Drawing on a network of industry leaders, with offices in key Latin America touch points, including Chicago, Houston, London, Miami, Munich, New York, Paris, and Washington, D.C., and with more than 75 lawyers worldwide dedicated to Latin American matters, we assist with inbound and outbound transactions, government relations, disputes, and investigations. Our team includes bilingual and bicultural lawyers fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and attorneys qualified and trained in civil and common law systems.
Our lawyers manage international commercial arbitration, investor-state disputes and arbitrations, domestic arbitration, domestic litigation, and compliance investigations. We have deep connections to business communities, regulators, and decision-makers across Latin America, allowing us to provide practical, commercially grounded advice.
We also serve as external general counsel and provide secondment support, helping bridge civil and common law legal systems.
Our experience includes energy, finance, commodities, construction, investigations, and shipping, and we are consistently recognized for excellence in these sectors.
Our areas of practice include:
- Bankruptcy and cross-border insolvency and restructuring
- Capital markets
- Commodities and trade finance
- Compliance (including FCPA, OECD, UK Bribery Act, and government investigations and sanctions)
- Construction and infrastructure project work
- Coordinating counsel (including local counsel selection and management)
- Corporate (including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestitures)
- Energy projects (including oil and gas, LNG, mining, and renewables)
- Environmental, health and safety, ESG, climate change, and emergency response
- Financing (including restructuring, leveraged finance, acquisition finance, corporate financing, restructuring, and private banking)
- Fintech and payments
- Insurance recovery
- International arbitration and commercial dispute resolution
- International business transactions, regulatory, and international trade
- USMCA
- International taxation
- Political risk analysis and claims
- Ports and maritime
- Project finance and development
- Public policy
- Purchase and sale agreements
- Real estate
- Shipping and transportation
