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Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s Latin America practice serves as a bridge between the business and legal systems of Latin America and other countries. The team’s knowledge, experience and in-depth understanding of the nuances of Latin American businesses, culture and legal regimes allow us to offer innovative solutions that help clients achieve their business goals. The team is comprised of multilingual attorneys, many of whom were either born in the region or have lived there.

We represent Latin American clients doing business in the United States and around the world, as well as multinational corporations and financial institutions doing business in Latin America. Our Latin America practice brings together lawyers in Miami, New York, Washington DC and other offices across the firm’s global platform, to advise clients in connection with cross-border transactions throughout the region.

Through our strategic cooperation agreement with Saud Advogados, a Brazilian law firm based in Rio de Janeiro, we are able to provide clients with global and Brazilian law capabilities. The firm has also developed close relationships with leading law firms throughout Latin America.

The Latin America practice offers a wide range of legal services, including:

  • general corporate 
  • bank financing and regulation
  • capital markets offerings and compliance
  • corporate governance
  • anti-corruption and compliance (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)
  • mergers and acquisitions
  • joint ventures and other strategic alliances
  • financial restructurings
  • structured and trade finance
  • commercial transactions
  • intellectual property
  • international arbitration and litigation
  • international trade and regulation
  • project finance
  • private equity investments
  • real estate transactions
  • tax

Our clients are involved in a broad range of industries, including: financial services; mining and natural resources; telecommunications and media; energy, including electric power, natural gas and petroleum; infrastructure construction, including toll roads and water works; consumer products; and real estate.

For more information on our Latin America practice, please contact:

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Emilio Saiz

Co-Chair

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Diego Durán de la Vega

Co-Chair

Finance

  • Represented United Airlines, Inc. in a $325 million secured convertible financing for Avianca Holdings S.A. The deal was named the 2019 “Latin America Deal of the Year” by Airfinance Journal and was shortlisted for the 2019 “Deal of the Year” award by Latin Lawyer magazine.
  • Represented the Republic of Paraguay in:
    • its sovereign bond issuance and debt management since 2017
    • the issuance of $732 million in bonds by a special purpose vehicle to finance the construction of the Bioceánico highway, which connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans across South America from Brazil to Chile
    • an unprecedented $657.6 million financing to expand two of the country’s federal highways. Proyecto Chaco was the first public-private partnership in Paraguay and the largest private investment in the history of the South American nation
  • Represented the lenders in a $5 billion revolving credit facility for Petrobras.
  • Represented the lenders in a $1.26 billion revolving credit facility for Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), the Mexican state-owned electric company.
  • Represented the lenders in a $2 billion revolving credit facility for Vale S.A. 
  • Represented the lenders in an $875 million revolving credit facility for Gerdau S.A. and several of its subsidiaries. 
  • We regularly represent lenders and companies in sustainability-linked financing transactions across the region, including, among many others: 
    • Petrobras’ $1.25 billion sustainability linked term loan
    • Inversiones CMPC S.A.’s $100 million sustainability linked revolving credit facility 
    • Suzano S.A.’s $1.57 billion sustainability linked credit facility 
    • Tereos Açúcar e Energia Brasil S.A.’s $310 million and $143 million sustainability-linked export prepayment facilities

Corporate

  • Represented Austrian company Heinzel Holding GmbH, a producer of pulp and packaging paper, in its equity investment in Paracel, a $3.4 billion pulp mill project on undeveloped – or greenfield – land in Paraguay.
  • Represented shareholders of BAC Florida Bank in the sale of the bank to Brazil’s Banco Bradesco. This transaction, Banco Bradesco’s first-ever acquisition in the U.S. market, was named “Financial Services Deal of the Year” in the middle market segment at The Deal Awards 2021 and nominated for “Deal of the Year.”
  • Served as legal counsel to CF Acquisition Corp. V, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by New York investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald in a transaction with Argentina-based Satellogic that took the satellite earth imagery provider public.
  • Assisted CI&T, a Brazil-based information technology and software development company, in its acquisition of NTERSOL, a software engineering and development company geared toward financial services. In addition to bolstering CI&T’s financial services capabilities, the acquisition is also the company’s first in the U.S.

Arbitration

  • Represented a contractor in ICC arbitration involving delays and extra work claims on an offshore pipeline project in Mexico.
  • Represented a South American energy company in an ICC arbitration with a natural gas supplier.
  • Represented a Brazilian aviation company in a AAA-ICDR arbitration arising from sale of a joint venture.
  • Represented a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in an ICC arbitration against a former Colombian distributor of a wide range of its products.
  • Representing one of the largest construction materials companies in the world in a commercial dispute with two thermoelectric energy companies in Mexico, in connection with potential breach of contract allegations. If case goes to arbitration, it will be administered by AAA-ICDR, under Mexican law and seated in Houston.

Litigation

  • Represented the Paraguayan central bank in an action to successfully recover millions in misappropriated assets.
  • Representing a member of one of the wealthiest families in Mexico in a cross-border legal battle in the U.S., Mexico and Cayman Islands for the control of certain family assets.
  • Representing one of the largest distributors of Hispanic foods in Southwest U.S. against Nestle, in a dispute in federal court regarding parallel imports/gray market products.
  • Represented a foreign governmental agency, acting on behalf of Banco Popular del Ecuador, S.A., in obtaining dismissal of a $180 million RICO action filed by the Republic of Colombia based upon the alleged misappropriation of taxes and customs duties.

White Collar, Anti-Corruption and Internal Investigations

  • Representing a Mexican businessperson in connection with parallel DOJ and CFTC investigations into alleged FCPA violations and market manipulation by an international commodities trading company.
  • Representing a Mexican businessperson in connection with a DOJ investigation into one of the largest casinos in the U.S. for alleged money laundering.
  • Assisted Petrobras contractors in connection with Petrobras’ internal anti-corruption investigations related to Operation Car Wash.
  • Conducted post-resolution monitoring of a U.S. specialty chemicals company, including with respect to anti-corruption compliance, internal controls, and financial reporting policies and procedures as applied to its operations in Brazil.
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Diego Durán de la Vega

Co-Chair

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Emilio Saiz

Co-Chair

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Steven I. Chung

Partner

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Mark Denham

Partner

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Gaela K. Gehring Flores

Partner

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Remy Gerbay

Partner

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Gerold Niggemann

Partner

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Timothy J. McCarthy

Senior Counsel

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Nicolas Swerdloff

Senior Counsel

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George Cortina

Associate

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Brian Vaca

Associate

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Lennart Vazzoler

Associate

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