Latin Lawyer

Latin Lawyer Elite corporations have every created their very own paths in the direction of excellence and present distinctive areas of energy. Right here, we announce this 12 months’s Elite.

The Latin Lawyer Elite 2024 firms paved the way of their respective markets because of the excellent work they do for shoppers, but additionally as a result of they make investments vital sources in sustaining their aggressive edge by way of astute enterprise growth and cautious expertise administration.

For the primary time, this 12 months we current Worldwide Elite, revealing the worldwide corporations that we imagine function on the very high of Latin America’s authorized market. The eight corporations included within the rating have all achieved a market-leading place within the area on account of the strategic imaginative and prescient, funding in native relationships, distinctive authorized abilities and geographical attain demonstrated by their Latin American apply teams.

To finalise this listing of Elite corporations, Latin Lawyer has drawn on years of on-the-ground information; information compiled by way of our personal main unbiased surveys into administration practices, together with variety, worldwide expertise and professional bono; our analysis into every authorized market as a part of the Latin Lawyer 250; and our ongoing information protection of the main offers and circumstances throughout Latin America. We’ve got centered on the area’s largest economies – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela – in addition to Panama and the Central American area. For the 2024 version, we added Worldwide Elite and it’s our intention so as to add additional nations within the close to future.

To guage corporations we have now awarded them factors in 12 areas of excellence, amongst them: complete quantity and worth of M&A, capital markets and finance offers, apply space breadth, worldwide publicity, companion to affiliate ratio, gender variety and professional bono. You may see a key detailing how we have now utilized these factors in graphics for every agency here.

Since we first launched Latin Lawyer Elite eight years in the past we have now supplemented our analysis with conversations with shoppers by way of our affiliate publication, the Latin American Company Counsel Affiliation (LACCA). That is one thing we have now expanded of the years and now we measure contender corporations in three areas of excellence from LACCA’s analysis. These are LACCA Approved (a listing of companions personally beneficial by high common counsel from across the area), Who represents Latin America’s biggest companies? (a listing of the legislation corporations representing Latin America’s 100 largest firms, as ranked by income) and Who represents Latin America’s biggest banks? (a listing of the legislation corporations representing Latin America’s 50 largest banks, as ranked by income).

The choice course of to determine the group of Latin Lawyer Elite corporations permits corporations to maneuver on or off the listing every year. The 2024 listing of corporations shouldn’t be exhaustive, however the chosen corporations are there for good motive. All of them convey profitable, progressive methods and experiences to the desk.

This 12 months, we reveal the Latin Lawyer 250 Efficiency Index, which supplies a full market view of legislation corporations. Customers can simply get instantaneous 360-view of the market to guage rivals, determine alternatives and inform their very own agency’s enterprise era technique. You may entry the software here and extra data might be discovered here.

International

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Clifford Likelihood LLP

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Milbank

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

White & Case LLP

Argentina

Beccar Varela

Bruchou & Funes de Rioja