Juan M. Diehl Moreno

Career

Juan M. Diehl Moreno is the head of the FinTech Department and partner in the firm’s Banking & Corporate Finance Department since 2006. He has broad experience in FinTech, foreign investments, M&A, banking, FX and capital controls, and capital markets law.

In recent years, digital innovation has had an unprecedented impact on financial services, which has led him to carry out an increasingly active role in providing a full range of strategic legal advice to financial institutions and FinTech innovators. Many of whom need advice while developing and adopting products and services such as e-payment platforms and apps, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, digital loans and factoring, and digital banking.

His professional practice is also focused on local and international financial and commercial transactions including M&A, bilateral and syndicated loans, debt restructuring, structuring of trusts, real estate, foreign exchange markets, IPO and public and private debt issues. His work includes a wide range of business contracts, advising major companies, banks and multilateral credit agencies in more than 100 transactions.

From 2002 to 2006 Juan assisted Telecom Argentina group, comprising 4 companies in 2 countries, in its USD 4 billion debt restructuring, the largest cross-border insolvency case in Argentina’s history. He has also worked in several M&A transactions, including the sale of the wind energy projects Isolux Corsán, the assets of the meat and wheat flour divisions of Cargill, Páginas Amarillas and the purchase of Cubecorp. During 2015-2016 he assisted Telecom Italia in the sale of the Telecom Argentina group to FinTech group for an amount of USD 960 million.

The world leading guide in legal matters, Chambers & Partners; International Financial Law Review (IFLR 1000); PLC Practical Law Company, International Law Office (ILO) and the Argentine magazine Apertura have all recognized Diehl Moreno for several years as a “leading lawyer” in his fields of practice in the Argentine legal sector. In 2019, he was recognized as recommended lawyer in the FinTech category by Who’s Who Legal, and in 2020, as excellent lawyer in FinTech by Leaders League. He was recognized by "ILO Client Choice Award" as the best Argentine lawyer in the area of Banking in 2016 and 2018, and in the area of Asset Finance in 2017.

Chambers & Partners has ranked Juan as Band 1 in FinTech and described him as “an exceptional lawyer, who is not only capable of dealing with banking and FinTech legal matters, but who also has a broad understanding of their commercial context,” “very proficient and proactive at providing in-depth insight and finding solutions to our regulatory needs,” as having “a straightforward style and a business-oriented view, noting his political sense and practicality in transactions “which makes it easy for a multinational company to work with him.”

Before joining the firm, he worked for the law firm Carregal & Funes de Rioja (1989-1997), and at Sidley Austin, New York, USA as foreign associate (2000-2001).

Juan graduated as a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina in 1993, has a Master’s in Business Law degree (thesis qualified magna cum laude) from the Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, in 1996, and a Master’s of Law degree (with honors) from Northwestern University, Chicago, U.S.A. in 2000.

He is Coordinator of the Legal Work Group of the LACChain Ecosystem for Argentina (led by the IDB Lab), and an active member of different professional associations and institutions that aim to promote trade development, including the Argentine-Russian Business Council (CEAR), in his capacity as Vice President. Diehl Moreno is also a member of the Argentine Bar’s Lawyers Committee (Comité de Abogados de la República Argentina).

He speaks frequently at seminars and conferences both in Argentina and abroad. He has published many articles on his field of expertise in well-known FinTech, legal and financial journals.