International

Haynes and Boone lawyers are comfortable advising clients throughout the world. In fact, during the last five years, our lawyers have handled matters involving more than 100 foreign countries. We advise leading U.S. Fortune 500 and mid-sized corporations, major corporations based throughout the world, foreign governments, trade associations, and individuals.

An important reason why our lawyers are so effective at international representation is that many of them are bilingual and have lived abroad. In fact, we have more than a dozen language fluencies represented in the firm. In addition, through the close ties we’ve developed in the past 25 years with leading law firms throughout the world (including via our participation in international networks such as World Services Group and Techlaw), we can serve our clients effectively and efficiently in any corner of the world.

Latin America and the Caribbean

With Haynes and Boone’s strong presence in Mexico City (among the largest offices there of any U.S. law firm and nearly 50 lawyers involved firm wide in Latin American matters), we are recognized by publications such as Chambers USA and Latin Lawyer as a leading Latin American practice. The hallmarks of the regional leadership of our Americas Practice Group include:

• An integrated approach to our Mexico City office from a management and technology perspective
• Strong securities, finance, real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and energy capabilities in Mexico City
• A permanent staff of Latin American lawyers from Mexico, Argentina, and Spain and a team of visiting lawyers from other jurisdictions including Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela
• Extensive experience in South America (e.g., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru), Central America (e.g., Costa Rica, Honduras, and El Salvador), and the Caribbean
• An integrated approach to staffing projects with Latin America lawyers in our U.S. offices and a U.S. ex-pat in our Mexico City office to ensure real-time attention to both sides of the border
• Strong civil law expertise and cultural affinity with Latin America and the Caribbean
• Strong Latin American experience from multiple offices - Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., and Mexico City
• Spanish language fluency of several U.S. partners and associates
• Local knowledge of markets and business practices in the region
• Expertise handling multi-jurisdictional projects in the region

Haynes and Boone also has extensive experience in advising clients in cross-border matters involving Brazil, and in particular advising foreign companies investing in Brazil and in cross-border lending. We also have excellent experience advising Brazilian clients, as evidenced by our representation of MMX Mineração e Metálicos S.A. (MMX) in connection with the financing of an integrated iron-ore mining and infrastructure logistics project relating to MMX's Amapá mining facility, which was selected 2007 “Latin American Deal of the Year” by Trade Finance Magazine. In addition, leading industry publications such as Chambers Latin America 2009 and Latin Lawyer 250 (2009) have cited the Firm’s experience in Brazil. We have worked with a large number of the leading law firms in Brazil as part of our service to our clients and have had Brazilian foreign associates from several of these leading firms work with us in our offices.

Asia

Haynes and Boone has a team of multilingual, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary lawyers who facilitate a two-way flow of transactions and investments between Japan and its global business partners. We have represented Japanese investors in over $1 billion in real estate investments in the United States, and advised many major Japanese companies on their transactional and dispute resolution needs.

Europe, Middle East and Africa

Our lawyers provide on-going advice on conducting transactions and operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, including the review of potential customers against the denied parties lists maintained by the Departments of Commerce, Treasury and State.

Strength at Resolving International Trade Disputes

An important part of our international practice is advising domestic and foreign companies on import, export and customs matters. We also represent both petitioners and respondents in trade controversies, appearing on clients' behalf before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and other federal agencies. In addition, our Intellectual Property lawyers are experienced in handing ITC Section 337 actions, which are actively increasing.

Our lawyers are fully experienced in proceedings of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). That includes frequent appearances before multinational dispute panels and on various North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Chapter 11, 19 and 20 panels.

Ensuring Worldwide Corporate Compliance 

We help U.S.-based multinationals comply with all aspects of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and have special strength at advising on compliance programs to ensure that employees in other countries don't make bribes or other improper payments prohibited by the Act. Our team makes anti-corruption due diligence central to all of our clients' multinational business transactions, particularly in the structuring of agreements with foreign distributors and sales agents, and the implementation of mergers and acquisitions. We also advise clients on compliance with other regulatory requirements in international transactions, such as Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) (Exon-Florio) filings and FOCI (Foreign Ownership, Control, and Influence) issues.

Leaders in International Arbitration 

Our lawyers are involved in some of the world's most significant and challenging international commercial, technology and investment arbitrations. We act as counsel for the U.S. government, foreign governments and U.S. and foreign corporations in arbitrations that often involve sums in the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.

Lawyers practicing in eight of our 12 offices (including Mexico City) are fully experienced in international arbitration procedures and proceedings, in part from having held senior positions in the U.S. and Mexican governments. And because we combine broad geographic scope (Europe, Asia, Central Asia, the Americas) and in-house capabilities in more than a dozen languages, we can represent our clients where their businesses take them.