Latin America practice

Our Latin America practice helps market-leading insurers and reinsurers manage claims, analyze and litigate coverage, and related exposures. We also act in an advisory position for issues across all lines of business in the Latin American region.

With our deep experience on highly-complicated cases, we continue to help market-leading insurers and reinsurers on issues across all lines of business in the Latin America. Our team handles both contentious and non-contentious matters, providing a range of specialist legal services for many industry sectors, including:

insurance and reinsurance
aviation
banking and finance
construction and engineering
cyber
healthcare
life sciences
marine
public sector
rail
real estate
retail
shipping and international trade
sport and leisure
transport and logistics; and
travel and tourism.

Our lawyers are all bilingual and qualified across various jurisdictions in Latin America, England and Wales, Spain and the US.

Michael Hennessy, managing partner of LatAm and the Caribbean, oversees the business operations, development and growth of the offices in the region.

Kennedys is at the forefront of the insurance and reinsurance market in Latin America. Although primarily known for its insurance and reinsurance work, the firm is increasingly active in corporate and commercial matters.

The Legal 500 Latin America 2023

Global reach with local expertise

Our lawyers work together with our international team, sharing global knowledge and local expertise with our offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and our associate offices in Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama and Puerto Rico.

Together with our Kennedys offices around the world, we handle some of the most significant insurance and reinsurance matters globally.

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