Corporate law in Latin America

    Our corporate lawyers provide expert advice on many of the most complex transactions - frequently with a cross-border perspective. We specialise in providing a seamless service across our network of offices and across practice disciplines.

    As industry sectors around the world consolidate, our clients increasingly look to us to advise them on a wide range of investment opportunities including mergers, acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures around the world. While businesses are global, regulation remains national, or at best regional. Today, large transactions require in-depth local expertise co-ordinated within a single law firm; we provide this service. We have many corporate lawyers who operate in civil law environments and are experienced in adapting Anglo-Saxon transaction style and methodology to civil law situations.

    We have acted for governments, privatised companies, purchasers, financial advisers and underwriters on hundreds of privatisations around the world. We have been involved in many large-scale international equity offerings and can provide the innovative underwriting structures and high level of due diligence required for such projects.

    For more information please refer to the section on our global corporate practice.

    For further information please contact Christa Crane, business development manager.

    Recent corporate projects

    Some recent examples of our corporate work in Latin America include acting for:

    • Monitor Clipper Partners on the acquisition of an indirect percentage in Codere, a gaming company in Spain with a leading position in Latin America, including subsidiaries and joint ventures in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Venezuela;
    • a German oil and gas company on the acquisition of an interest in an offshore Argentine oil and gas field (Rio Chico);
    • the investors in a €10bn US and European commercial paper programme in Brazil;
    • Banco de Chile, the first Chilean company to list in London, on the secondary listing of its American Depository Receipts on the London Stock Exchange;
    • Valores Bavaria on its joint venture agreement with Spanish media group PRISA to create a major radio station in Latin America (Grupo Latino de Radiodifusión);
    • Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia on two securitisations of coffee export receivables of the National Coffee Fund of Colombia; and
    • Gaz de France on the acquisition of two Mexican gas pipeline projects from a Canadian operator.

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