Peru

Firm overview

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría is the first major Ibero-American law firm. The firm is born from a merger between the Chilean Philippi, Yrarrázaval, Pulido & Brunner, Colombian Prietocarrizosa, and the two Peruvian firms Ferrero Abogados and Delmar Ugarte. The prestigious Spanish and Portuguese firm Uría Menéndez participates in the new firm since its inception in 2015.

Firm overview

Full practice law firm, with strong transactional practice in corporate law, M&A, banking and finance, capital markets, project development and project finance, energy, and mining as well as environment, real estate, taxation, foreign trade, labour, public law and regulatory, competition, intellectual property, telecommunications, arbitration, litigation, and white-collar crime. Having doubled our size in the past 5 years, we have proven to be a leading firm, recognized in the local market, with a strong international orientation. We aim to be a business partner and successfully help our clients to reach their goals by tailoring our legal expertise to them. Ethics, commitment, professional excellence, and dedication to clients are the base of our work.

Firm overview

The DLA Piper Latin America team provides full-service legal advice to national and multinational companies with interests and operations throughout the region. Our approach, to advise clients comprehensively, combines local knowledge with the resources of DLA Piper's global platform.

With over 450 lawyers practicing throughout Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico, in addition to our US-based cross-border attorneys, our teams frequently work with our professionals throughout the LatAm region, Iberian Peninsula, and around the globe.

Several of our lawyers were born, raised and educated in the region and are fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese. Many of them have also practiced law in both the United States and Latin America and are intimately familiar with the civil law systems and the cultural and legal nuances necessary to do business successfully in the region.

Our strategic relationships throughout Latin America enable us to provide our clients with practical and meaningful legal advice. DLA Piper's global platform, with over 90 offices in more than 40 countries, allows us to serve all of our clients' legal needs, both for those based in Latin America and those wishing to do business there.

The United States, specifically New York and Florida, have deep economic and cultural ties to Latin America. Our U.S.-based team of Latin American professionals regularly acts as lead counsel on a wide range of cross-border matters in Latin America, ranging from complex capital markets, finance and M&A matters to public-private partnerships and market entry and establishment matters.

Firm overview

Garrigues offers, in each of its Latin American offices, expert multidisciplinary advice in a broad range of business law advisory services. It provides support to both local clients and international investors on entering and pursuing their business activities. In addition Garrigues offers a unique network of integrated offices in Latin America, working together and applying the same standards.