World BY MARK CARDWELL A
South America may not be the easiest place to do business, but the work and opportunities available for resource- based industries — and the lawyers who represent them — can be most interesting and very profi table.
As point men go, the decision makers at Macleod Dixon llp obviously have a lot of faith in the abilities of Glenn Faass. After fi ve years of living in Moscow, where he ran the Calgary-based law fi rm's offi ce, while co-founding others in Kazakhstan and Mongolia, Faass (pronounced "foss") was sent in 1997 to Caracas, Venezuela, to open yet another offi ce. The move came several years after the country's massive oil and gas industry was opened to foreign
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