GLOBAL AWARDS 2o12

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Cross-Border Transactions Law Firm of the Year
DIAZ, REUS & TARG, LLP
Michael Diaz, Jr
+1 305 375 9220
www.diazreus.com
mdiaz@diazreus.com
Diaz Reus is a full-service international law firm based in Miami, Florida with offices in Latin America, Europe,
Asia, and the Middle East. The Firm is regularly engaged to assist with cross-border transactions by financial institutions,
public and private corporations, government entities, and entrepreneurs because of its experience in
government relations, trade, compliance, customs, tax, and immigration matters.
In addition to their language capabilities—Portuguese, Italian, French, Mandarin Chinese, Shanghainese, Japanese, English,
Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, and German, as well as English—the Firm’s attorneys and consultants boast years of
experience working within U.S. and foreign governments in trade, customs, regulatory, project finance, joint venture, and
direct investment matters.
Seasoned, culturally savvy Diaz Reus attorneys successfully guide multinational corporations, and entrepreneurs through
complex international mergers and acquisitions. The Firm provides key legal counsel on all aspects of transactional
matters, from negotiations to financing and compliance.
The Firm also assists U.S. companies, sovereign entities, multinational corporations, and global financial institutions
comply with local and foreign government regulations.
From Iraq to Peru, from Chicago to Costa Rica, from Japan to Venezuela, our globally experienced intellectual property
attorneys negotiate and prepare cross-border license and franchise agreements and manage international brand-protection
programs for our clients across a wide range of industries; from telecommunications, business solutions, and
technology, to manufacturing and publishing.
Diaz Reus corporate attorneys are skilled dealmakers who handle a wide range of domestic and international business,
trade, customs, and financial transactions. For victims of fraud, their internationally recognized asset recovery practice has
located millions of dollars for clients. And their global securities litigation practice and portfolio monitoring service have
likewise helped institutional investors recover significant losses in actions across the United States and Europe.
Recently, Diaz Reus attorneys have advised one of the largest Chinese consumer electronics and products manufacturers
negotiate and initiate a public-private venture with the government of a Latin American country for the establishment of
an assembly plant in one of that country’s free trade zones. From assisting with the creation of local subsidiaries to
operating the assembly plant, to advising them as to compliance in the areas of local taxes, wage laws, and other
government regulations, Diaz Reus attorneys helped the client navigate the challenges of entering a new and different
market.
Offshore Investment Funds Law Firm of the Year
itwak & Partners is a boutique law firm specializing in offshore investment funds, capital markets transactions,
corporate finance and wealth management, all areas of practice where we have an extraordinary track record.
Being a niche law firm, we have a rather small team comprising of highly qualified and seasoned lawyers with
substantial experience in the areas of practice in which they specialise in.
We are committed to excellence and client satisfaction and not to achieve a certain size. We are not and will never be
a full service law firm. We only practice in those areas where we understand that we are the best and we can really add
value to our clients.
Litwak & Partners was founded by Martin Litwak and it offers an alternative to the traditional multi-jurisdictional anglosaxon
offshore law firms, especially when it comes to provide legal advice to Latin American fund managers, foreign
fund managers investing in the region, fund administrators, custodians, investors, etc.
It has its main office in Montevideo, very close to its clients and main markets. This allows us to be there for our clients
and also to be on top of regional trends and legislative changes.
Since its inception, a little more than a year ago, the firm has been pretty active in the formation of offshore funds of different
types of sizes for LatAm managers based in Argentina, Brazil, Miami, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Some of these
funds were hedge funds and some others were hedge funds or private equity funds. The firm has won mandates from big
fund administrators, very well known managers and financial institutions and various family offices based in the region
and it is especially proud of this. The firm has domiciled most of these funds in the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman
Islands but has also worked in structures incorporated in other leading offshore jurisdictions, such as Luxembourg
or Guernsey.
Because we have a greater understanding of the LatAm markets, culture and legal system than is usually found in an
Anglo-Saxon law firm, when a complex cross-border transaction has a Latin-American component we are placed in a
better position than these law firms to provide the advice that is required.
The firm’s strength includes the knowledge it has of fund regulation worldwide, of the investment fund industry in general
and of the Latin American markets, key players and culture.
Martin A. Litwak, the founder of the firm, currently serves at its managing partner. Martin has an extraordinary track
record in the investment funds industry, being responsible for the formation of almost 300 offshore investment funds.
His awards and commendations include, among others, the following achievements: ranked as one of the best lawyers
in private fund formation by Who’s Who Legal (in 2008, 2010 and 2011); included in the “Expert Guides” published
by Euromoney, in the sub-category “investment fund lawyers” (2010); listed as one of the best lawyers by Chambers
& Partners (subcategory capital markets) in Latin America (2009); and recipient of the second prize at the Best Paper
Award contest organised by the Inter-American Bar Association (for his paper “Current Trends in the Latin American
Hedge Fund Industry - Lessons from the Financial Meltdown”). Earlier this year he was named the Best Lawyer in Uruguay
at the World Finance Awards.
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Litwak & Partners
Martin Litwak
+598 (2) 711 8747
martin.litwak@litwak-partners.com
www.litwak-partners.com