Chambers Latin America has launched its 2026 information, rating Baker McKenzie in 51 apply and sector areas and in 118 lawyer classes.
Throughout the area, we added 13 newly ranked legal professionals—seven getting into the numerical band tables and 6 in Affiliate to Watch/Up and Coming—and recorded 25 lawyer promotions, together with eight who moved into the highest classes (Bands 1–2/Eminent/Star/Senior Statespeople).
On practices, the Agency earned 4 new apply rankings—Chile: Banking & Finance, Chile: Tax, Mexico: Competitors/Antitrust and Venezuela: Public Legislation and posted 4 apply promotions, all inside Bands 1–2.
The Agency upheld Band 1 positions for Mexico — Common Enterprise Legislation: Monterrey (2016–2026) and Worldwide Commerce/WTO (2009–2026).
Chambers is the main worldwide authorized listing, masking over 200 jurisdictions world wide. Rankings are primarily based on interviews with purchasers and friends in addition to agency submissions. Practices and people incomes a Band 1 rating are famous by the information for attaining the very best, “technical authorized skill, shopper service, business imaginative and prescient and enterprise understanding, diligence, worth for cash, depth of workforce, and different qualities most valued by the shopper.”
Band 1 legal professionals ranked:
Michael Fitzgerald (Worldwide Counsel): Banking & Finance and Capital Markets
Bernard William Malone (Argentina): Mental Property
Juan Pablo Concha Delgado (Colombia): Mental Property
Tatiana Garcés Carvajal (Colombia): Labour & Employment
Ciro Meza (Colombia): Tax
Alfonso Cortez-Fernández (Mexico): Dispute Decision: Monterrey
Federico M Ruanova Guinea (Mexico): Atmosphere
Benjamín Torres Barrón (Mexico): Vitality & Pure Sources: Oil & Fuel
Eugenio Hernández-Bretón (Venezuela): Dispute Decision and Most in Demand Arbitrators
Carlos A Felce (Venezuela): Labour & Employment
Ronald Evans (Venezuela): Tax
Newly ranked legal professionals:
Francisco Fernández Rostello (Argentina): Banking & Finance
Matías Herrero (Argentina): Labour & Employment
Cristian Bonacic (Chile): Tax
Laura Torres Restrepo (Colombia): Vitality & Pure Sources
Julián Ruiz (Colombia): Mental Property
Andrés Hidalgo (Colombia): Life Sciences
Juan Bernardo Garcia-Garza (Mexico): Company/Business: Monterrey
Carlos Vela Treviño (Mexico): Information Safety
Marco Nieto-Vazquez (Mexico): Vitality & Pure Sources: Energy
Roberto Macías (Mexico): Common Enterprise Legislation: Guadalajara
Jorge Ambriz (Mexico): Worldwide Commerce/WTO
Daniel Esteban Sánchez Morales (Mexico): Tasks
Jesus Villegas Ruiz (Venezuela): Company/M&A
Promoted legal professionals:
Pleasure Okay Gallup (Worldwide Counsel): Capital Markets
Santiago Maqueda (Argentina): Dispute Decision and Public Legislation
Sebastián Vivanco (Chile): Banking & Finance
Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés (Chile): Dispute Decision: Arbitration
Ignacio Naudon (Chile): Dispute Decision: Litigation
Antonio Ortúzar Jr (Chile): Vitality & Pure Sources: Mining
Ricardo Trejos Robledo (Colombia): Capital Markets
Jaime Trujillo Caicedo (Colombia): Company/M&A
Alejandro C Mesa‑Neira (Colombia): Vitality & Pure Sources
Evelyn Romero Avila (Colombia): Labour & Employment
Juan David Velasco (Colombia): Tax
Gabriela Saucedo‑Garza (Mexico): Company/Business: Monterrey
Carlo A Pérez-Arizti Morales (Mexico): Company/M&A: The Elite
Lorenzo Ruiz de Velasco (Mexico): Company/M&A: The Elite
Reynaldo Vizcarra-Mendez (Mexico): Company/M&A: The Elite
Marina Hurtado Cruz (Mexico): Mental Property
José Hoyos‑Robles (Mexico): Worldwide Commerce/WTO
María del Rosario Lombera González (Mexico): Labour & Employment
Carla Calderón (Mexico): Life Sciences
Jorge Narváez‑Hasfura (Mexico): Tax: Controversy and Tax: Non‑contentious
Carlos Vela Treviño (Mexico): TMT (Telecoms, Media, Expertise)
Eugenio Hernández‑Bretón (Venezuela ): Vitality & Pure Sources
Serviliano Abache (Venezuela): Tax
Band 1 apply areas:
Company/M&A: Extremely Regarded (Chile)
Common Enterprise Legislation (Mexico)
Worldwide Commerce/WTO (Mexico)
Promoted apply areas:
Labour & Employment (Argentina)
Vitality & Pure Sources (Colombia)
Tax (Colombia)
Vitality & Pure Sources (Venezuela)
Newly ranked apply areas:
Banking & Finance (Chile)
Tax (Chile)
Competitors/Antitrust (Mexico)
Public Legislation (Venezuela)
A full listing of the Agency’s rankings might be discovered right here.
