Baker McKenzie LLP

Among the international firms, Baker McKenzie LLP has one of the largest teams across Latin America – and this is backed by a substantial group of Latin America specialists in the US. In Brazil, it operates through its cooperation with Trench Rossi Watanabe, which has a wide-ranging M&A practice that includes Anna Mello in Rio de Janeiro and Daniel Facó in Sao Paulo. In Lima, Liliana Espinosa (of associate firm Estudio Echecopar member firm of Baker McKenzie International), has a fine reputation and recently advised Talma Servicios Aeroportuarios on its $163m acquisition of Inversiones Talma from the shareholders of Enfoca Servicios Logísticos. In the US, New York and Miami-based partner Federico Cuadra Del Carmen has a history of working on headline Latin America deals; moreover, the team was significantly enhanced by the arrival of Latin America titan Michael Fitzgerald and a further three partners from Paul Hastings LLP in June 2023, a development that will undoubtedly see a significant upshift in the firm’s engagement in the region from the US.