A look back at Latin Lawyer and East Consulting's Asia roundtable 

Listen to the highlights from Latin Lawyer’s Asia roundtable with East Consulting in this exclusive audio summary, where speakers discuss why Asian investors are growing increasingly confident in the Latin American market and how regional desks are facilitating that trend.

The roundtable was held remotely on 12 March and was co-chaired by Latin Lawyer and Ignacio Tornero of East Consulting, a legal consultancy focused on Asian and Latin American investment relationships.

Access the above video for insight on the shifting investment landscape between Asia and Latin America, the main obstacles that arise when doing business between the two regions and how to enhance cross-border cooperation.

The discussion brought together perspectives from Brazil, Chile, Japan and China.  

Also participating were Shin Jae Kim of Brazil’s TozziniFreire Advogados, Lucas Marinovic from Chile’s Barros & Errázuriz Abogados, Su (Molly) Meng from Chinese firm King & Wood Mallesons and Masaru Umeda from Japan’s Nishimura & Asahi. 

Click here to read the full article looking into how investment and market trends between Latin America and Asia have changed over time, as well as how  Asian investors have become more confident in their business ventures in the region. 

Click here to read the full article discussing the challenges of setting up and maintaining foreign outposts and how to leverage regional desks, global legal networks and non-exclusive alliances to facilitate effective deal-making between Asia and Latin America.