Latham Honored by Chambers Latin America 2026

Latham & Watkins has once again been recognized by Chambers Latin America for outstanding work and client service across Latin America. This accolade highlights the firm’s profound understanding of the region’s legal intricacies and its ability to provide exceptional, tailored advice to clients navigating complex challenges.

The firm’s practices and individual lawyers achieved notable rankings across key practices, including: Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A, International Arbitration, and Project Finance.

Chambers Latin America praises Latham’s “deeply admired” transactional practice and its “impressive track record acting on major cross-border corporate transactions” across the region, noting the firm “remains a go-to team for blue-chip corporations and leading private equity houses” and “routinely sought after to advise corporate issuers and financial institutions.” Chambers also lauded Latham’s “respected disputes practice” for its “consistent track record of advising on Latin American arbitration mandates,” its “long-standing experience representing prestigious corporations,” and its “significant expertise assisting private and state-owned companies with a wide range of commercial claims.”

Chambers Latin America quotes clients as praising Latham for having “a multidisciplinary team with remarkable transactional capabilities, boasting promptness, business orientation, and a focus on solving the difficulties that arise.” One client notes, “Latham & Watkins is quite simply amazing. The team has extremely deep knowledge, experience and the ability to handle tasks in extremely short timeframes.”

The individual lawyers ranked this year include:

• Carlos Ardila: Corporate/M&A and Project Finance
• Santiago Bejarano: International Arbitration
• Roderick Branch: Capital Markets
• Antonio Del Pino: Corporate/M&A
• Guido Liniado: Project Finance
• Fernando Mantilla-Serrano: International Arbitration
• Marcela Ruenes: Banking & Finance

Latham was shortlisted for International Arbitration Law Firm of the Year and International Project Finance Law Firm of the Year at the Chambers Latin America Awards 2026, being one of the few firms nominated in multiple categories. Latham is also regularly lauded by Chambers around the world for its cross-border prowess, having received more practice and lawyer rankings than any other firm in the Chambers USA guide for more than a decade and having obtained more than 90 Band 1 rankings in the most recent Chambers Global guide.

The annual directory program acknowledges, ranks, and reviews the leading law firms and lawyers across 19 jurisdictions in the region.