Latham Again Ranked as a Leading Business Law Firm of Latin America
Latham & Watkins has once again been named to the Latin Lawyer 250, a comprehensive guide detailing the leading business law firms of Latin America by Latin Lawyer magazine. Latham has been consistently featured for depth and diversity of work in the region in M&A, private equity, project finance and infrastructure, capital markets, banking, and arbitration.
In the guide, Latham’s Latin America Practice is recognized for its “dominant position by effectively balancing the benefits that come from global reach with a deep understanding of Latin American legal frameworks and cultures” which is in part because the “practice group is stocked with bilingual and bicultural lawyers who know the region very well.”
In addition to highlighting the firm’s deep roots and contacts in Latin America, the guide recognizes Latham’s expertise as it excels in the broad range of transactional practice areas and sectors that are key to the region including power, natural resources, and infrastructure. The profile also praises Latham’s creativity in the capital markets space for being able to “devise unusual structures not often seen elsewhere” as well as the firm’s “exceptionally high dedication” to our clients.
Latin Lawyer 250 highlights several groundbreaking deals led by Latham’s Latin America Practice, including advising:
- The Carlyle Group on its US$825 million acquisition of Occidental’s entire onshore portfolio in Colombia.
- The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as guarantor, in a US$400 million offering of social bonds issued by the Republic of Ecuador, the first sovereign in the world to issue social bonds intended to finance housing for medium- and low-income families.
- RECOPE, Costa Rica’s State-owned refining company, in a politically sensitive ICC arbitration against CNPCI, the PRC State-owned oil and gas company, in connection with the US$1.5 billion upgrade of Costa Rica’s only oil refinery.
- Multiple parties in the multi-source approximately US$746 million novel financing of the 4G toll road in Colombia.
The Latin Lawyer 250 is the result of more than 20 years of intensive research by Latin Lawyer’s editorial and research team factoring in notable deals, key practice strengths, and comments made by corporate counsel regarding the considered firms.