García Pullés & Calatrava Abogados

García Pullés & Calatrava Abogados recognized that legal advisory services today demand a shift in approach, focusing on more personalised client engagement with direct involvement from the key leaders of every organization. As a result, it has assembled a highly renowned team in the market, recognised for their outstanding performance and excellence. The distinguished professional careers of each team member, along with their personal commitment to the firm's clients, form the foundation on which it delivers concrete solutions that add value to its services.

Its team has demonstrated remarkable success in assisting both local and international clients, complemented by the significant experience gained by its members in judicial roles, academia, public administration, and private legal practice. It combines the diversity of education and professional practice, both locally and internationally, with proven expertise across various areas of law and business. These foundations enable a multidisciplinary approach to advisory services, adding value and facilitating success.

Public and Administrative Law: The background of its lawyers uniquely qualifies them to advise and represent clients in matters of Administrative and Constitutional Law at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels; disputes related to specially regulated economic activities; and processes of contractual or tariff renegotiation. The firm also assists in administrative proceedings and appeals, as well as in public procurement, tenders, and public contracts.

Furthermore, García Pullés & Calatrava Abogados represents clients in highly complex cases during their formation and development, litigating against national, provincial, and municipal governments (public law disputes and judicial review) across a wide range of ius-administrative relationships. This includes filing direct appeals against punitive administrative acts, appellate remedies before federal and provincial courts, extraordinary federal appeals before the Supreme Court of Justice, and cases within the original jurisdiction of the nation’s highest court.

The experience gained by its team members in public service roles, legal advisory to the National Government, and judicial proceedings, as well as their ongoing academic contributions in this field, positions the firm to offer this practice area as a hallmark of its professional services. Its track record of results has earned recognition from both peers and clients.

Corporate Law and M&A: The members of the team possess solid local and international training and experience, having provided corporate advisory services in numerous transactions for clients ranging from entrepreneurs and start-ups to family businesses and local and international companies. It offers services across a broad range of corporate and transactional matters, including, but not limited to: Analysis of contractual or corporate structures for local or foreign investments; Company formation and registration law (CNV, IGJ, DPPJ, etc.); Start-ups (Structuring capital among founding partners, employees, and investors); Family businesses; Mergers, demergers, and acquisitions. Transfer of shareholding and assets; Legal audits and due diligence processes; Corporate reorganisations; Negotiation of private and para-corporate contracts; Strategic alliances and joint ventures; Issuance of bonds, high-yield bonds, and other debt instruments; Negotiation and registration of technology transfer and technical assistance agreements; Compliance and corporate governance practices, ethical codes, and audit policies; Processes for capital opening, both public and private. IPOs; Commercial advisory for businesses, shareholders, senior management, boards of directors, and committees.

The firm provides comprehensive advisory services, which also include competition law, environmental law, labour law, and tax planning.

Dispute Resolution: The current contentious practice not only includes individual disputes. The general terms and conditions of contracts, consumer relations, user protection, and the regulation of the ius-administrative relationship demand the consideration of other types of disputes, which are governed by different principles. The firm has pioneered the first regulations for structural and class actions processes and has been involved in some of the most significant institutional or economically impactful matters for the country. The handling of these collective disputes or those with significant management challenges has been carried out not only within the judicial or arbitral realms but also through negotiation and dispute resolution, with our professional activity focused on mitigating the harmful consequences for all parties involved.

National and International Arbitration: The firm has been actively involved in national and international arbitrations, representing clients under the rules of the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL, and the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange Tribunal. These proceedings have been of diverse nature, including civil, commercial, entertainment, gambling, sports law, telecommunications, construction, public services, and foreign investment matters.

Entertainment, Gambling, and Sports Law: The firm provides advisory services to several of the country's leading concessionaires in relation to the management of their concessions, licences, or authorisations, as well as on tax matters related to their activities. It has also assisted service providers within the gaming industry.

Simultaneously, the firm offers advisory services to both local and international clients in analysing regulatory frameworks across various jurisdictions within the country. This includes participation in the preparation of bids and the subsequent management of contracts or licences with regulatory authorities. The firm has provided legal services in both public and private tender processes related to gaming operations and represents clients before federal and local courts in disputes related to these activities.

Additionally, the firm has offered legal advice in the area of sports law, assisting with the organisation of local and international sporting events, matters related to sports institutions, the representation of athletes, and the exploitation of their intellectual property rights.

The firm also provides legal counsel on matters of Real Estate and on Family and Inheritance Law.