Antonio Arias Etchebarne

Corporate

Emerging Growth and Venture Capital

Finance

Mergers & Acquisitions

Private Equity

Technology

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Antonio worked at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (2012), and served as an associate at the São Paulo office of Brazilian Machado Meyer, Sendacz and Opice Advogados (2011 and 2013-2015).

Law Clerk, The Honorable Anthony Scirica, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2010.

"Regulación Fintech: Finanzas Abiertas" April, 2023

"The companies that own projects for the generation of electricity from renewable energy sources that were awarded Renewable Electricity Supply Contracts (“PPAs”) that have not reached the Commercial Operation Date (“COD””), may choose to request the termination of their PPA or its renewal." January, 2022

M&A

• Banco Itaú. Advised in the acquisition of fintechs Prex (Econstar S.A.) and Paigo (Floder S.A.) in several jurisdictions in LatAm.

• Advent International. Advised in the acquisition of a majority stake in Neoris, a large Argentine tech consultancy and digital transformation service company.

• International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. -IFF. Advised as Argentine counsel to International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. in a reverse carve-out, and sale to LANXESS (one of the world’s largest suppliers of microbial control and biocidal products), a global transaction worth US$1,300 million.

• Avenga International GmbH (an Oaktree Capital portfolio company). Advised in the crossborder acquisition of Harriague y Asociados S.R.L and Incluit LLC.

• The Carlyle Group. Advised on an acquisition of a company in Argentina and other five jurisdictions.

• Tyson Foods. Advised in the acquisition of a company in multiple jurisdictions.

Venture Capital

• Karvi Ltd. Advised in its financing rounds, pre-seed, seed, Series A, Series B and certain bridge rounds.

• Uali Holding Limited. Advised in its financing rounds, pre-seed and seed.

• Bookaway Ltd. Advised in its Series C.

• Digiventures. Advised this fintech on its corporate restructuring (including a stock swap transaction) and with its financing round led by Y Combinator.

• El Callao. Advised this fintech in several matters involving IP, corporate structure, financing.

• Advised several clients on corporate structuring including flip of the cap table, IP allocation, international tax and design and implementation of incentive plans.

Financing

• Oaktree Capital Management L.P. Advise the client as a creditor of Latam Airlines, Tranche A, for US$1,300 million for the DIP (“Debtor-in-Possession”) Financing Contract in Latin America – Awarded “Deal of the Year 2021” in the category "Banking and Finance" by Latin Lawyer.

• Seaspan Corporation. Advised in the US$750 million acquisition of APR Energy and its related secured revolving credit facilities, including structuring of local collateral.

• Royal Bank of Canada and bondholders. Advised in the US$700 million credit agreement and US$625 million bond issuance, to finance Enerflex in the acquisition of Exterran.