Latin America - Latin America: International firms
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Greenberg Traurig LLP’s substantial Miami office has a long history of advising multinationals and Latin American businesses on cross-border corporate and M&A transactions. The Latin America group represents a variety of public companies, major family enterprises, private equity houses and venture capital funds. The firm has reinvigorated this emphasis in recent years with a shift in the leadership group that now sees Antonio Peña as co-chair of the Latin America group with co-managing shareholder of the Miami office, Yosbel Ibarra, who also has a key role in Latin America-related transactions. In conjunction with the additional platform provided by the firm’s substantial Mexico office (opened 2012), this has led to a wider geographical focus across Latin America, building on its longstanding links to Central America, and resulting -particularly- in an uptick in Brazil inbound and outbound deals; Brazilian Arnaldo Rego was promoted to shareholder in 2023. The Latin America team is also working on matters involving increased capital flows into North America from Chile and continues to stand out for its expertise in SPAC transactions. Veteran M&A practitioner Emilio Alvarez-Farré is immensely experienced; while Carol Barnhart and Geiza Vargas-Vargas are both key corporate transactional partners who participate significantly in Latin America-related deals. Associate Anthony Fernandez is a rising star. All named individuals are based in Miami.
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Testimonials
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‘Commitment to the client, focused on the requested results.’
‘Extraordinary advisers in general, with access to different specialties at the same point of contact.’
‘Greenberg Traurig is a first class office, with a full service team, they respond quickly and are always available. They are my first option when I have to hire an office with international capabilities in the corporate field and M&A.’
‘The team is incredibly nice, good people, with a human quality. It is evident that they are always willing to go the extra mile to meet customer needs. Yosbel Ibarra and Antonio Peña are the ones I have the closest relationship with. Both stand out for their teamwork, customer orientation, speed, expertise in corporate law and first-rate human qualities. I have worked with many lawyers in the USA and without a doubt Yosbel and Antonio are the ones with the best combination of personal qualities with professional capacity.’
‘It is a solid team, with great knowledge of the region. They have very good empathy with clients and colleagues and are flexible with fees. It is very important that they are native Spanish and Portuguese speakers, which makes transactions with clients from the Latam region very efficient.’
‘Antonio Peña, Yosbel Ibarra and Arnaldo Rego are excellent lawyers and people.’
‘We have worked together for many years, there is a lot of trust and their availability to serve us is immediate.’
‘Very high professional quality and they know very well the key points that add value when it comes to generating value and giving an opinion. Practical and fast with commercial sense.’
Key clients
- DD3 Acquisition Corp II
- Paysafe Limited
- Navent Group Limited
- Procaps Group
- Betterware de México
- Megalabs Group / Megalabs USA
- EFL Global Logistics
- Grupo Empresarial Keralty
- VAS Aero Services
- Hapag-Lloyd
Work highlights
- Advised Hapag-Lloyd on the $1bn acquisition of the port terminals and inland logistics business of SAAM.
- Advised Procaps Group on its acquisition of Grupo Somar (including Grupo Farmacéutico Somar, Química y Farmacia and Gelcaps and related entities) from private equity fund Advent International.
- Advised DD3 Acquisition Corp II on its business combination agreement with Codere Online.
Lawyers
Leading associates
Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Antonio Peña, Marc Rossell, José Raz Guzmán