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Baker McKenzie Earns 87 Practice Area and 143 Individual Rankings in The Legal 500 Latin America 2026

Baker McKenzie has received 87 practice areas and 143 lawyer rankings in the recently published 2026 edition of The Legal 500 Latin America guide.
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Overview

We offer broader market, industry and legal know-how in Latin America than any other law firm. With over two hundred lawyers across 13 offices in six countries, we advise on some of the most significant transactions and legal matters in the region. Working closely with colleagues across practice groups and offices, we help clients capitalize on business, trade and investment opportunities in Latin America and execute their global growth strategies.

With more than 60 years of experience advising startups, global conglomerates and multinationals on navigating legal and business challenges in the region, we are a leading transactional and full service firm. We provide first-class M&A, private equity, banking, finance, capital markets and tax advice to clients. Consistently top-ranked by legal directories including Chambers, IFLR 1000 and Legal 500, we develop tailored solutions for even the most complex matters.

Our lawyers not only advise on specific areas of law, but have deep industry experience in healthcare, information technology, telecommunications, energy, mining and infrastructure. Our practitioners have well-established relationships with local business leaders, government officials and other organizations that enable them to provide clients with the insight they need to comply with the diverse regulatory regimes and laws across the region. No matter the business or legal issue, we are uniquely positioned to add value to any transaction or legal matter in Latin America.

As one of the world's best known and most respected law firms, we offer lawyers an excellent platform for building high-performance global practices. Nearly two-thirds of our fees come from clients we serve in five countries or more and we represent more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies in jurisdictions around the world.

We have offices in every major jurisdiction in the region and a long history of providing expert advice to clients in every major industry across 14 practice areas, and are ranked Bands 1 and 2 in Banking & Finance and Corporate/M&A in Brazil*, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela.

Professional Development

In addition to the day-to-day learning, we offer mentoring programs, technical training sessions and world-class learning resources. We take ongoing career development seriously, investing in bringing lawyers across our 15 Latin America offices together at key points in their career paths. This enables lawyers to form lasting connections that will serve them well in their career. It also provides a two-day timeout to receive practical training and support, as they move from one job level to the next.

Joining our Firm

We look to attract the best talent to our Firm. Our high performance culture rewards and recognizes outstanding performance. Laterals who join our firm also find we have a friendly culture that embraces diversity and inclusiveness across Latin America and the rest of the world.

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We believe in giving back to our local communities in the seven Latin America countries where we have offices. Our lawyers and staff participate in a variety of pro bono, fundraising and environmental initiatives, such as providing free legal advice on the formation of an educational non-profit that helps reintegrate at-risk youth into society in Colombia, and offering scholarships for low-income law students at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, one of the biggest universities in Venezuela.

Other recent initiatives include:

  • Preparing young people to enter the workforce by hiring apprentices from the Learning and Professional Monitoring Center. (Brazil offices*)
  • Using eco-paper made from locally sourced sugar cane bagasse when printing meeting agendas. (Brazil offices*)
  • Explaining tax, corporate and labor obligations to non-profits that provide assistance to senior citizens and people with disabilities as part of an annual conference sponsored by Fundación Saldarriaga Concha. (Bogota office)
  • Helping a Mexican mother locate her five-year-old son after he had been abducted by his father and taken to the US, and securing court rulings that enabled her to reunite with her son and take him back to Mexico. (Guadalajara and Mexico City offices)

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*Trench Rossi Watanabe and Baker McKenzie have executed a strategic cooperation agreement to consult on foreign law