Practice Areas & Industries: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Bracewell & Giuliani’s Latin America business practice provides a full array of corporate and transactional services throughout the region. Our clients include multinational corporations, governmental entities and multilateral financial institutions. We have advised clients in hundreds of engagements in more than a dozen Central and South American countries, with special emphasis on Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Our team of over 20 highly experienced lawyers is based in our Houston, New York and Washington, D.C., offices. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, among other languages, team members regularly interact with clients and regional counsel in their home countries. Our attorneys are qualified to practice in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, and have access to the firm’s full global resources for energy, finance, tax, transactional and regulatory needs.

Our Latin American clients come from a wide range of industries, including natural resources (including oil and gas, energy and power, and mining), technology and telecommunications, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and finance (including banking and private equity investment). We have particular depth advising clients on power generation projects. We regularly provide guidance to all of our clients on complex corporate financing transactions and general business and commercial matters. These matters range from business combinations to commercial disputes, including litigation and alternative dispute resolution.

We have also developed and maintained relationships with regulators or governmental agencies in various jurisdictions in South and Central America, as well as Mexico. We constantly monitor rule-making activity in the region, and commonly represent our clients in the review of proposed rules and in the presentation of comments either through position papers, response to public consultations or direct contact with regulators and other policy-makers. We have represented clients before the international standard-setting bodies and we have advised clients on numerous cross-border matters. Through this experience, our lawyers are familiar with the many ways to engineer business transactions to comply with applicable regulatory constraints.