Pérez-Llorca has agreed a merger with Peru’s Miranda & Amado as the Spanish-headquartered firm continues its Latin America expansion.
The combination will add about 240 professionals from Miranda & Amado, expanding Pérez-Llorca’s headcount to 1,300 professionals globally and 700 in Latin America. The merger will strengthen the combined firm’s transactional, financing and disputes capabilities, serving large international companies, investment banks and financial sponsors seeking to do business in the region.
The Peru deal follows its expansion in Mexico in 2024 through a merger with local firm González Calvillo and then in 2025 in Colombia with Gómez-Pinzón. Those tie-ups added more than 200 lawyers to the firm’s Latin America bench.
Pedro Pérez-Llorca, senior partner at Pérez-Llorca, said: “The merger with Miranda & Amado marks a new milestone in a project launched three years ago with a clear ambition: to build a leading, robust and sustainable Ibero-American law firm. Following Mexico and Colombia, Peru strengthens our presence in Latin America and consolidates a growth model based on full integration with leading firms that share our culture, standards of excellence and our vision of the practice of law.”
The merger is expected to be completed in the coming weeks pending approval from both firms’ governing bodies. On completion, Miranda & Amado’s partners will take on leadership roles in key international practice areas.
José Daniel Amado, founding partner of Miranda & Amado, said: “This integration represents an extraordinary opportunity to combine Miranda & Amado’s reputation, track record and talent with Pérez-Llorca’s international reach. It stems from the convergence of two firms that share the ambition to lead the market, strengthen their local presence and build a global platform without precedent in the region.”
Lima-based Miranda & Amado has 33 partners, according to its website.
Iván Delgado, international executive partner at Pérez-Llorca, said: “Latin America is a strategic priority. With this integration, we are taking a significant step forward in our ability to offer seamless, high-value advice to our clients throughout the region.”
Mari Cruz Taboada, a partner at Lexington Consultants, said Pérez-Llorca's Latin America merger strategy had been "very selective and targeted". She noted that its Colombian and Peruvian merger partners had worked together for 20 years through the Affinitas network – "one of the closest alliances in the region" – a factor that would aid their integration with the Spanish firm.
"An alliance with already established trust, aligned standards and a similar approach to client service and international ambition significantly reduces many of the cultural integration risks for both parties, that often undermine cross-border mergers,” she concluded.
Pérez-Llorca posted a 28% increase in ‘pro forma’ revenue to hit €211m in its latest financial results, buoyed by the merger with Gómez-Pinzón in Colombia. The firm is also planning to open an Abu Dhabi office this year to support Middle East investors in their operations in Spain, Portugal and the Americas.
Other Spanish firms expanding in Latin America recently include Garrigues, which merged with Chilean firm Barros Silva Varela & Vigil in April.
Email your news and story ideas to: [email protected]
