PRACTICE

Latin America

Overview

Pierson Ferdinand’s Latin America (“LATAM”) Practice offers clients a rare combination of sophisticated, region-specific experience and the resources of an integrated global platform. Our lawyers spend significant time in the LATAM region allowing us to anticipate business, political, economic, and regulatory inflection points before they emerge in the headlines. By pairing this perspective with the technical depth of a full-service international firm, we help clients manage risk, and capture opportunities across Latin America’s diverse jurisdictions.

  • Full Spectrum of Business Transactions

    Like traditional large law firms, we regularly assist clients in the full spectrum of business transactions and related company matters, a large portion of which involves mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and credit, employment, regulatory, corporate governance and board advisory, intellectual property, and financial restructuring and reorganization, among others.

  • Leveraging Technology

    Our Corporate team leverages cutting edge technology in all aspects of practice and our diverse all-partner teams focus on what matters most to our clients and stakeholders, delivering outcomes through shared values of strength, diversity, and collaboration.

  • Forging Close Partnerships

    We believe in forging close partnerships with our clients to better understand their business operations, enabling us to provide more effective counsel and to deliver exceptional value during pivotal moments that often shape profoundly the trajectory and success of our clients’ businesses.

  • Effective Low-Leverage Platform

    Our unique low-leverage platform is not only more cost-effective, it allows us to focus on fewer, targeted engagements than our peers at traditional, elite law firms. This model allows us to get closer to our clients and to know their businesses, preferences, and cadence, and to ultimately meet our clients where they are.

Capabilities

Many members of the LATAM team hold dual degrees from both civil-law and common-law jurisdictions, which put them in an unique position to translate the region’s distinct legal traditions into actionable strategies for clients operating in, entering, or exiting Latin American markets. Our multilingual fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English facilitates direct communication with regulators and counterparties, eliminating the misunderstandings that often derail cross-border initiatives and positioning us as trusted interlocutors in negotiations that demand both diplomatic subtlety and commercial rigor.

Our partners provide the full spectrum of legal issues that arise in Latin America, including complex M&A, project development, privatizations, capital-markets offerings, restructurings, trade and sanctions compliance. We routinely guide clients through multijurisdictional regulatory issues, investigations, internal reviews, and enforcement actions. When disputes do arise, we represent parties before local courts and international arbitral tribunals—ICC, LCIA, ICSID, UNCITRAL, SIAC, and ad hoc—deploying bilingual advocacy teams that can argue the merits in the language of the arbitration and in accordance with the governing law, whether civil or common.

Drawing on decades of experience in energy, infrastructure, financial services, life sciences, and emerging technologies, we navigate the region’s evolving legal and commercial landscapes with precision, ensuring that clients—including states and states-owned entities—achieve their strategic objectives in Latin America efficiently and with confidence.