MIAMI (February 13, 2025) – Holland & Knight has been named as one of the world's leading law firms by Chambers Global – The World's Leading Lawyers for Business. The Chambers Global guide is designed to reflect market opinion through a year's worth of surveys from clients and lawyers worldwide. It is one of a series of Chambers and Partners' independent, objective and research-based guides to the legal profession.
The firm earned several notable rankings in the 2025 edition of the annual guide, including in the following practice areas:
Global Market Leaders
Asset Finance
Shipping: Finance
Shipping: Litigation
USA
Banking & Finance
Banking & Finance (Latin America-wide)
Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
Privacy & Data Security (Highly Regarded)
Privacy & Data Security: Litigation
Latin America – International Counsel
Banking & Finance
Cuba
General Business Law: International Firms
Colombia
Banking & Finance
Corporate/M&A
Dispute Resolution
International & Cross-Border Capabilities
Tax
Mexico
Banking & Finance
Corporate/M&A (Highly Regarded)
Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
Energy & Natural Resources
Projects
Tax: Non-Contentious
In addition, 36 individual lawyers are ranked in the guide's Global, Latin America-wide and Countries sections:
Global Market Leaders
Phillip Durham – Asset Finance
Nathan Leavitt – Asset Finance
Christopher Nolan – Shipping: Litigation
John Pritchard – Asset Finance
Jovi Tenev – Shipping: Finance
Latin America – International Counsel
Stephen Double – Banking & Finance
Norberto Quintana – Banking & Finance, Project
Finance
Colombia
Camilo Gantiva Hidalgo – Banking & Finance, Capital
Markets
José Gutiérrez Mestre – Dispute
Resolution
Gustavo Pardo – Tax
Juan Camillo Riveira – Tax (Associates to Watch)
Danilo Romero – Intellectual Property
Juliana Saa – Banking & Finance (Up & Coming)
Julia Velásquez – Corporate/M&A
José Vicente Zapata – Energy & Natural
Resources
Liberia
Jovi Tenev – Shipping
Marshall Islands
James Power – General Business Law
Mexico
Luis Rubio Barnetche – Corporate/M&A
Selene Espinosa – Corporate/M&A (Up & Coming)
Eugenio Grageda – Tax: Non-Contentious
Alejandro Landa Thierry – Banking & Finance,
Projects
Humberto Morales-Barrón – Compliance
Turenna Ramírez Ortiz – International Trade/WTO
Rodolfo Rueda – Energy & Natural Resources (Up &
Coming)
Guillermo Uribe – Capital Markets
Jose Antonio Vazquez Cobo – Dispute Resolution:
Arbitration
José Luis Villareal – Intellectual Property (Up &
Coming)
USA
Olesya Bakar – Private Equity: Fund Formation
Justin Boose – Projects: Renewables & Alternative
Energy
Andrew Derman – Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
Stephen Double – Banking & Finance
Paul Forshay – Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory &
Litigation)
Robert A. Friedman – International Trade: CFIUS Experts
Alexander Holtan – Derivatives (Up & Coming)
Mark Melodia – Privacy & Data Security: Litigation
James Paine – Outsourcing
Norberto Quintana – Banking & Finance
Ram Sunkara – Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional)
Jovi Tenev – Shipping
Bradley Van Buren – Venture Capital: Fund Formation