AREAS OF PRACTICE

  • Advice on the implementation of foreign investments, both by foreign companies or individuals or Argentine citizens located abroad, whether through the purchase of shares or setting up local corporate structures
  • Comprehensive advice on the start-up of our clients’ business until their actual operation, using the most efficient corporate structures
  • Registration and incorporation of local and foreign companies, including all types of recordings and submissions with the surveillance entities of the applicable jurisdictions
  • Advice on share or company purchase processes. Implementation and coordination of interdisciplinary audit processes. Drafting and negotiation of the agreements involved. Takeover implementation
  • Active participation in corporate reorganizations (mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs), both locally and internationally
  • Drafting of business agreements
  • Counsel and structuring of goodwill transfers, business collaboration and joint venture agreements
  • Advice on in or out-of-court corporate disputes
  • Drafting of family protocols and shareholders’ agreements
  • Family business reorganizations
  • Assistance with registration issues due to family and estate-related disputes
  • Advice on family taxation
  • Preparation of registration (or deposit) applications with the Argentine Intellectual Property Institute (Instituto Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial) and the Argentine Copyright Office (Dirección Nacional de Derechos de Autor), as well as international registrations (or deposits) with the pertinent offices
  • Feasibility studies on the registration of trademarks, patents, industrial designs and models
  • Trademark surveillance services, filing of oppositions and defenses in general
  • Legal advice on the negotiation of defenses and/or the dismissal of oppositions
  • Legal advice on trademark disputes
  • General advice on our clients’ daily operative aspects including contractual options for employee hiring, granting of plans, incentives, drafting and/or readjustment of internal regulations, advice on penalty systems, requirements, exchange of letters
  • Negotiation and drafting of labor agreements, including the hiring of expatriates
  • Advice on labor health and safety issues
  • Assistance with the negotiation of labor disputes, representing our clients both in complex court claims or out-of-court processes, including crisis prevention proceedings, salary reductions, work hour readjustments
  • Advice on the labor aspects of corporate reorganizations and/or acquisitions, active participation in the due diligence process, including the survey of contingencies as well as the transfer of staff, among other relevant issues
  • Handling of in and out-of-court claims
  • Advice in case of authorization withdrawal. Voluntary and forced settlement. Manager’s liability
  • Advice and representation of Labor Risks Insurance Companies (ART) in mandatory hearings before the Labor Conciliation Office (SECLO), mediations and court proceedings in all jurisdictions
  • Counsel to Labor Risks Insurance Companies (ART) before the Argentine Labor Risks Office (SRT), the Argentine Ministry of Labor and the Argentine Insurance Office (SSN)
  • Credit and premium recovery
  • Drafting of manuals of procedure, training and subsequent audit handbooks
  • Drafting and adjustment of insurance policies under the applicable law
  • Representation before the Argentine Insurance Office and other regulatory entities