by Bruce | September 13, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Latin America
The following column is by Antonio Leal Holguin, Director of Latin America for Adam Smith, Esq. I recently spent three days in Lima. A metropolis of close to 10 million people, Peru’s capital is one of Latin America’s most vibrant cities and a famous culinary...
by Bruce | April 1, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Latin America, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Last week I spent three full days in Bogota, meeting with firms and colleagues, giving a talk at the always-wonderful “Gun Club,” and generally trying to soak up as much market intelligence as I could. Although I’ve been to Bogota several...
by Bruce | April 18, 2018 | Articles, Latin America, Leadership, Strategy
April is the cruelest Latin America month. This month has taken and is taking me to Santiago, Chile, Bogota, Colombia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, traveling with Adam Smith, Esq.’s Director in Latin America, Antonio Leal Holguin. (Antonio splits his time between Santiago...
by Bruce | October 11, 2017 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Latin America, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
The following article is reprinted by kind permission of Thomson Reuters, where it first appeared in their Forum magazine. It was written by Antonio Leal Holguin, Director, Adam Smith, Esq. The Colombian case. Twenty years ago, Colombian lawyers were still artisans....
by Bruce | August 29, 2017 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization, Latin America, Marketing
In its latest issue, Dinero, Colombia’s most important business magazine, published an interview with our Bogotá-based Director, Antonio Leal Holguín. The interview is part of a special edition on law firms, which the magazine publishes once a year. The special...
by Bruce | July 19, 2017 | About the Site, Articles, Latin America
With the addition to our team of Antonio Leal Holguin, our Director based in Bogota, it was time to add a Spanish language version of key pages of our site. They are: Our services and what we do (this also links to case studies in Spanish); Bruce’s background;...
