Latin America

We advise high-net-worth individuals, businesses, and financial institutions located or with interests in Latin America on cross-border investment structures and tax strategies, succession planning, asset protection and transfer, and compliance with international regulatory standards. Our team regularly counsels on the use of trusts, foundations, holding companies, and other structures to preserve wealth across generations and jurisdictions while minimizing tax exposure and ensuring compliance with local reporting requirements.

We represent businesses and investors in high-stakes international arbitration and complex, cross-border litigation across a number of industries, including real estate, energy, financial services, transportation, technology, and life sciences. Our team serves as trusted advisors before, during, and after disputes arise-from risk assessment and pre-dispute counseling to arbitration, mediation, special masterships, and enforcement of awards. We regularly appear before leading arbitration institutions such as The International Court of Arbitration (ICC,) the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID,) and other Latin American arbitration forums.

We advise companies, investors, and financial institutions on restructuring, negotiating, and closing complex inbound and outbound transactions involving Latin America. Our team integrates corporate, tax, regulatory, and compliance capabilities—including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) guidance and Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) diligence, filing, mitigation planning, and implementation—and dispute resolution experience to support clients through every stage of the deal, from market entry and entity structuring, to joint ventures, strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, financings, and exits.

We counsel landlords and tenants, owners and developers, investors and lenders, and other parties in the commercial real estate space on opportunities involving interests both domestic and international, requiring seamless coordination between US and Latin American markets. Clients rely on our lawyers to structure transactions covering all aspects of commercial real estate—acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, financing, development, joint ventures, and distressed debt matters—while ensuring compliance with tax, zoning, and regulatory requirements, including know-your-customer and anti-money laundering rules, and resolving any contractual disputes.

Recognized in Chambers USA, our IP team is admired for its responsiveness, technical experience, deep bench, and pragmatic approach to growing and protecting our clients’ innovations. We guide clients through trademark selection, clearance, and enforcement to ensure proper usage and protection of trademarks, copyrights, and trade dress in the United States and abroad. Our team represents clients in inbound matters, including IP litigation before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and litigates trademark, copyright, patent, trade dress, and unfair competition disputes in federal courts, and domain name disputes via Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy arbitration. We also advise on and negotiate international IP licensing programs and combat counterfeiting through litigation and enforcement activities.

We help employers, entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals navigate the evolving immigration landscape with clarity, confidence, and compliance-whether expanding a business across borders, relocating and retaining key talent, or staying ahead of policy shifts and enforcement trends across jurisdictions. We advise on immigration-related tax matters, outline the immigration consequences of mergers and acquisitions, represent clients in hearings before immigration courts and appellate bodies, and deliver comprehensive solutions that enable clients to make informed decisions and avoid operational disruptions.

With deep experience advising clients across a range of industries, our Global Trade, CFIUS and Export Controls practice helps businesses navigate the complexities of international trade and cross-border operations. We provide strategic counsel on controlled trade, customs, and tariff matters that are critical in today’s global marketplace.

Our team represents clients in matters involving national security and export controls, including regulatory compliance, government investigations, foreign investments, technology transfers, and other cross-border transactions. We guide clients through the legal landscape governed by key federal agencies and authorities such as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), among others.

In addition to regulatory compliance, we serve as trusted partners in evaluating and structuring global investments, including pre-transaction planning, due diligence assessments, and the implementation of post-transaction mitigation measures to support long-term success and regulatory alignment.

Our team of lawyers and public policy professionals offer lobbying, legislative insight, and regulatory guidance to help clients bridge US policy and Latin American opportunity, and provide counsel to those in Latin America seeking to do business in the United States. Our bipartisan government affairs team advises global companies, trade associations, and public institutions on how to effectively engage with US policymakers to promote cross-border investment, secure favorable trade outcomes, navigate sanctions, address compliance with US laws, and influence policy frameworks.