Peruvian energy specialist Santiváñez Abogados has strengthened its corporate offering by hiring a name partner and an attorney from Auler & Pinto Abogados. bit.ly/2Gwns7r

Marval O'Farrell Mairal has helped Walmart sell its Argentine operations to local family-owned retailer Grupo de Narváez, as the US retailer continues to reorganise its international assets. bit.ly/2Id9F6H

A UK high court has dismissed a US$6.6 billion lawsuit – the largest group claim in British legal history – against mining multinational BHP over the devastating Samarco Mineração dam collapse in 2015 bit.ly/2JQZMMb

Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites & Arntsen (PAGBAM) has reached an integration agreement with Chilean law firm Schwencke & Cía, in what is thought to be the first time an Argentine firm has opened an operational office outside its home country. bit.ly/3f2xHgB

KLA - Koury Lopes Advogados in São Paulo has helped Brazilian education group Ânima Educação acquire US counterpart Laureate’s Brazilian assets for 4.6 billion reais (US$800 million), outbidding a previous offer made by Ser Educacional. bit.ly/2KhV3DC

Stocche Forbes Advogados has helped Aeris Energy become listed on the São Paulo stock exchange, after a 982 million reais (US$185 million) initial public offering. bit.ly/3nEn1ru

Two Milbank offices and Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados in São Paulo have helped Brazilian retailer Grupo Mateus launch the country’s largest IPO so far this year, raising 4.2 billion reais (US$781 million) bit.ly/39apDt2

Argentina’s second largest city, Córdoba, has hired Hogan Lovells LLP and Córdova Francos Abogados to restructure US$150 million worth of foreign debt, following in the footsteps of the federal government and the province of Mendoza. bit.ly/39e5d2C

Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie International in Lima has helped the Republic of Peru raise US$4 billion in a sovereign debt tap, including its first-ever 100-year bond issuance. bit.ly/3fPYSLX

Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados has hired a former mining partner of McCarthy Tétrault LLP to launch an office in Toronto, a move that is thought to make it the first Brazilian firm to expand to Canada. bit.ly/3g2QhWf

Respected private client partner Humberto Sanches has left Brazil’s Ulhôa Canto, Rezende e Guerra Advogados after nearly 25 years at the firm to launch a boutique, taking the entire practice with him. bit.ly/3lBKlF5

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