M & M Bomchil Abogados

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M & M Bomchil is committed to providing comprehensive solutions to our clients’ problems while conducting ourselves with honesty and integrity in a cordial and loyal professional relationship. The firm’s key strengths include precise legal advice, quick turnaround, efficient teamwork among all areas, client business knowledge and a business-focused approach.

Main areas of practice

Arbitration: The firm has gained significant expertise in international arbitration under the rules of the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, ICDR and UNCITRAL, among others. It is considered a regional leader and its members are regularly involved either as counsel, arbitrators or experts in complex commercial, regulatory and investment disputes.

Competition and trade: The competition group is a recognised leader in this field, with a balanced practice covering cartel and abuse of dominance investigations (including successful Appellate and Supreme Court experience), merger control and trade issues, particularly concerning anti-dumping, subsidies and safeguard measures.

Corporate and commercial: The firm is highly renowned for its expertise on developing innovative corporate structures and managing corporate conflicts.

Energy: This practice has actively taken part in several matters considered milestones in Argentina, such as the first electricity sale agreement; the development of the Comahue-Buenos Aires electrical grid; the first five-year rate review in the gas industry, and contracts and disputes related to gas and electricity exportations, among others.

Entertainment: This practice has been involved in the purchase, sale and restructuring of the most important media and entertainment companies in the recent years. The team has extensive knowledge on both the legal and business aspects of this sector.

Environmental: This area provides comprehensive legal advice on environmental matters, from day-to-day and preventive issues to complex litigation and environmental managenment systems certifications (ISO 14,001).

Financial services and capital markets: The firm assists companies, financial entities and multilateral credit institutions in the granting and obtaining of loans, issuance of shares and debt securities, debt restructurings, ship and aircraft financing, public offerings and general banking practice.

Financial restructuring: This area has specialised in advising financial entities in restructuring proceedings before the Central Bank and the courts, and has participated in several cross-border international insolvency cases.

Labour and social security: This group provides advice on all issues related to labour law with regards to individual and collective work relationships, focusing on prevention and complex labour litigation.

Litigation and dispute resolution: The litigation group has substantial experience representing clients in matters ranging from complex commercial issues to collective-type suits under consumer protection laws.

Mergers and acquisitions: This area has unique experience and track record advising local and foreign investors in matters related to the entire M&A process, from the determination of the most adequate corporate structure and its tax planning, to the carrying out of due diligence processes and the drafting and negotiation of purchase and shareholder agreements.

Real estate: The firm advises on the financing of real estate projects, trusts, development and construction of buildings, drafting and negotiation of agreements and advice on financial, tax, environmental, zoning and regulatory issues. In the public works area, the firm has participated in the preparation of the bid proposals for the construction of power stations, road concessions, prison facilities, rail roads and airports, amongst other projects.

Regulatory and administrative law: The firm is a well-recognised leader in this field. It has broad experience in general administrative law and specific regulatory regimes in sectors such as electricity, gas, communications, water and sewage, postal, airport, transport and infrastructure, waste collection and public works. It has successfully represented bidders during the privatisation processes in Argentina and other Latin American countries.

Tax: The firm is highly renowned for its reputation in tax law, in particular in international taxation issues like the interpretation of treaties and transfer pricing, tax planning in business acquisitions and reorganisations and the defence of taxpayers in conflicts with tax authorities before administrative and judicial courts.

Telecommunications: This practice assists foreign investors, operators and regulatory agencies in a broad range of aspects related to fixed telephone, mobile, trunking and other telecommunication services. It has been actively involved in the most important legal and regulatory disputes. It has also advised Argentina’s main cable TV operators, the postal service operator and other private mail carriers.

Languages: English, French, German and Spanish.

Law firm alliances: The Bomchil Group.

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