Researchers
Details of researchers are now available.
To learn more about the team behind our research, please visit Meet The Team.
Schedule and deadlines
The research schedule and guidelines for The Legal 500 Latin America 2022 edition are now below.
Client referees deadline: Friday 5th February 2021
Editorial submission deadline: Friday 5th February 2021
Firm interviews conducted: 19th February 2021 – 23rd April 2021
Publication: 20 October 2021
The template document you will need to send submissions can be found here.
The referee spreadsheet can be found here.
To send your submissions to us, please visit submissions.legal500.com and follow the onscreen prompts to send us new documents.
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Update: 15/02/2021
All clients received (by the deadline) will be contacted during the week of the 22nd to the 26th of February.
FAQs and supporting info
Guidelines (English), (Portuguese), (Spanish)
Frequently Asked Questions (English), (Portuguese), (Spanish)
Countries
Countries we are researching for Latin America 2022 include:
Update: 17/ 12 / 2020
Due to various approaches and requests we are -albeit slightly belatedly- including the following, additional, new sections to our upcoming round of research:
Argentina: Life sciences and healthcare
Colombia: Compliance and white-collar crime
Paraguay: Competition and antitrust
Peru: TMT (Telecoms / Media / Technology)
ARGENTINA PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Bankruptcy and restructuring
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance/White-collar crime
- Consumer law
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources: Electricity
- Energy and natural resources: Mining
- Energy and natural resources: Oil and gas
- Environment
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- International trade and customs
- Labour and employment
- Life sciences and healthcare (NEW)
- Public law
- Real estate
- Tax
- TMT
BOLIVIA PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Real estate
- Tax
BRAZIL PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Litigation
- Dispute resolution: Arbitration
- Energy and natural resources: Electricity (and renewables)
- Energy and natural resources: Hydrocarbons
- Energy and natural resources: Mining
- Environment
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Life sciences
- Projects and infrastructure
- Public law
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- TMT: Media
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- TMT: Telecoms
- Tax: Tax advisory
- Tax: Tax litigation
- Tax: Customs
Note: Please only send one combined submission for Tax
- Transport: Aviation
- Transport: Shipping
- Wealth and succession planning
- White-collar crime and investigations
City Focus
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- Brasilia
- Government relations
- Litigation
- Public law and regulation
- Tax
- Belo Horizonte
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Labour
- Natural resources and regulation
- Tax
- Curitiba (NEW)
- Leading firms
- Manaus (NEW)
- Leading firms
- Porto Alegre
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Labour
- Tax
- Recife (NEW)
- Leading firms
- Salvador
- Leading firms
- Brasilia
CHILE PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance
- Consumer and advertising law
- Corporate and M&A
- Data privacy
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Dispute resolution: white-collar crime
- Energy and natural resources: Electricity and hydrocarbon
- Energy and natural resources: Mining
- Environment
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Life sciences
- Projects and infrastructure
- Public law
- Real estate
- TMT
- Tax
- Venture capital
COLOMBIA PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance and white-collar crime (NEW)
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources
- Environment
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- International trade and customs
- Labour and employment
- Life sciences
- Projects
- Public law
- Real estate
- TMT
- Tax
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- City Focus
- Medellín
- Cali
COSTA RICA PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Compliance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources
- Environment
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Projects and infrastructure
- Real estate
- Tax
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance (NEW)
- Corporate and M&A (NEW)
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources
- Environment (NEW)
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Real estate and tourism
- Tax
ECUADOR PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Real estate
- Tax
EL SALVADOR PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Intellectual property
- Tax
GUATEMALA PRACTICE AREAS
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources/Projects
- Intellectual property
- Labour
- Real estate
- Tax
HONDURAS PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance (NEW)
- Corporate and M&A (NEW)
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and projects (NEW)
- Intellectual property
- Tax
MEXICO PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Bankruptcy and restructuring
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute resolution: Litigation
- Energy and natural resources
- Environment
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- International trade and customs
- Labour and employment
- Life sciences
- Mining
- Projects and infrastructure (plus standalone Construction table (NEW))
- Real estate
- TMT
- Tax
- Wealth management
NICARAGUA PRACTICE AREAS
- Corporate and finance
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources
- Intellectual property
- Real estate
PANAMA PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Intellectual property
- Labour (NEW)
- Offshore
- Projects and energy
- Real estate
- Tax (NEW)
- Transport: Aviation (NEW)
- Transport: Shipping
PARAGUAY PRACTICE AREAS
- Administrative law
- Banking and finance
- Competition and antitrust (NEW)
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Tax
PERU PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Bankruptcy and restructuring
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources: Electricity
- Energy and natural resources: Hydrocarbons
- Energy and natural resources: Mining
- Environment
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- International trade (IT&C)
- Labour and employment
- Projects and infrastructure
- Public law and regulation
- Real estate
- Tax
- TMT (Telecoms / Media / Technology) (NEW)
PUERTO RICO PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and commercial
- Dispute resolution (and bankruptcy)
- Energy, natural resources and environment
- Government contracting
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Real estate, hospitality and leisure
- Tax
URUGUAY PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Projects and energy
- Real estate
- Tax
VENEZUELA PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Economic regulation
- Energy and natural resources
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- International trade (IT&C)
- Labour and employment
- Public law
- Real estate
- Tax
INTERNATIONAL FIRMS PRACTICE AREAS
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Compliance and investigations
- Corporate and M&A
- International arbitration
- Projects and energy
City Focus
- Miami