Beccar Varela

Managing Partner: Maximiliano D’Auro

Managing Partner Emeritus : Horacio E Beccar Varela

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

Number of partners: 46

Number of other fee-earners: 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.

Main Areas of Practice:

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.

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.

Agribusiness:

In-depth industry knowledge of this motor of the economy.

Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring:

Services include prejudicial proceedings, credit recovery, enforcement of guarantees, ineffective operations, bankruptcy extensions, and liability actions.

Competition/Antitrust:

The team has had great success in many of the major operations, including antidumping.

Compliance:

Expert advice and in-house training on business ethics, anti-corruption, and money laundering, as well as investigations and asset tracing.

Consumer Law:

The portfolio includes thousands of proceedings throughout the country, both class actions and individual damage claims.

Environment & Climate Change:

Regulatory, permitting, and compliance-related issues and audits, as well as due diligence for M&A transactions.

ESG:

The firm provides interdisciplinary advice on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) business models, including impact investments.

Fintech:

Detailed knowledge of the regulatory complexities facing this fast-evolving sector.

Life Sciences:

All legal matters concerning the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.

Insurance:

Addresses specific legislation related to insurance companies, as well as representation in legal proceedings.

Intellectual Property:

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

International Trade & Customs:

Transaction and policy expertise covers trade agreements, WTO regulations, investigations into the presumed existence of dumping, safeguards, subsidies, and technical obstacles to trade, as well as day-to-day customs issues and special proceedings such as customs indictments.

Labour:

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.

Natural Resources:

Project finance and regulatory advice on major mining, oil & gas, and power projects, including renewable energy.

Private Wealth and Private Clients:

Tailor-made advice to high-net-worth individuals.

Private Equity and Venture Capital:

The team serves all types of investment funds across all transaction stages.

Public Affairs:

Beccar Varela is Argentina’s first law firm to have formally created a Public Affairs Department, providing solutions from the perspective of Argentina’s regulatory framework and its impact on corporate practice.

Public Law:

All projects involving public sector participation, such as public bids, contracts, PPP, infrastructure concessions, and public law litigation.

Real Estate:

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 on all aspects of TMT.

White Collar/Corporate Crime:

Beccar Varela pioneered the incorporation of this practice area in local full-service law firms.

International Work:

Clients include leading financial and industrial companies from all parts of the globe. The firm regularly supports international investors involved in major banking, industrial, and commercial, transactions, and manages Latin America-wide strategies through superb relations with law firms throughout the region. The firm’s office in Montevideo, Uruguay, offers strategic legal guidance to clients for their regional operations. Beccar Varela has proudly served clients such as Citi for over 100 years and is equally dedicated to its pro bono clients.

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: +54 11 4379 6800

[email protected]

www.beccarvarela.com