towards promoting international commerce, entering the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, known as the Singapore Convention. This…
Continue Reading Brazil joins the Singapore Convention
Click here for the full content of DLA Piper Latin America’s new Tax and Corporate Structuring Insights.
The global pandemic forced Latin American governments to focus on
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Continue Reading Tax Insights: Inaugural Newsletter for LatAm Developments
In Argentina, merger control thresholds and fines for anticompetitive conduct are determined by reference to the value of an adjustable unit (AU), which is subject to annual inflation adjustment. On February 22,…
Continue Reading Argentina: Merger control update
By: Janine Guzman | Mariana Muñiz-Lara
Employers in the private and public sector must comply with new breastfeeding room requirements pursuant to a Guideline issued on February 11, 2021 by the Puerto Rico Women’s Solicitor…
Continue Reading Employers in Puerto Rico must comply with new breastfeeding room requirements
In an extraordinary meeting of its board of directors, Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL) has approved the revised bid tender proposal relating to the 700MHz, 2.3GHz, 3.5GHz and 26GHz frequencies dedicated to 5G.
In the…
Continue Reading Updates on the 5G bid tender in Brazil
By: Janine Guzman | Mariana Muñiz-Lara
Further to the enactment of Act 90-2020 (Act 90), effective since August 7, 2020, employers in Puerto Rico now have until August 2, 2021 to adopt protocols on workplace…
Continue Reading Puerto Rico: Employers must establish workplace harassment protocols – guidelines are available
As part of our ongoing series of infrastructure projects in Latin America, our Active Projects team provides insight in some new announcements in Peru.
As part of the event held on January 21 by the …
Continue Reading PPP: Active Projects, Peru
Our PPP team across DLA Piper Latin America aggregates the announced, prioritized PPP projects in the following regions:
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Continue Reading PPP Projects 2021 Latin America (UPDATED)
By: Daniel Flores
Peru’s new Law 31112 establishes the prior control of business concentration operations.
The new legislation, published on January 7, 2021, repeals Emergency Decree 013-2019 and Legislative Decree 1510, by virtue of which…
Continue Reading Peru establishes prior control of business concentration operations: 10 things to know
