LatAm Desk
We have extensive experience in legal consulting, both for clients who wish to carry out some sort of investment or operation in Latin America and for clients from the South America with interests in Spain.
We have extensive experience in legal consulting, both for clients who wish to carry out some sort of investment or operation in Latin America and for clients from the South America with interests in Spain.
From our offices in Barcelona and Madrid, Santi Pagès and Marlen Estévez head a multidisciplinary team of lawyers with experience and education in Latin America. In collaboration with the leading firms in each and every Latin American jurisdiction, we provide comprehensive legal consulting on operations and investments on both sides of the Atlantic. Our knowledge of different countries, both from a cultural and regulatory perspective, allows us to offer tailor-made consulting for each and every case, in order to meet your needs in a quick, efficient and quality way. We provide you with the key information you need to make your business decisions.
Specifically, we have strong experience in advising Spanish companies with interests in Latin America and Latin American companies who want to invest in Spain by formalising sales, distribution, agency or franchise agreements. We also diligently advise on preventing and resolving disputes on both sides of the Atlantic, either by forming a permanent establishment, by incorporating and/or purchasing of a company under different corporate and tax structures or by entering into joint ventures.
In particular, our LatAm Desk provides legal advice on:
• Mergers & acquisitions
• Incorporation of subsidiaries, branches or representative offices
• Property investments
• Agency, supply, marketing or distribution agreements
• Joint ventures
• Incorporation and/or purchase of companies
• Advice on capital entry processes
• Project financing
• Tax planning and consulting
• Dispute prevention and resolution consulting
• National and international commercial and investment arbitration
• Employment law and expatriate management
• Banking and finance
Our recent experience:
•We advised Colombina on the purchase of Fiesta for €16.8 million
•Advising to the Luksic family on the Banco Popular decision
•Advising, along with the firm Tobar&Bustamante, to Servistal S.L.U. (Palex Group) on the incorporation of a joint venture with a local partner in Ecuador (60% for the Spanish group)
•Advising, along with the Brazilian firm Veirano, to the international Lediberg Group on the restructuring of its Brazilian subsidiary, the publisher Pombo Lediberg LTD
•Review of conflict resolution clauses for Pullmantur