Leveraging its network of global offices, Holland & Knight LLP has an increasing presence in Latin American arbitration markets. With a bench of lawyers that boast various linguistic and cultural ties to the regions, the team has a growing client list in Colombia and Mexico. In Bogotá, Jose Vicente Zapata and Juan Casallas Romero are key contacts. Zapata has significant experience in critical environmental liability cases and co-chairs the firm’s Venezuela focus team. Luis Rubio Barnetche is a skilled attorney based in the firm’s Mexico City office and has deep insight into dispute resolution proceedings relating to NAFTA. José Antonio Vázquez Cobo has been an important recent addition to the bench in Mexico City. Adolfo Jimenez leads the firm’s international arbitration team and has extensive experience representing clients in arbitrations in both English and Spanish before a variety of arbitration centres. Katharine Menéndez de La Cuesta supports Jimenez in Miami. Since publication, the firm has raised Alec M Puig (also in the Miami office) to the partnership - effective as of January 2026.
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Key clients
- Finley Resources, MWS Management, Prize Permanent Holdings
- Eco Oro Minerals Corporation
Work highlights
Advised Finley Resources, Inc., MWS Management, Inc., Prize Permanent Holdings, LLC on a dispute involving Mexico’s breach of the NAFTA and the USMCA by failing to afford Claimants with National Treatment and Minimum Standard of Treatment protections.
Practice head
Adolfo Jimenez
Other key lawyers
José Antonio Vázquez Cobo; Jose Vicente Zapata; Juan Casallas Romero; Luis Rubio Barnetche; Katharine Menéndez de la Cuesta