Market: Argentina

Watch: Law Firm Leader of the Year winner Horacio Beccar Varela

Featured in 17th Annual Awards

Horacio Beccar Varela, managing partner of the eponymous Argentine firm, received this year’s Law Firm Leader of the Year Award. In a conversation with Latin Lawyer, he discusses the management decisions he is most proud of and how resilience has been an essential facet to his leadership over the past two decades.

11 July 2023

Several firms help Toyota invest in Argentine logistics group

Marval O'Farrell Mairal in Buenos Aires, three Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría offices, Galicia Abogados in Mexico City and Uruguay’s Posadas have helped Toyota invest in Argentine logistics technology company Moova.

11 July 2023

Lawyers slam Argentine merger regime after delayed Linde-Praxair remedies

Competition lawyers have lambasted Argentina’s merger review process as a “waste of time” after the country’s government took almost five years to impose remedies on Linde’s €80 billion (US$87 billion) merger with Praxair.

10 July 2023

Marval and Tavarone Rovelli seal cement offering in Argentina

Marval O'Farrell & Mairal has helped Argentine cement company Loma Negra raise US$71 million in an issuance of notes.

04 July 2023

Argentina’s Mendoza and Rosario raise funds

The Argentine province of Mendoza and the city of Rosario have hired DLA Piper (Argentina) and Nicholson y Cano Abogados, respectively, to raise funds through debt issuances.

03 July 2023

Bruchou and TCA return for oil company dept tap

Oil pipeline company Oleoductos del Valle has enlisted Bruchou & Funes de Rioja to raise US$64 million in a debt issuance, with the proceeds aimed at expanding Argentina’s oil production.

29 June 2023

Regional Team of the Year: MercadoLibre

The legal department at MercadoLibre, winners of LACCA’s Regional Team of the Year Award, have a reputation for being one of the most sophisticated and innovative in-house teams in Latin America. We speak to GC Jacobo Imach Cohen about the importance of being business enablers and why AI should be embraced by lawyers.

27 June 2023

Bruchou and TCA return for new YPF issuance

Argentine state-owned oil company YPF has enlisted Bruchou & Funes de Rioja to raise US$125 million through a debt issuance.

26 June 2023

Pan American lands US$300 million CAF loan in Argentina

Argentina’s Pan American Energy has called on Martínez de Hoz & Rueda in Buenos Aires to secure an A/B loan worth US$300 million from Latin American development bank Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF).

12 June 2023

Argentine agribusiness lands US$250 million IDB Invest loan

Argentine soybean business Molinos Agro has called on Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani in Buenos Aires to secure a US$250 million A/B credit facility from IDB Invest.

07 June 2023

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