Founded in 1897, Beccar Varela is a leading full-service law firm in Argentina, with a team of over 160 lawyers. With a main office in the heart of Buenos Aires and a branch in Buenos Aires province, the firm has advised clients in Argentina and abroad for over 125 years. It also has an office in the free trade zone in Montevideo, Uruguay, offering clients strategic legal guidance for their regional operations. The firm is an active member of the World Services Group, Club de Abogados de Iberoamérica, Interlex, INBLF and ALAE networks. Beccar Varela is the first full-service law firm in Argentina to have joined the United Nations Global Compact and to issue a sustainability report.
Languages: Spanish, English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese.
Main areas of practice
Administrative law: Advice on projects that involve public sector participation, such as public bids, contracts, infrastructure concessions and public law litigation.
Antitrust/competition: Advice on enforcement, merger control, counselling and compliance, leniency and anti-dumping.
Banking, project finance: All areas of banking and finance, including local and foreign currency, secured and syndicated loan transactions, guarantees, structured finance, leasing and project finance.
Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring: Advice on prejudicial proceedings, credit recovery, insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, and debt restructuring.
Capital markets: Extensive range of transactions, such as debt and equity issuances, corporate and SGS bonds, trust certificates, public offerings, ADR issuances and debt securities.
Compliance: Guidance on business integrity and ethics; anti-money laundering and terrorism financing; risk analysis, anti-corruption/fraud codes of conduct; internal investigations and asset tracing and recovery.
Corporate law: Corporate strategic decisions and day-to-day business activities, including the negotiation of all kinds of agreements.
Energy and natural resources: Oil and gas, mining, energy expertise including project financing.
Environmental law and climate change: Unique climate change risk and compliance guidance.
ESG: Comprehensive legal service for clients focused on each pillar of ESG.
Fintech: Guidance to clients ranging from unicorns to start-ups, as well as banks and financial institutions.
Insurance: Advice on the formation and sale of insurance companies, regulatory matters, litigation.
Intellectual property, data privacy: Guidance on the full spectrum of related matters.
International trade and customs: Including bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, WTO regulations, investigations, safeguards, and technical obstacles to trade.
Labour law: All matters relating to Argentine employment and social security laws, including collective bargaining agreements.
Healthcare and life sciences: All matters concerning the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
Litigation and arbitration: Specialist litigation and arbitration practice appearing before both federal and provincial courts and international arbitration panels.
M&A, private equity: Advisory services ranging from small private acquisitions to listed companies, advising both sellers and purchasers.
Public affairs: Audits and guidance based on regulatory frameworks.
Real estate: Advice to investors seeking to acquire, develop or finance real estate property or hotel projects.
Tax: Advice on different tax matters at national, provincial and municipal levels.
TMT: All aspects of communication and technology-related areas.
White-collar and corporate crime: Corporate crime advice at the national, provincial and municipal level.
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+54 11 4379 6800
www.beccarvarela.com
https://beccarvarela.com
Edificio República, Tucumán 1, piso 3 (C1049AAA)
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tel: +54 11 4379-6800
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