Hogan Lovells opens a Sao Paulo office (its second in Brazil in six months) and hires former Clifford Chance partner Isabel Costa Carvalho; Shearman & Sterling secured a favorable Circuit Court decision for Spain-based Abengoa in a long battle over the enforcement of two ICC arbitration awards related to Brazil and Simpson Thacher advises the Ibáñez brothers in Chile on their $1.5 billion share sale to Walmart and Mexico-based Conmex on its $1.4 billion debt refinancing.

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Keywords: Abengoa, Brazil, Clifford Chance, Conmex, Hogan Lovells, Shearman & Sterling, Simpson Thacher, Walmart