Cooley Assembles LatAm Real Estate Practice

Law firm Cooley Godward Kronish has formed a LatAm real estate group. The new team includes real estate, corporate and tax lawyers, says Thomas O’Connor, chair of the real estate practice at the firm. O’Connor will co-chair the new LatAm group from New York with Mark W. Lipschutz, a counsel to the firm and CEO of Caribbean Property Group, a company that operates several properties in the region. The firm has had a presence in LatAm in the past five years, and has advised on transactions in Puerto Rico, Aruba and Costa Rica, among other countries.