Practice Areas & Industries: Carlton Fields, P.A.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Today, we do business in a rapidly accelerating global marketplace - ripe with opportunities, but fraught with complexity and challenge. We understand that it is no longer enough to know and deal with America's local, state, and federal governments.

International success requires international lawyers, skilled counselors who speak the languages, understand the cultures, and know the laws in those parts of the world in which their clients do business. Carlton Fields' International Trade and Transactions Practice provides a wide range of client services to help domestic and foreign companies develop or expand their global operations.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has forged the United States, Canada, and Mexico into an interdependent economic alliance with great promise. The negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) promise to bond the nations of the Americas and the Caribbean into the most powerful economic force in the world. With lawyers fluent in Spanish, our Latin American practice group represents U.S. and foreign clients in Canada, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.

We represent American clients forming corporations, establishing subsidiaries, and participating in joint ventures abroad. We assist foreign companies in establishing a presence in the United States. Moreover, we support foreign and domestic clients in international business matters including sales, construction, manufacturing, development, and financing. When necessary to protect and advance their interests, we also represent clients in international litigation and disputes.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

International Corporate Experience:

• Representation of Latin American DTH systems owner and operator in connection with the acquisition of systems components.
• Advice regarding satellite transponder leases.
• Representation of major U.S. software and hardware manufacturer as its Latin American outside counsel.
• Representation of company in various web based strategic alliances.
• Representation of one of the largest of the Brazilian HMO organizations in licensing its custom software for use in Brazil.
• Representation of plastic products manufacturer as its Latin American outside counsel.
• Represent petrochemical company in negotiation of agency and distribution agreements for Central and South America.
• Representation of a major U.S. health insurance provider as its Latin American outside counsel.
• Representation of joint venture company established by a U.S. oil company and a European industrial company involving supply contracts for petroleum by-products and in connection with the company's operations in a Latin American country.
• Representation of one of the major European oil companies in the negotiation and documentation of a joint venture in a Caribbean nation.
• Representation of Latin America-wide free ISP in the asset acquisition of a competitor and in a merger with a competitor.
• Formation and ongoing representation of U.S. subsidiary of Argentine-based internet company.
• Establishment of joint venture between a Portuguese software distributor and a U.S. software manufacturer for the distribution of software in Brazil.
• Acquisition of a non-U.S. Internet service provider by this U.S.-based cable television company.
• Representation of U.S.-based cable television company in its acquisition and operation of two cable television systems in a Latin American country and in connection with its other holdings in the U.S. and internationally.
• Representation of this non-U.S. cable television company in its acquisition by a major U.S. cable company.
• Establishment of European distribution network for a U.S. testing laboratory.