ECIJA, one of the Spanish firms with the greatest presence in Latin America
The newspaper Expansión has dedicated an extensive report to analyzing the internationalization strategies of leading Spanish firms, highlighting ECIJA as the firm with the greatest presence in Latin America and one of the undisputed protagonists of the legal expansion process in the Ibero-American axis.
According to the publication, ECIJA has offices in 16 Latin American countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay, in addition to its presence in Spain and Portugal, thus achieving a total of 18 jurisdictions under a single brand. This dimension makes the firm the Spanish legal platform with the greatest territorial coverage on the American continent and one of the most internationally projected in the market.
ECIJA's expansion model is distinguished by its long-term vision and its ability to integrate local teams around a common corporate culture, based on professional management, innovation, and shared purpose. Since its first moves in the region, the firm has opted for direct presence, combining integrations with well-known local firms and the incorporation of new leading partners in their areas of practice.
In recent years, ECIJA has been involved in some of the most relevant operations in the Latin American market, reinforcing its presence in strategic countries like Chile, Peru, and Uruguay, where the firm has incorporated leading partners in real estate, technology, privacy, and cybersecurity. This sustained growth has allowed it to consolidate a multidisciplinary, technological, and coordinated legal service model across jurisdictions, responding to the global needs of national and international clients.
Since 2022, ECIJA has operated under a Swiss Verein structure, a model adopted by leading international firms that groups independent economic units under the same brand. This formula allows for maintaining local autonomy while ensuring the integration of global standards of quality, technology, and management. This model has been key to accelerating ECIJA's growth in Latin America, fostering greater operational flexibility and organic expansion accompanied by lateral hires and strategic alliances.
The publication also emphasizes ECIJA's distinctive role due to its technological DNA, which has led it to establish itself as one of the first firms to define itself as a “Full AI Firm”, with a transversal digital transformation approach in all its services. In this sense, the firm combines its legal leadership with a commitment to applied artificial intelligence, innovation in business models, and the sustainability of legal talent.
With a strong network across Ibero-America, ECIJA today offers an integrated legal service that spans from TMT (Technology, Media, and Telecommunications) to energy, corporate law, sports and entertainment, labor, tax, or complex litigation, maintaining a common strategic vision in all its areas: to be the Ibero-American firm of reference in technology, innovation, and purpose.
Access the full news published in Expansión here.
