Haynes and Boone, LLP and Veirano Advogados Conduct a Natural Resources Seminar

WSG member firms Haynes and Boone, LLP (USA, Texas) and Veirano Advogados (Brazil) recently cooperated in presenting a pair of Texas seminars entitled, "Brazil Oil and Gas Developments; Present Scenario and Future Perspectives."

The sessions held in Dallas and Houston explored the energy development opportunities emerging in Brazil, a country that has the 17th largest oil reserves in the world and could rise to 10th with a recent discovery. Haynes and Boone Partner, Larry Pascal, teamed with Luis Fernando Aynes de Mello Pacheco, Partner with Veirano Advogados, to explain how Brazil's resistance to petro nationalism has created a viable market for private company investment and prosperity. The event cooperation is just the latest in a series of engagements between these two World Services Group members. In 2007, the two law firms joined forces to help MMX Mineracao e Metalicos S.A. (MMX), a Brazilian company listed on the Sao Paulo and Toronto Exchange, secure financing of an integrated iron-ore mining and infrastructure logistics project relating to MMX's Amapá mining facility. The work by the two law firms drew praise from "Trade Finance Magazine" which named it one of the "2007 Deals of the Year". To see this Success Story and others

Kocián Šolc Balaštík Utilizes Benefits of WSG Membership

Czech Republic law firm member Kocián Šolc Balaštík recently enjoyed the tangible benefits of WSG membership when undertaking a multijurisdictional survey for a client. KSB contacted 25 WSG law firm members in jurisdictions on four continents with a comparative law survey required for a client's legal strategy on a particular matter. As is generally the case, the desired time frame for turnaround was tight - 24 hours. However as KSB's Sasha Stepanova , who coordinated the survey, comments, "We were delighted by the results - we had a 100% response rate within 24 hours with many members readily going beyond the requested survey answers to additionally provide us with relevant court judgments and journal articles."

Martin Solc, Managing Partner of KSB noted "We were very pleased with the prompt and comprehensive response provided to us by WSG survey participants and this is testimony to the practical benefits of the WSG network". To see this Success Story and others

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