Lima’s argument that it was ill-served by its lawyers, who lost the Peruvian capital’s legal fight against a Brookfield Asset Management subsidiary over a toll contract, was met with strong skepticism Thursday by a US federal judge.
Lima has been fighting Brookfield for years — with little success — on allegations that a Peruvian unit originally obtained a toll contract through bribery, before the business came under the asset manager’s control. The city’s latest tactic, laid out Thursday in federal district court in Washington, faces an uphill battle, based on the judge’s reaction.