CCN’s Latin American Desk coordinates the firm’s legal capabilities across multiple practice areas and jurisdictions throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Companies expanding beyond Mexico frequently find themselves managing a different law firm, a different adviser, and a different set of assumptions in every country. The desk exists to replace that fragmentation with a single, accountable point of coordination, staffed by attorneys who understand both the U.S. corporate environment and the regulatory realities of the region. It works in both directions, assisting U.S. companies establishing or expanding operations in Latin America and Latin American companies entering the U.S. market.
Working from the firm’s offices in Mexico and Texas, and drawing on the Primerus worldwide network together with a vetted group of local counsel, tax advisers, and accounting firms across the region, the desk’s attorneys advise clients on the structuring and execution of cross-border transactions, the tax, corporate, and regulatory aspects of regional operations, and the management of disputes with tax and administrative authorities in multiple jurisdictions.
Our attorneys have led matters spanning Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, and have extensive experience directing outside counsel and Big Four advisers to a single, coherent strategy. Referrals and the invoicing of multijurisdictional services are coordinated through a single point of contact in the firm’s San Antonio office, so that the client maintains one relationship rather than several.
The desk extends the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice into transactions with a regional footprint, advising on structuring, due diligence, negotiation, and post-closing integration and entity rationalization where targets or assets are located in more than one Latin American country.
It likewise extends the firm’s manufacturing and international trade capabilities to clients reassessing where they produce, assemble, and distribute. As companies evaluate and reconfigure their regional manufacturing footprint, the desk provides coordinated advice on the corporate, tax, customs, labor, and regulatory implications of operating in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Central and South America, so that footprint decisions are made with a full view of their legal and fiscal consequences.
Latin America Desk’s
Service Offering
In tax controversy and advisory matters, the desk supports companies that increasingly outsource the management of their non-U.S. tax disputes to outside counsel.
Our attorneys manage audits, administrative proceedings, and litigation across multiple jurisdictions, and are attentive to a recurring client challenge: translating developments in a foreign proceeding into their consequences for the group’s financial statements and reserves. A coordinated regional approach allows clients to track exposure consistently across countries rather than reconciling inconsistent reporting from a dozen separate advisers.
Our services in this area include the following:
*Please note that the desk does not provide U.S. federal estate and gift tax planning or U.S. state and local tax planning.