Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Firm Details: 

Chief Executive Officer: Brian L Duffy

Co-Chairs of the Latin America Practice: José Raz Guzmán, Marc M Rossell, Antonio Peña

Firm Overview: 

Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2650 attorneys in 47 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on theAm LawGlobal 100 andNLJ500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 5.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab.The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is amember of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program.The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono.

Web: www.gtlaw.com.

Greenberg Traurig’s award-winning Latin America Practice draws on resources from our offices in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Washington D.C., and elsewhere around the world, bringing together a multidisciplinary team of more than 120 lawyers to help clients identify and capitalize on business opportunities in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Caribbean. Since the founding of the firm, Greenberg Traurig has been inextricably linked to Latin America and has represented many of the family enterprises that are today among Latin America’s largest companies. By addressing real-world problems for clients on a regular basis, our team has developed a breadth of experience in Latin America that sets us apart.

Offices:  

Albany, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Austin, Berlin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Delaware, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Las Vegas, London, Long Island, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Minneapolis, New Jersey, New York, Northern Virginia, Orange County, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tallahassee, Tampa, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Warsaw, Washington, DC, West Palm Beach, Westchester County.

Practice Highlights & Industry Sectors: 

Leveraging decades of experience, GT's team has worked on some of the region’s most important deals and transactions in nearly every Latin American and Caribbean jurisdiction across a broad range of industries, including: agribusiness, airlines, financial institutions & insurance, food & beverage, healthcare, infrastructure, manufacturing & heavy industries, real estate, telecom & media, among others.

The firm's Latin America team works closely with attorneys across all of its practice groups, including the corporate, M&A, capital markets, banking & finance, regulatory & compliance, energy & infrastructure, restructuring & bankruptcy, immigration & compliance, and international arbitration & litigation teams.

Main Areas of Practice: 

Mergers, Acquisitions & Corporate: 

GT advises Latin American, US, and multinational public and private clients on strategic merger and acquisition transactions, including joint ventures, asset dispositions, and purchases, spin-offs, going-private transactions, and related acquisition financing facilities.

Private Equity & Venture Capital: 

GT represents venture capital and private equity firms, fund sponsors, registered investment companies, and investment advisers in connection with fund creation, capital formation, portfolio management, capital raising, and corporate transactions throughout Mexico and Latin America.

Capital Markets:  

GT advises issuers, initial purchasers, underwriters and placement agents on IPOs, follow-on offerings, and high-yield debt offerings, and in structured securities (CKDs, CERPIs, and FIBRAs). The capital markets attorneys have been involved in notable offerings out of Mexico and Latin America.

Banking & Finance:  

GT advises domestic and international banks, financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity sponsors and borrowers in virtually every type of lending transactions, including acquisition and recapitalisation financings, cross-border financings, credit facilities, leverage finance matters, asset-based financing, mezzanine financing among other loan agreements.

Energy & Infrastructure:  

GT provides full-cycle counsel to Latin American and other international infrastructure and energy clients doing business in Latin America and the region, from turn-key project development and redevelopment to financing, implementation, and operation and maintenance with experience representing clients in public-private partnership transactions (PPP).

Real Estate: 

GT's award-winning real estate practice represents developers, investors, financial institutions, and others in the sale, purchase, financing, and development of retail, land, office, residential, industrial, mixed-use resorts, and hospitality properties. Attorneys advise their clients in a wide range of real estate development financing and corporate structures, as well as leases, restructurings, and workouts.

International Trade:  

The team counsels clients on trade policies, remedies, negotiations, disputes, trade agreements, antitrust matters, and US embargo regulations.

White-Collar Defence & Compliance Investigations: 

GT’s multidisciplinary team has extensive experience designing and implementing global corporations’ anti-corruption compliance programs based on international laws and standards, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Attorneys conduct risk assessments, advise on financial controls, audits, and investigations.

Technology, Media & Telecommunications:  

GT advises technology, telecommunications, internet, e-commerce, and electronic media companies on a broad spectrum of business transactions and other legal and regulatory issues, guiding them through the business growth cycle for a variety of technologies.

Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity: 

The team develops strategies to address privacy, data security, and information management issues including privacy audits, policies and procedures, compliance with privacy and data security laws and industry standards, record retention/electronic discovery, cross-border data transfer, data breach readiness, and response.