Dentons rises in the Legal 500 Latin America 2027 rankings

• 107 firm rankings and 134 individual lawyer rankings across the region.
• 44 new or improved rankings this year.
• 43 practice and sector rankings in Tier 1 and Tier 2, alongside six Hall of Fame recognitions.

Dentons, the world's largest global law firm, has secured 241 rankings across 16 jurisdictions in the Legal 500 Latin America 2027 guide.

Individual recognitions include 109 rankings across the Leading Partners, Next Generation Partners and Leading Associates categories.

In Venezuela, where Legal 500 this year replaced its practice area and individual rankings with a single firm-wide General Practice ranking, Dentons is ranked in Tier 1 and is the only firm in the ranking to receive all four client satisfaction accolades: Lawyer & Team Quality, Billing & Efficiency, Sector Knowledge and NPS. The Legal 500 also recommends 15 Dentons lawyers in Venezuela.

The Legal 500 Latin America 2027 rankings recognize Dentons teams across Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (in strategic alliance with Vella Pugliese Buosi Guidoni), Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama), Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. The separate Legal 500 Caribbean guide also recognizes Dentons' expertise across the Caribbean.

"Our continued progress in the Legal 500 rankings is an important recognition of the quality and breadth of our legal services across Latin America and the Caribbean," said David Dinner, Dentons' Chief Executive Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean. "For our clients, that means access to experienced local teams who can work together across jurisdictions to support their business needs, whether in a single market or across the region."

Dentons lawyers ranked in the Legal 500 guide across Latin America include:

Hall of Fame

• Ramiro Guevara (Energy and Natural Resources, Bolivia)
• Primitivo Gutiérrez (Labor and Employment, Bolivia)
• Bernardo Cárdenas (Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, Colombia)
• Luz Helena Adarve (Intellectual Property, Colombia)
• Virginia Brause (Corporate and M&A, Uruguay)
• Diego Viana (Labor and Employment, Uruguay)

Leading Partners

• Jorge Inchauste (Banking and Finance; Corporate and M&A; Energy and Natural Resources, Bolivia)
• Enrique Barrios (Banking and Finance; Energy and Natural Resources, Bolivia)
• Ramiro Guevara (Corporate and M&A, Bolivia)
• Rodrigo Rivera (Dispute Resolution, Bolivia)
• Mauricio Dalman (Tax, Bolivia)
• Rodolfo Mercado (Corporate and M&A, Bolivia)
• Rodrigo Vilardo Vella (Corporate and M&A: Mid-market, Brazil)
• Antonio Celso Pugliese (Dispute Resolution: Mid-market Litigation, Brazil)
• Bruna Gobbi (Corporate and M&A: Mid-market, Brazil)
• Dustin Delany (Cross-Caribbean Expertise and St. Kitts & Nevis)
• Santiago Ried (Competition and Antitrust, Chile)
• Andres Marin (Compliance, Chile)
• Felipe Rencoret (Banking and Finance, Chile)
• Carlos Urzúa (Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuring, Chile)
• Enrique Benitez (Energy and Natural Resources, Chile)
• José Miguel López (Insurance, Chile)
• Carolina del Rio (Intellectual Property, Chile)
• Gonzalo Nieto (Mining, Chile)
• Juan Pablo Orellana (Tax, Chile)
• José Ignacio Morán (Water Law, Chile)
• Ximena Zuleta (Competition and Antitrust; Public Law, Colombia)
• Mauricio Borrero (Corporate and M&A, Colombia)
• Eduardo Cárdenas (Corporate and M&A, Colombia)
• Andrés Fernández de Soto (Arbitration; Litigation, Colombia)
• Santiago González (Energy and Natural Resources, Colombia)
• Hernán Rodríguez (Energy and Natural Resources, Colombia)
• Jorge Neher (Energy and Natural Resources, Colombia)
• Juanita Acosta (Intellectual Property; TMT, Colombia)
• Lorena Arámbula (Labor and Employment, Colombia)
• Luz Helena Adarve Gomez (Data Privacy; Life Sciences, Colombia)
• Camilo Cortés (Tax, Colombia)
• Carmen Sanabria (Tax, Colombia)
• Tatiana Reuben (Compliance, Costa Rica)
• Roy de Jesús Herrera (Dispute Resolution, Costa Rica)
• Anna Karina Jiménez (Labor and Employment, Costa Rica)
• Eduardo Zúñiga (Real Estate, Costa Rica)
• Agustín Acosta Cárdenas (Corporate and M&A, Ecuador)
• Daniel Martínez (Corporate and M&A, El Salvador)
• Gustavo Zacapa (Intellectual Property, Honduras)
• Arturo Zacapa (Energy and Projects; Intellectual Property, Honduras)
• Tricia-Gaye O'Connor (Jamaica)
• Rogelio López-Velarde (Energy and Natural Resources, Mexico)
• Fernando Pickmann (Energy and Natural Resources: Mining, Peru)
• Jared Tennant (St. Kitts & Nevis)
• David Cadman KC (Turks & Caicos)
• Chris Smith (Turks & Caicos)
• Nicolás Brause (Dispute Resolution, Uruguay)
• Nicolás Herrera (Banking and Finance; Corporate and M&A, Uruguay)
• Fernando Jiménez de Aréchaga Jr. (Banking and Finance; Projects and Energy, Uruguay)
• Mariela Ruanova (Banking and Finance; Dispute Resolution, Uruguay)

Next Generation Partners

• Nahima Müller (Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Brazil)
• Daniel Cristi (Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuring, Chile)
• Marcelo Alarcón (Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Chile)
• José Domingo Villanueva (Environment, Chile)
• Mercedes Londoño (Intellectual Property, Chile)
• Rodrigo Sanhueza (Labor and Employment, Chile)
• Felipe Alarcón (Banking and Finance, Colombia)
• Santiago Miramón (Corporate and M&A, Colombia)
• Paula Vejarano (Arbitration; Litigation, Colombia)
• Laura Mateus (Labor and Employment, Colombia)
• María del Mar Heredia (Corporate and M&A, Ecuador)
• Leyre Suárez (Dispute Resolution, Ecuador)
• Gabriela Gándara (Intellectual Property, Guatemala)
• María del Rosario de Roux (Projects and Energy, Panama)
• Ignacio Demarco (Labor and Employment, Uruguay)

Leading Associates

• Alejandra Guevara (Banking and Finance; Corporate and M&A; Energy and Natural Resources, Bolivia)
• Belén Montes (Dispute Resolution; Tax, Bolivia)
• Nina Leguizamon (Energy and Natural Resources, Bolivia)
• Luis Gutiérrez (Labor and Employment, Bolivia)
• Ana Lora (Real Estate, Bolivia)
• Vitor Clark Nunes (Corporate and M&A: Mid-market, Brazil)
• Vitor Luis Pereira Jorge (Compliance, Brazil)
• Cristian Vial (Environment; Water Law, Chile)
• Jaime Cruzat (Mining, Chile)
• Gabriela Wildner (Intellectual Property, Chile)
• Francisca Vivaldi (Labor and Employment, Chile)
• María Fernanda Bonilla (Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, Colombia)
• María Paula Macías (Corporate and M&A, Colombia)
• María Margarita Lorduy (Environment, Colombia)
• Juliana Vargas (Intellectual Property, Colombia)
• Angela Cubides (Labor and Employment, Colombia)
• Maria Elisa Quintero (Life Sciences, Colombia)
• María Paula Álvarez (Real Estate, Colombia)
• Rocio Ruiz (Data Privacy; TMT, Colombia)
• Adriana Fernández (Labor and Employment, Costa Rica)
• Valeria Rosero (Corporate and M&A, Ecuador)
• Juan José Mantilla (Dispute Resolution, Ecuador)
• David Aguilar (Corporate and M&A, El Salvador)
• María José Huerta (Intellectual Property, Guatemala)
• Jimena González (Corporate and M&A, Uruguay)
• Mariana Lartigau (Corporate and M&A, Uruguay)
• Bruno Steneri (Dispute Resolution, Uruguay)
• Lucía Aguerre (Intellectual Property, Uruguay)
• Carolina Bianchi (Projects and Energy, Uruguay)
• Daniela De Castro (Projects and Energy, Uruguay)
• Martin Montoro (Tax, Uruguay)

Venezuela: Lawyers recommended in The Legal 500 editorial

• Daniela Jaimes (Banking and Finance; Corporate and M&A; Energy and Natural Resources; Real Estate, Venezuela)
• Rubén Eduardo Luján (Banking and Finance, Venezuela)
• Sergio Casinelli (Corporate and M&A; Energy and Natural Resources; Real Estate, Venezuela)
• Ramón Alvins (Dispute Resolution; Real Estate, Venezuela)
• Fernando Sanquírico (Dispute Resolution, Venezuela)
• Solimar Graterol (Dispute Resolution, Venezuela)
• Yanet Aguiar (Labor and Employment, Venezuela)
• Esther Cecilia Blondet (Labor and Employment, Venezuela)
• Victor Duran (Labor and Employment, Venezuela)
• Juan Carlos Pró-Rísquez (Labor and Employment, Venezuela)
• Eirys Mata Marcano (Labor and Employment, Venezuela)
• Luis Ernesto Andueza (Public Law, Venezuela)
• Moisés Vallenilla (Tax, Venezuela)
• Oscar Cunto André (Tax, Venezuela)
• Juan Andrés Osorio (Tax, Venezuela)

Complete Legal 500 rankings can be found here.

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