Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is ‘a proven firm for significant transnational cases’. It has an extensive client list of corporates from across the region, such as Vale and FEMSA, along with a growing number of Japanese trading houses, Middle East-based sovereign wealth funds and significant pension funds. The firm also frequently advises other global corporate clients on their investments and acquisitions in the Latin America region. It has an outstanding record in the Mexico and Brazil markets, while also achieving a significant presence in Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina. The natural resources sector is its most active industry, along with power, renewables, oil and gas, infrastructure and consumer products. Jeffrey Lewis has an outstanding reputation in natural resources and oil-and-gas transactions in Latin America. Chantal Kordula is another leading name with an excellent record in consumer products, energy, manufacturing and infrastructure deals across Mexico and multiple Latin American jurisdictions' while Sao Paulo-based Juan Giráldez plays an anchor role on many of the firm’s Brazil and Southern Cone deal mandates. Native Spanish speaker Maria Manzur is a key name at associate level.