Practice Areas & Industries: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Manatt’s Latin America practice group attorneys use their experience and market knowledge to assist clients in identifying and implementing solutions to the challenges of creating, maximizing and preserving value.

A coordinated team of Manatt lawyers with current experience in Latin America deals with cross-border finance.  The team also addresses crisis situations for both companies and international investors.  The mixture of talent, experience and success in navigating legal, business and political issues uniquely qualifies us to help clients manage problems with insight and creativity and to maximize opportunities and protect investments in the Latin American finance marketplace.

Common to the group’s seasoned lawyers, including lawyers dually trained in common and civil law legal systems, and experienced senior diplomats and public servants, is fluency in the languages and cultures of the Americas.  We work in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.  We regularly handle complex cross-border financial and commercial matters, including securities, lending, and workout and financial restructuring matters, as well as investment matters into and out of the leading economic markets of the hemisphere.  We specialize in addressing complex problems, managing crises, and assisting clients with high stakes situations.

As and when clients desire the further strategic advice and advocacy services of our affiliate, ManattJones Global Strategies, LLC, our lawyers draw upon its additional political, diplomatic, and international business experience.