Beccar Varela

Managing Partner: Maximiliano D’Auro

Managing Partner Emeritus: Horacio E Beccar Varela

Executive Committee: Maximiliano D’Auro, Tomás Allende, Gonzalo García Delatour, Fernanda Mierez, Miguel Remmer and María Shakespear

Number of partners: 47

Number of other fee-earners: 120

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

Firm Overview:

Founded in 1897, Beccar Varela is among the best full-service corporate law firms in Argentina, with a team of over 160 lawyers,many of whom have studied or worked in the world’s business capitals. With a main office in the heart of Buenos Aires and a branch in Buenos Aires province, our attorneys have advised clients in Argentina and abroad for over 125 years. Our superb relations with law firms and clients throughout the region enable us to seamlessly support complex cross-border initiatives and Latin America-wide strategies. Our office in the free trade zone in Montevideo, Uruguay, offers clients strategic legal guidance for their regional operations. The firm is an active member of various alliances including the World Services Group, Club de Abogados de Iberoamérica, Interlex, INBLF and ALAE networks.

We combine our knowledge of global and local business cultures to provide strategic tailor-made legal solutions to top-tier multinationals, national companies and private clients, as well as start-ups and not-for-profit organizations. Our client roster includes top corporate heavyweights from Argentina and around the world across all industrial sectors, and our lawyers are experts in industries including banking and fintech, agribusiness, software and technology, life sciences and pharmaceuticals, power/energy, mining, oil & gas and automotive, to name just a few.

As today’s modern paradigm demands, we provide interdisciplinary legal advice on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) business models. Beccar Varela is the leading law firm in Argentina for clients focused on global issues such as corporate sustainability and triple impact. We were the country’s first full-service law firm to join the United Nations Global Compact and to produce a Sustainability Report. Our corporate sustainability strategy provides a concrete demonstration of our commitment to doing business in an integrated and sustainable manner including promoting diversity and inclusion, and we are exceptionally proud of our decades-long pro bono work.

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

Core practice areas:

As a top full-service firm in Argentina, we are especially known for our market-leading legal services in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), banking and finance, project finance, capital markets, tax, dispute resolution (litigation and arbitration), labor and employment and all matters ESG, including compliance and environment.

Full-service legal advice:

Agribusiness

Art Law

Banking & Financial Institutions

Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring

Capital Markets

Company Law

Competition & Antitrust

Compliance & Investigations

Consumer Protection

Data Privacy & Data Protection – Cybersecurity

Dispute Resolution: Arbitration

Dispute Resolution: Litigation

Entrepreneurship

Environmental Law & Climate Change

ESG

Family Business

Fintech

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Insurance & Reinsurance

Intellectual Property – Patents & Trademarks

International Trade & Customs

Labor/Employment & Social Security Law

Maritime Law

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) – Corporate Law

Mining

Oil & Gas

Power/Energy

Private Equity & Venture Capital

Private Wealth & Private Clients (HNWIs)

Product Liability

Project Finance

Public Affairs

Public Law/Administrative Law

Real Estate & Hospitality

Sports Law

Tax Law

TMT (Telecoms, Media, Technology)

Trusts & Trust Services

White Collar & Corporate Crime

International Work:

Clients include leading financial and industrial companies from all parts of the globe. Our 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. Our office in Montevideo, Uruguay, offers strategic legal guidance to clients for their regional operations. We have proudly served clients such as Citi for over 100 years and are equally dedicated to its pro bono clients.

Offices:

Head Office. Edificio República, Tucumán 1, 5th floor (C1049AAA), Buenos Aires, Argentina. T: +54 11 4379 6800

Northern Branch. Torre de las Naciones, Luis García 695, 9th floor (B1648AEC), Tigre, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Beccar Varela Internacional. WTC Montevideo Free Zone, Dr.Luis Bonavita 1294, Office 310 (11300), Montevideo, Uruguay. T:+598 2626 2245

[email protected]

www.beccarvarela.com