Foley Hoag LLP

Foley Hoag offers clients market-leading international legal services with a particular emphasis in Latin America. Since its inception, the practice has focused heavily on the representation of Latin American sovereign States and State entities in cutting-edge international investment and commercial arbitrations, disputes with other sovereign States, and litigation before U.S. courts involving the recognition, enforcement of international arbitral awards, motions to compel arbitrations, and other transboundary issues.

The recently established Latin America practice is led by Kenneth Figueroa and Clara Brillembourg, who have widened the practice’s portfolio in the region in recent years by engaging high profile cases with billion dollar claims, including six cases for Peru. Among its more relevant successes, the team has recently secured three victories for Uruguay, two for Peru, and currently represents Chile in one of the first investment arbitrations concerning the impact of COVID-19 regulations.  They were also recently engaged by clients Dominican Republic and Guyana in two new cases.

A recent study by the Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas found that Foley had the highest number of international arbitrations representing Latin American States. Our roster in this area also includes Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela, among other sovereign States in other regions of the world.