LATAM countries your role covers: Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Panama, Brazil

What are the most significant cases and transactions in the LATAM region that you or your legal team have recently been involved in?

In Colombia, we provided legal advice and support in the state tender “LP-DG-0001-2023” convened by SENA (Colombia), to provide technological services nationwide. This project was worth about €231m.

Laws in Mexico were modified, including among others, Federal Employee Law, to enhance all outsourcing service regulations. Therefore, in our transaction in Mexico, we had to reorganise our societies; specifying each of their main activities and merging societies that could provide services jointly. Consequently, we were able to mee out clients’ requirements and needs while complying with Mexican regulation.

In Brazil, we participated in the Petrobrás Service Desk transaction by providing legal assistance on a €73m, 60 months project; the largest service desk agreement for an energy company in Latin America in 2023. We were also involved in the management of about 760 labour lawsuits and complex disputes in Brazil, related to system implementation.

Minsait covers all the needs of the electoral cycle, from the registration of citizens to the analysis of results after the elections, going through the entire service for capturing and disseminating results during election day. In 2023, we provided legal support to the company’s commercial, technical, and financial teams, during state contracting procedures in the pre-contractual and contractual phases for:

The Ministry of Interior, Argentina; provisional counting of votes at the national level in the 2023 electoral process, a project worth about €25m.

In Colombia we participated in a transaction worth approximately €32 million with the National Registry of Civil Status. This involved the verification and national dissemination of the results of the territorial elections to be held in 2023.

In El Salvador, we were involved in a €24 million transaction with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal; the implementation and execution of suffrage abroad in the presidential and legislative elections to be held in 2024.

What are your organisations plans in the LATAM region over the next 12 months and how will your legal expertise help to achieve these plans?

Our goal is to maintain and grow the business. To do this, I plan to provide vision and strategy guidance, acting as a trusted advisor and partner to Minsait teams in client-facing matters.