Jones Day Takes a Run for The Border

Cleveland’s Jones Day, the nation’s second largest law firm, is absorbing Mexico City’s De Ovando y Martínez del Campo, to create the firm’s first Latin American office.

Eight partners and 12 associates from the Mexican firm are being integrated into Jones Day, and Fernando de Ovando will serve as the partner in charge of the new office. Jones Day has been collaborating with De Ovando y Martínez del Campo on a variety of issues for more than 20 years.

The new Mexico City office will focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, finance and infrastructure transactions, real estate and capital markets.

Jones Day’s Latin America practice team now has about 50 attorneys based in Mexico City; Madrid, Spain; New York; and various other international offices.

With the addition of Mexico City, Jones Days now has 31 offices worldwide.