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As an integral part of one of the leading global law firms, we help clients throughout Latin America manage all their domestic and international legal requirements.
Latin America
With offices throughout Central and South America, Clyde & Co has the presence to provide superior legal services to local, national and international clients across our core sectors.
75
Lawyers
115
Total staff
Our Latin America team offers a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services across a variety of sectors and industries, including insurance, aviation, projects & construction, energy, and marine. Additionally, our corporate expertise allows us to provide commercially minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world.
With offices in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela, we are well placed to address real-world problems for clients. Our offices across the region work in tandem with our Latin America desks in Miami, Madrid, New York, and London.
These desks include Spanish and Portuguese-speaking lawyers, many of whom are dual-qualified. Given our impressive international reach, we operate on a global basis, from our own offices, our associated offices, via our regional ‘desks’ or through long-term correspondent relationships with leading local firms in other jurisdictions across the region.
Regional experience
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Argentina
Cargo contamination and enforceable arbitration clause – GAFTA arbitration
Claims arising from the pesification regime in Argentina
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Brazil
Advised an oil and gas producer
Advised the Amsterdam branch of a major European bank
Conducting an internal investigation for a commodities trading
Bid negotiations, EPC and related contracts
Breach of Performance Warranty
Charterparty for LNG Project
Purchase of LNG
Master LNG SPA
Floating LNG project
Coverage issues following a collapse of a tailings dam in Brazil
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Chile
Advising Huboi on its LatAm market entry
Advised Cran Group in the US$80 million partial sale
Coverage for a defective SAG mill
Machinery breakdown at copper mine
Hydropower plant
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Colombia
USD 2 billion upgrade of the Cartagena oil refinery
Disruption to supplies of electricity claim
Large-scale reinsurance dispute
EPC USD 2 billion oil refinery upgrade
Disruption to the Central electricity grid
Insuring the loss of Colombian art
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Cuba
Restructuring Cuban sugar debt
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Dominican Republic
Port construction arbitration
ICC USD 4 million port construction works arbitration
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Ecuador
Claims for environmental damage following an oil pipeline spill
High value arbitration on crude oil pipeline
Disputed tar sands mining license in Ecuador
Coverage arbitration following the delayed start-up of a transnational oil pipeline
Mining dispute against the Government of Ecuador
DSU claim arising from construction of pipeline
ICSID case involving the renunciation of Ecuador's membership
Revocation of a tar sands mining licence
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Latin America
Acting for a South American conglomerates’ subsidiary and its international counterpart
Represented a Brazilian contractor
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Mexico
Advising on South American trades
Advised on relating to damage to agriculture products carried to Mexico
LNG terminal regulatory issues
Four charterparty arbitrations
Swine flu outbreak business interuption claims
Construction claims relating to a nitrogen processing plant
Physical damage and BI claims at Steel manufacturing plant
Reinsurance issues
Salvage/scopic
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Panama
Multi-million USD claim alleging negligent design
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Peru
Peru LNG
Failure of the blades of a turbine at a thermal power station
Negligence claim from allegations of an undervalued sale of a mining company's assets
Corrosion damage to pipework and generator costs
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Trinidad and Tobago
Acquisition of LNG project
Claim against global engineering company
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Uruguay
Construction and operation of a new build FSRU
Faliure of steam turbine
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Venezuela
Offshore labour law obligations
Loss of the "Aban Pearl"
Political risk insurer in an LCIA arbitration
Machinery breakdown at Paper Mill
Wreck removal
Sinking of a drill rig