Marcelo Etchebarne

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance

Capital Markets

Corporate M&A

Restructuring

Career

Marcelo Etchebarne serves as the Managing Partner of DLA Piper Argentina, Latin America Regional Practice Group Leader for the Corporate-Capital Markets Practice, and Special Projects Regional Leader for the Asia Practice.

With over 30 years of experience, Marcelo has extensive experience in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, debt restructurings and complex dispute resolution, having worked on more than 250 transactions over the last two decades, including some of the largest transactions taking place in Latin America.

He designed some of the most innovative multi-billion cross border transactions taking place in the region, including five Latin American deals of the year in recent times. Marcelo acted as lead counsel to the Ad-hoc Creditors Committee on YPF's US$6.2 billion restructuring, the project bond and related financings and acquisitions of Stoneway Capital for US$1.1 billion, the representation of Vicentin on its US$1.5 billion restructuring (ongoing), the representation of bondholders on the US$66 billion debt exchange of Argentina, the successful representation of AES against YPF on a US$1 billion claim (settled), and Methanex against Petrobras (settled). He also designed the US$18.3 billion Argentine debt restructuring in 2010, in which he served as legal counsel to the Global Coordinator, Barclays Capital. Between 2002 and 2004 he acted as counsel to UBS on the US$80 billion debt restructuring of Argentina. Between 2012 and 2016 he represented multiple institutional investors in connection with the Argentine debt litigation in New York courts. He has been frequently interviewed and quoted by the Financial Times, CNN and The Economist.

Marcelo serves as a Trustee, Co-Chair of the Development Committee and Member of the Executive Committee of the Eisenhower Fellowships in Philadelphia. The Eisenhower Fellowships is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to identifying outstanding ascendant leaders who share President Eisenhower's belief in the powerful possibilities of a more peaceful, prosperous and just world and to help them produce impactful change (www.efworld.org).

Marcelo additionally serves as Trustee of the El Museo del Barrio in Harlem, New York, the largest museum dedicated to Latin American artists. He also served as Board Member at the Rainforest Foundation in New York, Treasurer of Americanos del Sur en el Siglo XXI in Buenos Aires, Senior Advisor to the Advanced Leadership Foundation in Washington DC, Member of the Pro-Bono Committee at the Colegio de Abogados de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, and Vice Chairman of the Harvard International Law Society.

Professional Memberships

Trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowships in Philadelphia

Trustee World Jurist Association

Member of the Board of Trustees of the El Museo del Barrio in Harlem, New York