Outbound investments into Latin America

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    A pan-American overview for Chinese investors. By Juan Martín Perrotto and María Verónica Iezzi*, Uría Menéndez Latin American Network

    Legal system overview

    Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela (the Latam Countries), as with all the other Latin American jurisdictions and mainland China, have a continental legal system. Further, if their legal systems are taken at face value, it becomes apparent that laws seem to be virtually copied from one country to another, a feature that seems likely to stem from their common Spanish legal heritage.

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