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INTRODUCTION
You hold in your hands a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guide to inter- national and local law firms active in Latin America’s energy, infrastructure, mining, and precious metals markets. As mining reaches record deal volume in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru and the region’s small but vital jurisdic- tions and as Venezuela ponders its daunting and exhilarating options post- Chavez, global interest in the region is soaring. Law firms of all sizes are engaging in aggressive lateral hiring to expand their Latin America practices, broaden their visibility and win new clients. In just the last few months, even a small sampling of high-profile moves would have to include Mil- bank’s addition of Carlos T Albarracín, formerly of Chadbourne & Parke, as a partner in its global securities group in New York; Jones Day’s hiring of Hector Tinoco, former general counsel to Banco de México and of Al- berto de la Parra, former general counsel of Grupo México, as partners in its Mexico City office; Chadbourne & Parke’s recruitment of former Allen & Overy partner Margarita Oliva Sainz de Aja as a cross-border corporate transactional attorney dividing her time among New York, Mexico City, and Sao Paulo and, on the local front, Ferrere’s addition of banking and corporate attorney Carlos Vasconsellos as a partner based in Asunción, Paraguay. These and other lateral hires and the ongoing opening of Houston and
Miami offices by firms traditionally known for their Wall Street or West Coast focus, should put to rest any doubts that law firms are engaged in a furious race for dominance in Latin American deals. No one who desires to take advantage of the surge of interest in the region should go looking for counsel unversed in what law firms specialize in what matters, or in how to navigate the vast thicket of conflicting and poorly thought out regulations that in a better world would not exist.
Research and results Our exhaustive research into these markets would have been infinitely harder without the gracious cooperation of many of the firms themselves. Dozens of global and local firms completed submissions offering evidence of their recent deals in the region. Our spirited teams of researchers swiftly followed up by intensive interviews of presidents and chairs, practice heads, partners and, no less importantly, clients of the firms, who rounded out our research with quite candid feedback on the work done for them. We have included, verbatim, comments of peers and clients in the profiles filling the pages that follow, omitting neither positive nor, when justified, negative feedback. The transactional evidence and the perspectives of peers and clients in-
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form the profiles of firms in these pages, as well as our assignment of firms into one of three categories: ‘Highly Recommended’, ‘Recommended’ and ‘Notable’. Where the rankings are concerned, we have made these assign- ments to indicate a firm’s capabilities in each of three general areas: Project finance, Corporate, and Disputes. We have also published extensive charts, provided by Dealogic, giving a
breakdown of deals in different sectors and industries over the last five years. Firms, clients, and readers will not always agree upon what deals, mergers,
hirings, promotions, office openings, or other activities best illustrate a firm’s capabilities in a given area. Nevertheless we believe that the approach we have taken in our research is sufficiently broad-based that readers will gain a highly detailed, unparalleled knowledge of what global and local firms are up to in Latin America, what they do best, and in what areas they can fur- ther develop in months to come.
Michael Washburn Editor
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