After decades of serving clients in Brazil and throughout Latin America, Jones Day opened the São Paulo Office in 2011 to more effectively serve our Brazil-based clients and to become a full participant in the Brazilian business community. With São Paulo as a financial center of Brazil and Latin America, Jones Day's São Paulo Office is strategically located to provide legal counsel to Brazilian companies wishing to expand globally, and to support global clients with inbound investments into Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America, working together with the best local independent firms. Acting as a foreign legal consultancy, we offer U.S. and Spanish law advice to our clients. Our lawyers, fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish, have spent many years working with clients in matters in Brazil and throughout Latin America, and thereby have a great understanding of the business culture in the region.
The São Paulo Office concentrates on cross-border M&A, private equity, infrastructure, construction and transportation, mining and energy transactions, pharmaceutical, technology outsourcing and other strategic alliances, as well as banking and finance and capital markets transactions involving a variety of sectors. Our clients include major corporate groups, as well as banks and financial institutions, private equity sponsors and investors, real estate and venture capital funds, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional clients. With seamless access to the Firm's more than 2,400 lawyers in locations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia, the São Paulo Office blends the advantages of a worldwide legal presence with our award-winning client service.
São Paulo is Jones Day's second office in Latin America after Mexico City, and headquarters the Firm's Latin American practice. Jones Day is among the very few law firms that has offices in São Paulo, Mexico City, New York, and Madrid, and the U.S. and Asia business and finance hubs.