
About
DLA Piper Latin America’s Team offers full-service business legal counsel to domestic and multinational companies with interests in and operations throughout the region. Our integrated approach to serving clients combines local knowledge with the resources of the DLA Piper global platform. With over 400 lawyers practicing throughout Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico, our teams frequently work with our professionals throughout the LatAm region, Iberian Peninsula, and around the globe to ensure our clients receive the depth of service they require to meet their legal and business objectives. DLA Piper assists with business transactions and cross-border disputes throughout Latin America. We handle matters in every country in the region and across every industry sector in which our clients operate. As the level of sophisticated cross-border activity continues to grow throughout the entire region, DLA Piper continues to expand services to clients with a Latin America presence through our cooperation with Campos Mello Advogados in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil and with our DLA Piper multi-disciplinary practice with offices in: - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Lima, Peru - Mexico City, Mexico Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil (Campos Mello Advogados in cooperation with DLA Piper) - San Juan, Puerto Rico - Santiago, Chile Our experience in Latin America includes assisting companies from inside and outside the region with the full range of business, legal and commercial services that DLA Piper provides worldwide: - Capital markets - Compliance and investigations - Energy, mining and natural resources - Family groups - Franchise and distribution - Hospitality management agreements - Inbound and outbound capital investments - Insurance and reinsurance - Intellectual property and technology transfer, registration - International arbitration - Labor and employment, immigration - Litigation - M&A - Market entry - Privacy and data security, e-commerce - Private equity and debt financing - Project finance and public-private partnerships - Real estate investment - Tax structuring, transfer pricing, imports and market access issues - Telecommunications, media, and entertainment regulation and licensing A number of our lawyers were born or raised and educated in the region and are fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese. Many have also practiced law in both the US and Latin America and are intimately familiar with civil law systems and with the cultural and legal nuances required to successfully do business in the region. Our strategic relationships on the ground throughout Latin America enhance our understanding of the region and enable us to provide our clients practical, meaningful legal advice. DLA Piper’s global platform of 90+ offices in more than 40 countries enables us to serve all of our clients’ legal needs, whether they are based in Latin America or wish to do business there. The United States, specifically New York and Florida, has deep economic and cultural ties to Latin America. After many decades of being at the center of the most complex cross-border matters related to Latin America, New York law is firmly established as the most widely accepted applicable/governing law on cross-border transactions related to Latin America. Our US based team of Latin America practitioners regularly acts as lead counsel on a wide range of cross-border matters in Latin America, ranging from complex capital markets, finance and M&A matters to public private partnerships and market entry and establishment issues. For more information, visit https://www.dlapiper.com/en/latinamerica/ ### Staffing Figures - 37 Other fee-earners
Office locations
Mexico City
Mexico City
DLA Piper Mexico Paseo De Los Tamarindos No. 400 A Piso 31, Bosques De Las Lomas México, Df, Cp, 05120 Mexico City Mexico
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Adolfo Suarez
Associate · Civil Litigation
Aldo Ramírez
Associate · Corporate
Alvaro Garza
Partner · Mergers and Acquisitions
Andrés Calderon
Associate · Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions
Antonio Cárdenas
Partner · Amparo Proceedings
Carlos Bocanegra
Associate · Environment
Daniel González Estrada
Partner · Complex Litigation
Diego Martínez
Partner · Corporate Finance
Edgar Romo
Co-Managing Partner · Corporate
Eduardo Gallastegui
Associate · Corporate Law
Fernando Osawa E
Associate · Bankruptcy Litigation
Gabriela Álvarez-Ávila
Partner · International Arbitration
Guillermo Aguayo
Partner · Tax
Iker González Luna
Associate · Corporate
Irene Cuéllar Araiza
Associate
Javier Pichardini
Associate · Structured Finance
Jorge Benejam
Partner · Mergers and Acquisitions
Jorge Flores
Associate · Tax
Juan Pablo Moyano
Of Counsel · International Commercial Arbitration
Kate Brown de Vejar
Partner; Global Co-Chair of DLA Piper's International Arbitration Practice; US-LatAm Practice Group Regional Co-Leader of DLA Piper's International Arbitration Practice · International Arbitration
Manuel Dominguez
Associate · Mergers and Acquisitions
Maria Gabriela Alaña Castro
Partner · Data Privacy
Mariana de Maria Y Campos Llorente
Associate · Corporate
Mauricio Sandoval
Associate · Environmental Law
Mauricio Valdespino
Co- Managing Partner · Corporate Law
Paulina Muñoz
Associate · International Arbitration
Raquel Ortiz Garrido
Associate · Labor & Employment
Regina Esparza
Associate · Antitrust and Competition
Ricardo Alarcón
Of Counsel · Litigation
Ricardo Mendoza
Associate · Tax
Roberto Ríos
Partner · Project Development
Yesica Garduño
Senior Associate · Mergers and Acquisitions
Álvaro Sarmiento
Partner · Finance