Jackson Walker Latin America Practice: A Perfect Balance of Legal Knowledge, Culture, Language and Practical Business Experience Providing Solutions for U.S. Clients Doing Business in Latin America.

While Jackson Walker proudly calls Texas home, we have long recognized that our clients' demands reach far beyond Texas' borders. According to the U.S. International Trade Administration (ITA), Texas has led the U.S. in exports for nine consecutive years and Mexico is Texas' largest trading partner by far. Jackson Walker Latin America Practice has played a key role in developing this important commercial relationship between Texas, Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and reflects Jackson Walker's firm commitment to provide its clients a full spectrum of value-driven cross-border legal solutions.

Jackson Walker's Latin America practice consists of attorneys who have significant legal and business experience in many Latin American countries. Several Jackson Walker attorneys have lived and worked in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, among others. As part of our strategy to assist our clients in all of their business endeavors, including those dealing with Latin America, we also have attorneys licensed in Mexico and regularly work with attorneys from prominent Latin American law firms to provide practical solutions to local problems in a manner that is understandable and value-driven to our U.S. clients. All of our Latin America practice attorneys understand and regularly deal with civil law concepts, are fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese, and regularly negotiate and document transactions subject to the governing law of several Latin American countries.

Jackson Walker's Latin America practice attorneys balance their legal knowledge, business experience, and cultural understanding to help our clients successfully invest in Latin America.

Jackson Walker's Latin America practice attorneys regularly advise U.S. clients in the following:

• Establishment of operations in Latin American countries, including organization of subsidiaries, movement of U.S. personnel to Latin American countries, and related labor, benefits and tax issues, including maquiladora and shelter operations in Mexico
• Structuring, negotiating and documenting mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of companies and assets, joint ventures and strategic alliances
• Acquisition and sale of real estate in Mexico both in and outside of the restricted zone, and through bank trusts (fideicomisos)
• Coordinate litigation, mediation, and arbitration subject to different Latin American jurisdictions
• Protection and licensing of intellectual property
• Representation of U.S. financial institutions in structuring cross-border financing transactions with collateral in Mexico and other Latin American countries
• Letters of credit and other financing of equity and debt requirements
• Compliance with various import and export regulations in Mexico and various Latin American countries
• Handling cross-border tax issues and disputes with taxing authorities.