Davis Polk’s Spain and Latin America Practice Group consists of 34 lawyers, including 15 partners, present in our New York, Menlo Park, London, Madrid and Paris offices. We advise corporations, fund sponsors and major banks and other financial institutions in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, lending and project finance transactions, and international dispute resolution, as well as a variety of other corporate and finance matters. Most of the members of the Group speak Spanish or Portuguese.

Spanish and Latin American deal teams are staffed with lawyers from across all of our practice areas, providing clients with both Spanish/Latin American and practice area experience.  The many client relationships that we have built with some of the largest Spanish and Latin American companies are a testament to the success that our firm culture has produced.

• “International clients highlight this Wall Street player's stature in Latin American investment matters: ‘It's an excellent operation from top to bottom, and offers great solutions....” Chambers USA (2009)
• “‘The firm responds well to everything the client needs in a deal; we feel really well looked after with Davis Polk on our side,’ clients say.” Chambers Latin America (2010)
  

• We are advising Cosan S.A. Indústria e Comércio, the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world and the largest ethanol producer in Brazil, in connection with the proposed formation of a $12 billion joint venture with Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, in Brazil for the production of ethanol, sugar and power, and supply, distribution and retail of transportation fuels.
• $7.5 billion SEC-registered initial public offering of units, including in the form of ADSs, by Banco Santander (Brasil), the fourth-largest multiple service bank in Brazil in terms of assets. The offering was the largest global IPO in 2009 and the largest-ever IPO in Latin America.
• €7.2 billion underwritten rights offering of ordinary shares by Banco Santander, a Spanish bank
• The splitup of MMX Mineração e Metálicos, a Brazilian mining company, and subsequent $5.5 billion sale of one of the resulting companies to an affiliate of Anglo American
• $2.4 billion SEC-registered offering by BRF - Brasil Foods of common stock, including in the form of ADSs
• $2.3 billion SEC-registered off-the-shelf note offering by Telefónica Emisiones, S.A.U., fully guaranteed by Telefónica, the leading provider of fixed-line telephone, wireless communications, Internet access and data transmission services in Spain and one of the largest telecommunications operators in Europe and Latin America