McDermott Will & Schulte, a global law firm

We tap diverse perspectives across our practices and offices to bring you a multinational perspective on each opportunity and challenge, ensuring that no nuances get lost in translation. Our team is fluent in the region’s languages, laws, politics and customs, ―and includes numerous native Spanish and Portuguese speakers. One of the co-leads of our Latin America Practice is admitted to practice in Mexico, and several of our partners are certified translators in both Spanish and Portuguese. With a significant portion of our team based in Miami, our group is located across the United States and in Europe, including in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris and Washington, DC.

From real estate to manufacturing, technology to retail, and aviation to gaming, we are highly attuned to industry-specific concerns―with the ability to handle all aspects of inbound and outbound investments. Because of the varied experience of our group, we’re able to provide broad-ranging guidance, including with respect to international corporate tax planning, cross-border transactions and related regulatory hurdles, international estate planning, foreign trust administration, corporate governance, bankruptcies and restructurings, debt and equity financings, securities regulation, labor and employment issues, business immigration issues and pre-immigration planning for individuals, data privacy concerns, and dispute resolution.

Members of our Latin America practice have been ranked in many of the top global legal and industry guides, including Latin Lawyer, Latinvex, Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, Chambers High Net Worth, The Legal 500 and Daily Business Review, among other publications.

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• Lead tax counsel to a Spain-based, multi-national gaming systems and equipment manufacturer in the reorganization of its Latin American operations.*
• Lead tax counsel on the proposed management buy-out of regional media conglomerate in Latin America.*
• Lead counsel to a Bogota-based real estate investment fund in the negotiation of development joint ventures in Peru and Chile.*
• Lead counsel and tax adviser to several foreign-based family-owned or majority controlled companies regarding the establishment, operation, expansion and divestiture of their Mexican operations in the manufacturing and distribution, real estate, services and retail industries.*
• Lead tax counsel to a Mexican industrial conglomerate in the negotiation of several joint ventures with US-based automotive and technology companies.*

US Outbound

• German investors in a series of international arbitrations against the Costa Rican government.*
• Panamanian subsidiary of Asian oil and gas corporation in an ICSID arbitration against the Venezuelan government concerning investments in excess of $300 million.**
• US investors in relation to a Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) claim against Costa Rica.**
• An accounting firm as a third-party in a lawsuit in Argentina.
• Loramendi Inc. in connection with an employment agreement in the US.
• Mars in reviewing long-term incentive plans and phantom stock in Argentina, Brazil and Spain.
• Darden Restaurants, Inc. in reviewing corporate matters relating to establishing a new restaurant in Brazil.
• WISeKey in a joint venture with a group of Argentinian investors to develop and distribute cybersecurity solutions in Argentina.
• Egis Projects with a study of PPP regimes in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
• Viagogo in its acquisition of assets in Colombia.
• US-based real estate investment fund in the acquisition, reorganization and divestment of its Mexican real property portfolio with a net asset value average of $850 million.*
• Israel-based energy technology company on the acquisition of a Mexican target.*
• Lead or co-counsel for several US-based real estate investors in the development of housing communities and resorts in Mexico, with a combined investment of US $300 million.*
• Real estate division of a major oil company in the purchase and development of a housing joint venture in Mexico.*
• Co-counsel for three major Fortune 500 US-based automotive suppliers in the establishment of their Mexican operations with a combined investment in excess of US$350 million.*
• Lead tax counsel to a joint venture between a US real estate investment fund and a Mexican operator, in the creation of a platform to invest in Mexican real estate projects.*
• Lead Mexican counsel to a power generation systems manufacturer, in the implementation of global tax strategies.*
• Canadian real estate brokerage company in expansion into Mexico by acquiring a local real estate company.*
• A US-based cloud-based software company in the acquisition of an R&D center in Colombia.*
• The real estate division of a major oil company in the purchase and development of a housing joint venture in Mexico.*
• Lead tax counsel to a US-based real estate developer on its investments in Mexico and Argentina.*
• Evonik Industries in connection with multinational M&A including in Brazil.

*These matters were handled by attorneys prior to them joining the firm.
**These matters were handled by attorneys both prior to and since joining the firm.

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