Holland & Knight opens new office in Mexico City
Holland & Knight employs around 1000 lawyers.
The law firm of Holland & Knight are expanding and opening a new office in Mexico City, having been joined by former Chadbourne & Parkes partners, lawyers and associates.
Holland & Knight employs around 1000 lawyers.
Holland & Knight has opened a new in Mexico City, under the leadership of Boris Otto, the former managing partner of Chadbourne & Parke’s Mexico City office. In addition to Otto, Alejandro Landa Thierry and José Antonio Prado also join as partners from Chadbourne & Parke, along with five new associates.
The Mexico City office will focus its practices on corporate finance, energy, project finance, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, securitisations, and private equity.
Holland & Knight previously operated in Mexico through a joint venture established in 1998 and Steven Sonberg, managing partner, said: “We see enormous potential in Mexico for the firm and its clients. Mexico is a dynamic market and many of our clients have operations or interests there.”
“The Mexico City office will expand our cross-border capabilities and enhance our existing corporate and commercial finance and energy practices,” he added.
“Latin America is a strong geographical area of focus for our firm,” said Roberto Pupo, chair of Holland & Knight’s Latin America Practice Group. “Our new team will provide a variety of highly sophisticated legal services to clients doing business regionally and globally, and complement our existing Latin America Practice Group, consisting of more than 80 bilingual and bicultural attorneys.”
Boris Otto, executive partner of the new Mexico City office, said: “We are very excited to open Holland & Knight’s new office in Mexico. We are confident that the combination of our group’s talent with the excellent management and infrastructure of Holland & Knight will give us the ability to quickly become a top law firm in the Mexican legal market.”
“We expect to hire additional partners in key practice areas as we expand our client services in Mexico,” added Otto. “The firm’s outstanding reputation and its strong platform offer unique opportunities to lateral partner candidates and the clients they serve.”
