DLA Piper
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Firm Overview:
DLA Piper’s presence in Puerto Rico expands our already significant platform in the Caribbean Basin and across Latin America. Our full suite of business legal services in Puerto Rico offers clients seasoned counsel on a range of matters including corporate, finance, securities, regulatory, tax, restructuring, distribution and dispute resolution. Our practitioners have deep experience in such business sectors as life sciences and pharmaceuticals, healthcare, energy, consumer products, aviation, telecom, banking and finance, insurance, food and beverage, real estate and hospitality. The DLA Piper team in Puerto Rico has also served as lead counsel to both private and public sector clients in some of the region’s most significant infrastructure and public-private partnership projects.
DLA Piper Latin America offers full-service business legal counsel to domestic and multinational companies with interests in and operations throughout the region. Our integrated approach to serving clients combines local knowledge with the resources of the DLA Piper global platform. With over 300 lawyers practicing in DLA Piper Latin America, our teams frequently work with our professionals throughout the Iberian Peninsula and around the global firm to ensure our clients receive the depth of service they require to meet their legal and business objectives.
DLA Piper assists with business transactions and cross-border disputes throughout Latin America. We handle matters in every country in the region and across every industry sector in which our clients operate. As the level of sophisticated cross-border activity continues to grow throughout the entire region, DLA Piper continues to expand services to clients with a Latin America presence through our cooperation with Campos Mello Advogados in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil and with our DLA Piper multi-disciplinary practice with offices in:
- Bogota, Colombia
- Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil (Campos Mello Advogados in cooperation with DLA Piper)
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Lima, Peru
- Mexico City, Mexico
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Santiago, Chile
Our experience in Latin America includes assisting companies from inside and outside the region with the full range of business, legal and commercial services that DLA Piper provides worldwide:
- Capital markets
- Compliance and investigations
- Energy, mining and natural resources
- Family groups
- Franchise and distribution
- Hospitality management agreements
- Inbound and outbound capital investments
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Intellectual property and technology transfer, registration
- International arbitration
- Labor and employment, immigration
- Litigation
- M&A
- Market entry
- Privacy and data security, e-commerce
- Private equity and debt financing
- Project finance and public-private partnerships
- Real estate investment
- Tax structuring, transfer pricing, imports and market access issues
- Telecommunications, media, and entertainment regulation and licensing
Our team is multilingual and never lets language or time zones present a barrier to efficient client service. Having practiced law in both the US and Latin America, the members of our team are intimately familiar with civil law systems and with the cultural and legal nuances required to successfully do business in the region.
Our strategic relationships in countries in which we do not maintain offices enhance our ability to deliver quality business legal services with a keen understanding of local statutes.
Key Contacts
Managing Partner
Nikos Buxeda
nikos.buxeda@dlapiper.com
Deputy Managing Partner
Miriam Figueroa
miriam.figueroa@dlapiper.com
Firm Rankings
Banking & Finance
Band 2
8.0
Corporate/Commercial
Band 2
8.0
Corporate/M&A
Band 3
6.0
Dispute Resolution
Band 3
6.0
Energy & Natural Resources
Band 3
6.0
Government
Band 2
8.0
Labour & Employment
Band 2
8.0
Tax
Band 2
8.0
Lawyer Rankings
Articles
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The Global Anti-Corruption Perspective The fight against corruption and the fight against new forms of money laundering (AML) are issues that should occupy a central place in the public policy agenda of any country. These endeavors are deeply connected. For a government to have better results in tackling these problems, it must put in place a […]
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Merger control is an essential element for any effective competition system, regardless of geography. Although recommended by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) on several occasions,[1] a merger control regime eluded the Peruvian market up until 2021,[2] when – after several bills failed in Congress – Law N° 31112 was finally enacted in January 2021. […]
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has published the latest edition of its Tax Administration Report. According to the OECD, this series of Reports aims to provide information that will facilitate dialogue among tax officials on important tax administration issues. It also identifies opportunities for revenue bodies to improve the design and administration of […]
For more than 60 years, Puerto Rico has used its unique territorial framework to enact numerous tax incentives programs that have served as its main economic development tool. Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, and the majority of US laws apply in Puerto Rico. However, Puerto Rico also possesses the authority to […]
On May 25, 2022, Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (Comisión Reguladora de Energía or CRE) imposed a punishing penalty of more than MX$9.145 billion (~US$450 million) on a major player in the Mexican energy sector. The company holds an electric power generation permit under the self-supply scheme (autoabastecimiento). The CRE declared that the company was restricted to […]
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Press Releases
DLA Piper successfully represented education-focused nongovernmental agency Mexicanos Primero in a lawsuit aimed at preventing cutbacks to the School is Ours program, which extended school hours for students at more than 25,000 schools and gave working parents more time to work to support their families. The lawsuit filed by Aprender Primero, the legal arm of […]
DLA Piper is expanding its Litigation Practice with the addition of Nereida Melendez-Rivera and Sonia Torres-Pabon who focus their practice on white collar defense and corporate investigations. They arrive as partners in the firm’s San Juan office in Puerto Rico. “Our white collar and global investigations practice is growing throughout Latin America, which makes Nereida and Sonia’s move an […]
DLA Piper is pleased to welcome New York-based partners Michael McGuinness and Marcello Hallake to the firm’s Corporate practice. McGuinness and Hallake are leading cross-border and international corporate attorneys focused on high profile global M&A transactions. They each bring more than 25 years of experience leading and managing transformative cross-border M&A transactions and providing high value corporate advice to […]
DLA Piper is pleased to announce several changes to its Latin American practice leadership in its Finance, Litigation and Arbitration, Real Estate and Restructuring practices, as well as several changes to leadership in sectors and special projects for PPP/Infrastructure, Financial Services and Financial Technology, Emerging Growth and Venture Capital, Insurance, Energy and Natural Resources and […]
A DLA Piper team spanning France, the US, the UK, Belgium, and Brazil has advised the Eagle Football group of companies (Eagle Football), a London-based group founded by US digital entrepreneur and football enthusiast John Textor, on Eagle Football Holdings Bidco Limited, completing its acquisition of a significant controlling stake in Olympique Lyonnais Groupe (OL […]
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The local firm was founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs Joaquín Zavala and Santiago Valdés, and several Chilean investors had already joined, such as Pablo Turner and Grupo Prisma, led by Matías Claro. This is the first time that H&M has invested in a Latin American startup. This Monday, a relevant operation materialized in the world of […]
Campos Mello Advogados (CMA), in cooperation with DLA Piper, advised the Miami-based private investment firm 777 Partners in the negotiation and execution of a binding offer for the acquisition of 70 percent of the capital stock in Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama (Vasco), one of Brazil’s most historic football clubs. 777 Partners acquired a […]
November, 2022 – Campos Mello Advogados (CMA), which operates in cooperation with DLA Piper, is expanding its team and further consolidating its full-service approach with the arrival of six new partners today across its Antitrust, M&A, Tax, Litigation and Labor practices. Miriam Machado joins CMA’s M&A practice, adding her vast experience in M&A, reorganizations, private […]
DLA Piper represented Banco Voii S.A. in the issuance of Class VII Short-Term Debt Securities (the “Class VII CDS”) for a total face value of approximately AR$519 million. The Class VII CDS have a term of nine months, amortize in full on the maturity date and accrue interest payable quarterly at a variable annual nominal […]
DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán advised Bancolombia S.A., Banco de Bogotá S.A., Banco de Occidente S.A. and Instituto para el Desarrollo de Antioquia in the negotiation, execution and closing of a facility agreement for the refinancing of the Vías del Nus toll road project, part of the 4G Concession program. The agreement includes the cash out, […]
Campos Mello Advogados (CMA), in cooperation with DLA Piper, advised Grafito Fundo de Investimento em Participações Infraestrutura (Starboard), an investment fund managed by Starboard, in the joint acquisition of the Pampa Sul thermal power plant with Perfin. Starboard and Perfin agreed to acquire 100 percent of Pampa Sul from Engie, one of the largest coal […]
DLA Piper Peru advised Banco BTG Pactual, the biggest investment bank from Latin America, in a syndicated corporate financing granted to La Virgen S.A.C. (“La Virgen”) for a total of up to US$90 million, which will be used for working capital and the prepayment of loans, among other purposes. The loan is backed by a […]
DLA Piper Mexico and DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán represented Acon-Vitalis Investments LLC on the financing granted by Banco BTG Pactual, Banco de Bogotá S.A., Banco de Occidente S.A. and Banco Santander de Negocios Colombia S.A. to several Vitalis companies, to finance working capital needs for US$50 million. Acon-Vitalis is a leading manufacturer and wholesaler of […]
DLA Piper México represents Xinfra Fibra E, the first Fibra E of the year, in its first M&A transaction consisting in the acquisition of a majority stake in the Celaya Highway Project for approximately US$74 million 11 July 2022 DLA Piper México represented Xinfra Fibra E in its acquisition of 90 percent of the capital […]
DLA Piper is expanding its Litigation Practice with the addition of Nereida Melendez-Rivera and Sonia Torres-Pabon who focus their practice on white collar defense and corporate investigations. They arrive as partners in the firm’s San Juan office in Puerto Rico. “Our white collar and global investigations practice is growing throughout Latin America, which makes Nereida and Sonia’s move an […]