Latin America Practice

Holland & Knight's Latin America Team is comprised of multicultural and multilingual attorneys, fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, and well versed in cultural differences, which allows us to offer a multitude of services to assist clients across all industry sectors to successfully do business throughout Latin America. We have more than 200 attorneys in the Latin America Practice, which includes members in our Bogotá, Mexico City and Monterrey offices, as well as professionals and attorneys in a number of our United States offices. The firm has a strong, long-standing commitment and connection to Latin America.

Our lawyers have been representing clients with interests in the region for more than 40 years. With our offices in Bogotá, Mexico City and Monterrey, we have built an extensive support network across the region, as well as forging long-standing relationships with nearly all of the principal law firms throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean. Our decades of experience in the region, combined with our extensive interdisciplinary practice and our regional and global networks assure our clients that they will have high-quality resources available to them when and where they are needed.

Our Capabilities

Holland & Knight's Latin America Team advises clients on a broad range of international matters as well as a broad range of regional activities, from establishing a business in an emerging market to expanding the presence of our multinational clients internationally. Our attorneys assist clients with mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity investments, international finance transactions, project finance, international taxation matters, regulatory and government matters, and international arbitration and dispute resolution. In addition, we provide comprehensive counsel for a broad range of international commercial and corporate transactions, labor and employment, intellectual property (IP), and regulatory and administrative matters, among other areas.

Bogotá Office

In 2012, we significantly expanded the breadth of our Latin America Practice capabilities with the opening of our Bogotá office. Holland & Knight is among the few U.S.-based law firms with an office in Colombia that offers a full range of legal services. Holland & Knight's Bogotá office provides high-quality counsel to companies doing inbound and outbound business in the region and abroad, in all aspects of their business operations. We regularly advise clients in transactional matters and international disputes, including cross-border deals and international trade; mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures; oil, gas and mining projects; environmental assessments, liability concerns and compliance; taxation; labor law; capital markets, venture capital and private equity investments; international licensing and franchising; project finance and foreign investment; complex corporate reorganizations and financial restructurings; IP, competition and antitrust matters; and litigation and arbitration.

In addition, our attorneys provide regulatory advice to foreign companies doing business in Colombia, as well as Colombian companies doing business abroad. We have one of the country's leading energy, natural resources and environmental practices, which includes regulatory and other local advice.

Mexico City and Monterrey Offices

Holland & Knight is one of the few U.S.-based law firms with a full-service offering in Mexico. Our team in Mexico City and Monterrey is an integral part of our Latin America Practice, has substantial experience across all Mexican business sectors and is enhanced by our established working relationships with leaders in Mexico's business and government areas.

Our attorneys routinely assess the complexity and skills required for each particular case, providing tailored legal advice as well as a full service and synergetic approach in order to best meet our client needs. Our attorneys have robust experience representing international and local clients across many industries in local and cross-border transactions. We promote teamwork and routinely employ collaboration among our corporate and financial services groups with various industry sector practices, a strategy that has allowed us to expand our service coverage and increase our attorney and legal professional head count by more than 60 percent during the last several years.

In addition, our attorneys have assisted the Mexican government in the analysis, design and drafting of key legislation and regulation currently in place, as well as with the implementation of several infrastructure projects. The Holland & Knight Mexico team was a leading participant in the formation of the Mexican securitization industry, and has provided representation in several first-ever transactions. In many cases, the structures that our Mexico team has designed for several large-scale transactions are now considered to be standard in the financial markets. 

Leading Lawyers on Your Side

Members of Holland & Knight's Latin America Team have been selected for inclusion in leading industry publications based on their work in the region. A number of our attorneys are ranked in Chambers Latin America, Chambers Global, Latin Lawyer 250, IFLR1000, The Legal 500 Latin America, The Best Lawyers in Mexico and The Best Lawyers in Colombia.