King & Spalding LLP

King & Spalding has made a substantial investment in assuring the Latin America-facing capabilities of the Miami office it opened in February 2022. By transferring a number of partners and attorneys to the city, the firm has rapidly established a substantial (locally based) team, particularly in one of the firm’s standout global practices: international arbitration. Moreover, it has brought in a financing team with the hire of project finance partner Fradyn Suárez from Jones Day and Jessica Mendoza as counsel from White & Case LLP. Suárez is noted for transportation project financings, particularly 4G toll roads in Colombia; and both she and Mendoza are also active in refinancings and acquisition financings involving projects and energy assets. Drawing on the expertise of the wider firm, the Miami group is set to develop further inroads into renewable energy, hydrogen, LNG, telecoms and digital infrastructure. On the international arbitration front, co-leader of the team Henry Burnett relocated to Miami from New York in February 2022, bringing considerable commercial and investment treaty disputes expertise to the office. Craig Miles now splits his time between Miami and Houston, and is another high-profile figure in commercial and investment treaty arbitration across multiple Latin America jurisdictions. Both international arbitration partners are part of larger teams involved in some of the most significant cases related to the region, including Quanta Services’ ICSID arbitration against the Republic of Peru.