Strategic legal guidance for your projects in the region
At Wellstein Mora Rodriguez International s.a. (WMR), we advise businesses and investors on expansion, structuring, and negotiation projects involving Latin America, within legal, regulatory, and commercial environments that are often complex and rapidly evolving.
Operating or transacting in Latin America presents specific challenges, including diverse legal frameworks, local regulatory requirements, contractual risks, operational constraints, and cultural considerations. Our approach is grounded in a clear understanding of our clients’ business objectives, allowing us to identify their actual legal needs and provide pragmatic, structured, and risk-aware legal guidance tailored to local realities.
We work closely with our clients to secure transactions and operations, mitigate legal risk, and support informed decision-making, whether in the context of a first market entry, a specific transaction, or the long-term development of business relationships in the region.
Our services
WMR assists clients in connection with projects involving Latin America, including:
- conducting legal due diligence;
- drafting and negotiating commercial agreements;
- participation in public procurement and tender processes;
- incorporation, organization, and registration of subsidiaries;
- execution of financial transactions;
- compliance with local regulatory requirements, including permits and licenses;
- import and export operations;
- international mobility of personnel and support for key employees.
Our role is to provide a clear and reliable legal framework that enables clients to pursue their business objectives with predictability, efficiency, and legal certainty.
A coordinated approach with local counsel
WMR’s Latin America practice is built on close collaboration with trusted local counsel established in the relevant jurisdictions. Our lawyers bring strong international training and experience, and several are members of multiple bars.
Our team has developed practical knowledge of the region through professional mandates involving numerous Latin American jurisdictions, allowing us to coordinate effectively with local professionals while maintaining overall strategic coherence, quality control, and consistency in the legal advice delivered.
Our lawyers work in French, English, Spanish, and, where required, Portuguese, and possess a solid understanding of the cultural and commercial dynamics that often play a decisive role in cross-border negotiations and transactions.
With offices in Montreal and Washington, DC, and a network of local legal correspondents in Latin America, WMR is well positioned to coordinate and structure cross-border projects, in close cooperation with professionals established in the jurisdictions concerned, while maintaining high standards of legal rigor and professional quality throughout the mandate.
Regional experience
WMR lawyers have advised clients on projects and legal mandates involving numerous countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, working in coordination with local counsel, including in:
- Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Guyana;
- Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize;
- Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Haiti, Saint Martin, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands.
This cross-border experience, grounded in collaboration with local professionals, enables WMR to deliver legal guidance that is structured, reliable, and adapted to the legal and economic specificities of each jurisdiction, while preserving strategic consistency across jurisdictions.