DLA Piper and Venezuelan firm InterJuris have ended their formal relationship after five years working together.

DLA InterJuris has left the DLA Piper Group, an alliance of firms operating under the DLA brand, and will now be known as InterJuris Abogados.

A spokesperson for DLA Piper said: "We will continue to engage the services of the InterJuris team in Caracas, led by Juan Jose Delgado Alvarez, Maria Cecilia Rachadell and Gabriela Rachadell de Delgado, on behalf of clients doing business in Venezuela."

She added that the firm "valued its relationship and history with InterJuris".

The end of the deal means that DLA now has three bases in Latin America, with relationships with firms in Colombia and Brazil and an office in Mexico.

The firm struck its Colombia deal with DLA Piper Martinez Neira in June 2015, following on from a 2010 deal with Brazilian firm Campos Mello Pontes Vinci & Schiller and its launch in Mexico City in 2012.

Last year it combined with Mexico City firm Gallastegui y Lozano.

This is the second DLA relationship to come to an end in the last year after its relationship with South African ally Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr came to an end in August 2015.