Beccar Varela

Managing Partner: Maximiliano D’Auro

Managing Partner Emeritus: Horacio E Beccar Varela

Contacts: Tomás Allende, Maximiliano D’Auro, María Shakespear, Gonzalo García Delatour, Miguel Remmer and Manuel Beccar Varela.

Number of partners worldwide: 45

Number of other lawyers worldwide: 120

Languages: Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese

Firm Overview:

Founded in 1897, Beccar Varela is a leading full-service law firm in Argentina. It advises local and international clients in all areas of corporate law across all industries and seamlessly manages complex cross-border initiatives. It is an active member of the World Services Group, Interlex, Club de Abogados, ALAE, and INBLF networks. Beccar Varela is the country’s first full-service law firm to have joined the United Nations Global Compact and to issue a corporate sustainability report. The firm has a dynamic decades-long pro bono program.

Practice Areas:

Corporate/M&A:

Advisory services range from small private acquisitions to listed companies, advising sellers and purchasers from banks, insurance companies and pension administrators, as well as industrial, commercial and service enterprises. The firm advises on corporate strategic decisions as well as on day-to-day business activities, including the negotiation of all kinds of agreements.

Banking & Financial Institutions and Capital Markets:

The firm covers all areas of banking and finance, including exchange regulations, local and foreign currency-secured and syndicated loan transactions, guarantees, structured finance, leasing and project finance. Capital market transactions include debt and equity issuances, corporate and SGS bonds, trust certificates, public offerings (IPOs), ADR issuances and debt securities.

Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring: Advice on prejudicial proceedings, credit recovery, insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, and debt restructuring.

Competition & Antitrust: Advice on enforcement, merger control, counselling and compliance, leniency and anti-dumping.

Compliance & Investigations: Guidance on business integrity and ethics; anti-money laundering and terrorism financing; risk analysis, anti-corruption/fraud codes of conduct; internal investigations and asset tracing and recovery.

Consumer Law and Product Liability: The portfolio includes thousands of proceedings throughout the country, both class actions and individual damage claims.

Data Privacy & Data Protection: Guidance on the full spectrum of related matters including data breaches and cybersecurity.

Environmental law and climate change: Unique climate change risk and compliance guidance, along with regulatory and permitting issues and audits.

ESG: Comprehensive legal service for clients focused on each pillar of ESG.

Fintech: Guidance to clients ranging from unicorns to start-ups, as well as banks and financial institutions.

Healthcare & Life Sciences: All legal matters concerning the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.

Insurance & Reinsurance: Advice on the formation and sale of insurance companies, regulatory matters, and litigation.

Intellectual Property: Advice on protection, prosecution and licensing of patents, trademarks, software, copyrights and domain names, as well as cross-border licensing and litigation strategies.

International Trade & Customs: Transaction and policy expertise covers trade agreements, WTO regulations, dumping investigations, safeguards, subsidies, and technical obstacles to trade, as well as day-to-day customs issues and special proceedings such as customs indictments.

Labour & Employment: The firm handles all matters relating to employment and social security laws, including collective bargaining agreements and international migration.

Litigation & Arbitration: The specialist practice appears before both federal and provincial courts and international arbitration panels.

Power & Natural Resources: Mining, oil & gas, and energy expertise, including project financing.

Private Equity & Venture Capital: The team serves all types of investment funds across all transaction stages.

Private Wealth & Private Clients: Tailor-made advice to high-net-worth individuals.

Public affairs: Audits and guidance based on regulatory frameworks.

Public Law: Advice on projects involving public sector participation, such as public bids, contracts, PPP, infrastructure concessions, and public law litigation.

Real Estate & Hospitality: Guidance to investors seeking to acquire, develop, or finance real estate and hotel projects.

Tax: Legal advice on complex tax matters at national, provincial, and municipal levels.

Telecoms, Media, Technology: The firm serves a powerhouse client roster in all three pillars of TMT.

White Collar & Corporate Crime: Beccar Varela pioneered the incorporation of this practice area in local full-service law firms.

International Work:

The firm regularly supports international investors involved in major banking, industrial, commercial, mining, and energy transactions, and manages Latin America-wide strategies through superb relations with law firms throughout the region. It also has an office in the free trade zone in Montevideo, Uruguay, offering clients strategic legal guidance for their regional operations. Beccar Varela has proudly served clients such as Citi for over 100 years.

Offices:

Head Office: Tucumán 1, 3rd fl., Buenos Aires, Argentina (C1049AAA)

Northern Branch: Luis García 695, 9th fl., Tigre, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina (B1648AEC)

Tel: +5411 4379 6800

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