Rosso Alba & Rougès

THE FIRM

Since its foundation in 2004, the firm combines the experiences and capabilities of lawyers with different and complementary expertise developed during years of work at first tier law firms in Buenos Aires and abroad. The firm regularly advises some of Argentina’s major multinational companies and also an important number of domestic companies, offering tailored services according to its clients’ specific needs and requirements. The firm also provides day-to-day general corporate, tax and compliance support.

MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE

Administrative & Regulatory Law:

Rosso Alba & Rougés’ expertise is long-standing and comprehensive in all fields of regulatory and administrative law, including a wide range of regulated industries, government contracts and contentious proceedings, among other public law related fields.

Mergers & Acquisitions:

The mergers and acquisitions practice is one of Rosso Alba & Rougés’ core practices. The firm and its members have significant expertise in mergers, spin-offs, divestitures, buy-outs and other transactions, from small private acquisitions to large public cross-border takeovers, and in the restructuring and reorganisation of companies. The work includes designing and implementing complex and tailor made international corporate reorganisations transactions aimed at streamlining clients’ corporate groups, as well as negotiating all documentation for financing, credit support and derivative transactions.

Tax Structuring & Transfer Pricing:

Rosso Alba & Rougés’s tax practice group has been consistently recognised as a leading one among Argentine law firms. Its multidisciplinary team advises major multinationals on tax structuring issues, including transfer pricing, tax-efficient financings, hybrid instruments and entities, tax treaty issues and competent authority proceedings, M&A tax structuring and corporate reorganisations. The tax litigation practice assists clients in their conflicts with federal, provincial and city tax authorities both before Federal and Provincial Courts. The firm represents a variety of clients in major complex tax conflicts involving foreign exchange differences, inflation adjustments, value added tax reimbursements, export and import duties, special customs regimes, state gross turnover tax and municipal levies. The tax-controversy team litigates regularly before the Argentine Revenue Service, the National Tax Court, the Federal Courts of Appeals and the Federal Supreme Court. The tax practice has a specific team devoted to wealth-management advice, which combines the expertise of international tax experts coupled with Civil and Conflicts of Laws specialists, who work comprehensively on trusts, estates and forced heirship matters. On transfer pricing grounds, it is one of few law firms with in-house economists and accountants, teaming up with specialised tax lawyers; being involved in the current largest tax controversies related to commodity exporters, the pharmaceutical and the automobile industries.

International Trade & Customs:

Rosso Alba & Rougés' knowledge of customs regulations and opportunities through the markets in Argentina, together with our customs long term practical experience, enables us to offer original solutions designed to expand opportunities, increase competitiveness and make import and export businesses more profitable as well as certain. Said expertise encompasses the knowledge of applicable domestic regulations and practices.

White Collar & Corporate Crime:

Rosso Alba & Rougés represents local and international clients in a wide array of criminal matters, both as defense counsel and private prosecutor. Our team also specializes in preventive criminal advice, including compliance programs, due diligence and other strategies aimed at limiting secondary implications of criminal proceedings.

Foreign Exchange and Capital Controls:

Rosso Alba & Rougés' Foreign Exchange Law department has extensive experience advising local and international clients, particularly from a precautionary point of view. Our specialty is focused on the exchange regulations applicable to financial, commercial and foreign trade operations of goods and services, as well as the requirements and exchange criminal proceedings that the Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) may initiate.

INTERNATIONAL WORK

The firm co-founded the Latin America Tax and Legal Network (LATAXNET), an alliance of top ranked law firms in the region which covers 18 countries, and is also member of WTS Global, which is the preeminent non-audit tax practice worldwide with representation in over 100 countries.

CLIENTS

Rosso Alba & Rougés provides regular advice and litigation services to major national and multinational companies in the following industries, among others: Oil and Gas, grain and biodiesel exporters, automobile, media, food and massive consumption products, construction, mining and infrastructure. The firm currently advises half of the twenty largest exporting companies of the country.