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14 Feb 2012
Three firms boost partnerships
Firms in Brazil, Peru and Mexico have become the latest to boost their partnerships as a busy promotion season continues.
8 Nov 2011
TNK-BP/HRT deal testament to opportunities in Brazil, lawyers say
As BP’s Argentine sale collapses and the dispute between TNK-BP and BP over a deal in the Arctic rolls on, lawyers working on TNK-BP’s purchase of a stake in Brazil’s HRT Participações em Petroleo are calling it a testament to the potential of the Brazilian oil & gas sector.
24 Aug 2011
Korean investments in Brazil rise 213% in 2011
Methodic like Japanese businessmen and bold like the Chinese. That is how corporative consultants define Korean businessmen, whose number has increased in Brazil.
14 Jul 2011
Peak Supply
For a while, Rio de Janeiro seemed to be locked into a downward spiral. Held back by an at-best unimaginative local government, Brazil's former capital remained a must-go gringo destination, but seemed doomed to fade into commercial irrelevance as first the banks and later many companies defected to its roaring monster of a city-cousin, São Paulo. Then, Rio struck gold.
5 Jul 2011
Tango in the Dark
In December last year, the State Grid Corporation of China paid US$1.8 billion for 3,200 kilometres of power transmission lines in Brazil. It was a big step for the largest electricity utility company in the world and a big deal for the many lawyers involved.
30 Jan 2011
"Economic outcome would be the same with a concession"
The government has decided to change the method of exploitation of the pre-salt layer, the huge oil reservoir hidden under the salt layer of the sea, throughout the Brazilian coastline.