Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has a long history in Latin America and a substantial team spread across its New York and São Paulo offices. The firm has worked hard to bring through a new generation of Latin America-focused partners in recent years and the Latin America group has -in turn- successfully leveraged the firm’s global standing in banking and finance transactions. The practice has an outstanding record in syndicated loans and acquisition finance, and evidences an especially strong record in the Southern Cone. Of late, it has worked on financings for some of Latin America’s largest corporates as well as routinely advising many of the world’s leading banks on financings in the region. Members of the core Latin America group are versatile practitioners, operating across multiple practice areas, although both Juan Naveira and Juan Francisco Méndez are particularly noted for syndicated loans and acquisition financings. The wider firm features banking and finance practitioners that also work on Latin America financings, including a team that advised JP Morgan on LATAM Airlines Group’s $3.7bn DIP term loan agreement. January 2023 saw the retirement of Jaime Mercado as a partner (although he remains at the firm as an of counsel); and the promotion of Borja Marcos – who has a strong record in Latin America financings – to the partnership. Named individuals are based in New York.