Latest issue of The Latin American Lawyer is now online

The January-February issue of The Latin American Lawyer is now online, featuring interviews with lawyers from Pinheiro Neto, Cuatrecasas and ECIJA, a report by Baker McKenzie’s on what lies in store in litigation and arbitration across the region in 2020, and an interview with German pharmaceutical giant Merck’s regional counsel for Latin America.

Pinheiro Neto announced the opening of an office in Tokyo in late 2019 and we spoke with the office’s managing partner, Yuka Ono, about how the firm aims to capitalise on business opportunities between the two countries, and between Asia and the Americas, while the firm’s managing partner, Alexandre Bertoldi, spoke about the firm’s internationalisation strategy and corporate governance model.

Cuatrecasas has hired Domingo Rivarola Reisz as head of its arbitration practice in Lima, and whom we spoke to about the rise of that dispute resolution mechanism in Peru, and across Latin America, and how the firm’s Lima team is already serving multiple clients in such cases.

With Madrid-based law firm ECIJA having announced its entry into Mexico, its 11th Latin American jurisdiction, managing partner Alejandro Touriño spoke to the magazine about the importance of such a move, having found the perfect partner in local firm Chacón & Rodríguez.

And in our in-house section, Alejandro Torrendell, regional counsel for Latin America at Merck, talks about how external law firms add value by demonstrating an understanding of the company’s business and its in-house team.

The latest issue of the magazine is available for free download here.