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LACCA would like to welcome November and December’s new LACCA members, from Microsoft, Dell, Citi, and more.

With a top list of speakers including UBS, AmBev, Advent, Wal-mart, Tarpon and Cosan, Latin Lawyer’s M&A Conference is selling out fast, and there are just two weeks to go to buy your ticket.

Corporate partner Daniel Abramovich has left Peruvian firm Payet, Rey, Cauvi Abogados to become general counsel at Edegel, a power generation company belonging to Spain’s Endesa.

A survey released last week by law firm association Lex Mundi and information services company LexisNexis has put Brazil ahead of China and Western Europe in anticipated needs by corporate counsel.

The US$1 billion joint operation agreement with TNK-BP is “of great importance not only for our company but also for the Brazilian oil and gas industry” says an in-house lawyer that worked on the deal with the Russian company.

Earlier this month global bread brand Grupo Bimbo entered the turbulent European market with its acquisition of Sara Lee’s Spanish and Portuguese bakery businesses. But company GC Luis Briola is confident that taking advantage of a cheaper bakery sale is the right move for Bimbo.

LACCA would like to welcome this month’s new members, from Rabobank, Royal&Sun Alliance, Pfizer, AEI, Delphi, Proctor & Gamble, Citibank, and more.

Brazilian pharmaceutical company Aché has hired a new legal affairs director in São Paulo.

The Latin American Corporate Counsel Association is holding meetings in Caracas on 9 November and in Panama, for all Central American members, on 9 December. Reserve your place now.

Latin Lawyer's M&A Conference, taking place in São Paulo on 6 December, has an early confirmed list of speakers including CADE, UBS, BM&F Bovespa, AmBev, Walmart and major local and international law firms.

Pension funds financing the building of prisons and Colombian banks targeting Central America were among the developments in Mexican and Central American project finance discussed by leading lawyers, bankers and regulators at Latin Lawyer’s Project Finance Conference yesterday, all of which generated a lively response from the audience.

Koury Lopes Advogados has hired the former legal director of Monsanto in Brazil as partner to develop the firm’s new technology and innovation practice.

A study published this month by the University of Oxford has revealed the changing power shift from law firms to in-house counsel, as well as the different types of external services providers becoming popular in the US and UK.