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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

Daily Business Review

These Law Firm Leaders Are Optimistic About 2025, Citing Deal Pipeline, International Business

Greenberg Traurig and Holland & Knight leaders say they expect more opportunities in the new year, despite Trump's tariff plans and tensions with Latin American countries.
6 minute read

Law.com

The Week in Data Dec. 19: A Look at Legal Industry Trends by the Numbers

Catch up on data and insights from across the Law.com Newsroom, including the best firms to work for in the U.K.
1 minute read

Litigation Daily

An ‘Indiana Jones Moment’: Mayer Brown’s John Nadolenco and Kelly Kramer on the 10-Year Legal Saga of the Bahia Emerald

Mayer Brown’s Kramer said that the case shows that countries can coordinate on returning stolen property, but the process is “long and slow.”
6 minute read

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