Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

The firm’s Latin American team has handled matters in every Latin American and major Caribbean country, and has exceptional, longstanding relationships with legal professionals, business leaders, economic groups and governments throughout the region. The firm’s lawyers and other professionals in the practice – most of whom are fluent in either Spanish or Portuguese — understand the intricacies of the local business culture and underlying legal framework. The Latin America practice draws upon the worldwide resources of Hunton Andrews Kurth. The firm represents clients across the full spectrum of industries that make up today’s global economy.

Areas of practice: The Latin America practice is a multi-disciplinary group focused on cross-border matters, including:

Mergers and acquisitions: representation of public and private companies in all aspects of mergers and negotiated acquisitions across a broad range of industries, with a particular emphasis on energy and infrastructure, telecommunications, financial services and consumer products.

Banking and finance: representation of domestic and international lenders and borrowers in a wide range of credit transactions, including secured and unsecured term and revolving loans, bridge financings, syndicated and bilateral transactions, export and import prepayment transactions, and various other financing structures.

Investigations and Trade Regulations: advice, counsel and representation in connection with investigations of US and non-US entities, including multinational corporations, start-ups, high-net-worth families and individual investors, in connection with application of US laws and regulations, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), anti-money laundering statutes, and sanctions regimes under OFAC.

Capital markets: representation of issuers and underwriters in various capital market transactions, including initial and secondary public equity offerings, as well as private placements of debt and equity securities.

Energy, infrastructure and project development: representation of sponsors, equity investors and lenders in every aspect of the development, construction and financing of power generation, transportation, renewable energy, telecommunications, water, natural resources and infrastructure projects.

Transnational litigation and international arbitration: representation of litigants in mediation, arbitration, litigation and neutral case evaluation, as well as representation of multinational clients in connection with significant internal investigations involving operations in Latin America.

Intellectual property: representation of multinational clients in trademark registration, litigation and transactional support; IP-related issues associated with mergers and acquisitions; and IP development, management, protection and monetization.

Clients Include: Banco Santander, SA, Citibank, NA, Grupo Rotoplas, Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura, S.A. (CIFI), IDB Invest, Ferrovial S.A., Banco de Sabadell, SA, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Diageo, Duke Energy Corporation, Banco de la Producción S.A., IberiaBank Corporation, Mastercard, Banesco, SA, MercadoLibre, Inc., Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, SA, Mondelez International, ExxonMobil Corporation, Promerica Financial Corporation, TI Sparkle Americas, Inc., Wärtsilä Development & Financial Services, Inc., Leonardo S.p.A., Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, SA (FCC)