The United States, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico are the hemisphere's two largest common-law economies and its two largest civil-law economies, the markets where North American capital, Latin American resources, and global investors meet. Our Chicago practice handles U.S. work directly. Across Canada, Brazil, and Mexico we coordinate through a facilitation and partner network alongside locally admitted counsel, who render all local-law advice, opinions, and statutory filings.
Most cross-border structuring in the Western Hemisphere is ultimately decided in these four markets: the deepest capital market in the world, a stable Commonwealth neighbor to its north, and the two Latin American economies that anchor inbound investment, nearshoring, and natural-resource development across the region.
Firm facts · ReachA corporate and private-capital boutique with international reach: a principal office in Chicago, a second office in Oakbrook Terrace, offices in London and Dubai through partner firms, meeting locations by appointment in seven further US cities, and a partner network across ~51 jurisdictions on five continents. Founded 2013.
For an international transaction, the choice of jurisdiction here is rarely cosmetic. The United States remains the default venue for venture and growth capital, M&A, and dispute resolution, with Delaware's Court of Chancery and a deep, non-CRS rule-of-law platform. Canada offers a flexible federal-and-provincial corporate regime and a bijural tradition, common law nationally and civil law in Québec, and is frequently used as a holding or operating base for inbound investment into both Canadian and U.S. assets. Brazil, Latin America's largest economy, draws significant energy, agribusiness, infrastructure, and technology capital through a complex civil-law, foreign-exchange, and tax environment. Mexico is the region's principal nearshoring and manufacturing platform, with USMCA access and proximity to the United States. Investors routinely pair operating entities in these markets with U.S. or treaty-jurisdiction holding structures for financing, succession, and exit.
Hart David Carson's role across the region is led from our U.S. practice and is otherwise coordination rather than local practice. We scope the structure and assemble the licensed providers the matter needs: registered agents, notaries, corporate-services providers, fund administrators, banks, and tax advisers. We then project-manage the matter from start to finish, working alongside locally admitted counsel who render all formal advice, legal opinions, and filings in Canada, Brazil, and Mexico. Where a matter touches a regulator, it proceeds in matters before that regulator through the appropriate professionals. We coordinate the engagement and do not speak for the agencies. We make no guarantee of any particular regulatory, tax, or banking outcome.
Corporate, disputes & regulatory. The deepest capital market and the default venue for venture, M&A, and dispute resolution, led from our Chicago practice, with Delaware corporations, LLCs, and fund vehicles.
Open the overview →Corporate & cross-border deals. A stable bijural platform for North American operations and inbound investment, with federal and provincial incorporation and Alberta, BC, and Nova Scotia ULCs.
Open the overview →Inbound investment & energy. Latin America's largest economy for energy, agribusiness, infrastructure, and technology capital, accessed through Ltda. and S.A. entities and registered foreign investment.
Open the overview →Corporate & nearshoring. The region's principal nearshoring and manufacturing platform under USMCA, with S.A. and S. de R.L. companies and the fideicomiso for restricted-zone real estate.
Open the overview →Delaware and U.S. state corporations, LLCs and partnerships handled directly; CBCA and provincial companies, Brazilian Ltda. and S.A. entities, and Mexican S.A. and S. de R.L. companies formed through registered agents, notaries and resident representatives with local counsel.
U.S. and treaty-jurisdiction holding layers paired with Canadian, Brazilian, and Mexican operating entities, including Alberta, BC, and Nova Scotia ULCs, structured for financing, succession, and exit alongside admitted tax counsel.
U.S. dynasty and asset-protection trusts in the established domestic situses, Canadian common-law and Québec fiducie planning, Brazilian holding-company and usufruct succession, and the Mexican fideicomiso for restricted-zone real estate, each calibrated to legitimate, solvent objectives with admitted counsel.
Delaware private funds under Regulation D and Investment Company Act exemptions, Canadian NI 31-103 and NI 45-106 vehicles, Brazilian FIPs and FIDCs under CVM Resolution 175, and Mexican CKDs, CERPIs, and FIBRAs. Each is coordinated with administrators and counsel for registration before the relevant regulator.
Introductions to U.S., Canadian Schedule I, Brazilian and Mexican banks, with the ownership charts, CPF/CNPJ or RFC enrolments, source-of-funds documentation and beneficial-ownership detail that materially improve onboarding under BSA, FINTRAC, BACEN/COAF and CNBV diligence.
Corporate Transparency Act, Investment Canada Act, CVM and BACEN registration, USMCA and foreign-investment review, transfer pricing, withholding, and CRS or FATCA questions, mapped early and addressed through admitted counsel and tax advisers, without guarantees of outcome.
Hart David Carson acts directly on U.S. matters and as coordinator across Canada, Brazil and Mexico. All local legal advice, opinions and statutory filings outside the United States are rendered by locally admitted counsel and licensed providers. Back to Global Reach →
Hart David Carson LLP coordinates matters across the hemisphere's four largest economies: the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico. The firm's Chicago practice anchors U.S. work directly, while across Canada, Brazil, and Mexico it coordinates through a facilitation and partner network alongside locally admitted counsel, who render all local-law advice, opinions, and statutory filings.
Hart David Carson LLP advises on U.S. matters directly from its Chicago-area offices and coordinates Canada, Brazil, and Mexico through locally admitted counsel who render all local-law advice, opinions, and statutory filings. One partner remains accountable for the whole matter, so North American capital, Latin American resources, and global investors meet at a single point of contact.
Yes. Hart David Carson LLP is a Chicago-based U.S. firm and anchors United States work directly through its own attorneys. For Canada, Brazil, and Mexico the firm coordinates with locally admitted counsel rather than holding itself out as admitted to practice the local law of those countries.
Yes. Hart David Carson LLP coordinates cross-border corporate, disputes, and deal work spanning Brazil and Mexico, the hemisphere's two largest civil-law economies, alongside locally admitted counsel. The U.S. and Canadian common-law sides are aligned with the civil-law structures so the transaction works across both traditions.
Coordination is performed by Hart David Carson LLP, while local-law advice, opinions, and statutory filings in Canada, Brazil, and Mexico are rendered by locally admitted counsel. The firm never holds itself out as admitted to practice local law in a jurisdiction where it is not.
Speak to a partner at Hart David Carson LLP, whose Chicago practice anchors U.S. work and coordinates the rest of the hemisphere through locally admitted counsel. Describe the matter and you keep one line back to the firm across the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico.
Reviewed by Jonathan D. Herpy, Sr., Senior Partner · Last updated October 2026 · Educational overview · Not legal advice
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