Costa Rica: Tax Administration Clarifies VAT Rules for Free Zone Companies
Costa Rica, EY Law
EY Law - Through official document MH-DGT-CONS-119-0063-2025 (dated September 18, 2025, as provided in the original text), the Tax Administration clarified to a taxpayer, whose company is subject to the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) regime, whether they are required to:
Perform the reverse charge (sel...
Bold acquires VendeMás in Peru
Peru, Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas
Rebaza, Alcázar & De Las Casas - In September of this year, Bold acquired VendeMás, a payment facilitator that -until the closing of the transaction- was part of Niubiz.
Bold is a Colombian fintech that began its operations by offering payment solutions for small and medium-sized businesses in th...
BMV and BIVA publish rules for Simplified Issuances
Mexico, Nader, Hayaux, and Goebel
Nader, Hayaux, and Goebel - The Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) and the Institutional Stock Exchange (BIVA) amended their respective internal regulations to incorporate the provisions applicable to the simplified issuance regime, in accordance with the Securities Market Law and the Single Circular issu...
Trademark cancellation for lack of use, a strategy not always reliable
Peru, OMC Abogados
OMC Abogados - The use of the trademark is the main obligation acquired by the owner, something that is not necessarily fulfilled, especially when the Peruvian Trademark Law, in contrast with the Anglo-Saxon Law, its constitute and obey to the principle of the registration, which means that it is no...
Bofill Mir Leads Smart Fit Chile on $120 Million Syndicated Financing to Fuel Expansion
Chile, Bofill Mir
Bofill Mir Abogados successfully advised its client, Latamfit Chile SpA, the operator of the Smart Fit fitness brand in Chile, as the borrower’s lead counsel in the negotiation and closing of a $120,000,000 syndicated credit facility.
The financing, which closed on September 30, 2025, is pivotal ...
Chilean Wine as a National Beverage: A Critical Look at the Need for Legislative Reform
Chile, Alessandri
Alessandri - As part of the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of National Wine Day—officially established in 2015—on September 2, 2025, a new phase began in the institutional appreciation of Chilean wine with the creation of the so-called Wine Caucus in the National Congress. This body, compose...
Bomchil advises ICBC and Banco de Galicia on the granting of a syndicated loan to Metrogas
Argentina, Bomchil
Bomchil advised Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Argentina) S.A.U. ("ICBC") and Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires S.A. ("Galicia") on the granting of a syndicated loan to Metrogas S.A. ("Metrogas"), the leading gas distributor in Argentina. In this case, ICBC and Galicia granted Metrogas a syn...
Mexico: The New Supreme Court Takes Office
Mexico, Greenberg Traurig
Greenberg Traurig - In compliance with the Judicial Reform approved in September 2024, the new composition of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ("SJCN") began operating on September 1, 2025, modifying the structure and operation of the SCJN as a result of the reduction from eleven to nine j...
Pérez-Llorca Laboral al Día Analyzes Labor Updates: Timekeeping, Parental Leave, and Case Law
Spain, Pérez-Llorca
Pérez-Llorca’s Barcelona office hosted a new session in its "Pérez-Llorca Labor Update" series, which addressed the main regulatory and jurisprudential developments in recent months in the labor and employment field. The session, moderated by Manel Hernández, partner in the firm’s Labor, Compensatio...
Brand Protection in the Digital Age: New Challenges and Opportunities. A Brief Look at the Challenges of the Metaverse and E-Commerce
Guatemala, Alegalis
Alegalis - The digital world has radically transformed the way brands interact with consumers and competitors. The emergence of the metaverse, NFTs, and the expansion of e-commerce have generated scenarios that require new strategies for protecting industrial property. Trademarks, currently more tha...
Initiative to reform the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property
Mexico, Galicia Abogados
Galicia - On September 15, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo sent the Senate the Initiative with Draft Decree amending, adding to, and repealing various provisions of the Federal Law for the Protection of Industrial Property (the "LFPPI" or the "Law") (the "Initiative"). The Initiative proposes, amo...
The IBA Law Firm Management Committee Conference attracts the legal elite with a record-breaking turnout
International Bar Association
International Bar Association — The legal industry in Latin America is on a new trajectory of growth and sophistication, a sentiment that resonated throughout the Law Firm Management Committee Latin America Conference held recently in São Paulo.
Under the theme of "Building the law firm of the fu...
