Abeledo Gottheil Abogados

Abeledo Gottheil has vast experience and professional background giving advice to local and foreign clients in corporate law in general, as well as in processes for mergers and acquisitions of companies.

Our services comprise, in general, the assistance in all of the company’s corporate matters, as well as advice in a start-up, M&A, disposals, demergers, joint ventures, restructurings, corporate governance and regulatory compliance, with a particular focus on cross-border transactions.

We intervene in all the stages of the process, as from the beginning, dealing with the performance or coordination of due diligences, presentation of reports, drafting and negotiation of contracts and implementation of acts following the completion of the transaction.

Our Corporate Law Department – Mergers & Acquisitions team works with a collaborative focus with other departments of the Firm and of the client, so as to evaluate the impact of its operations in different matters, that may be tax, labor, contractual, defense of competition issues, among others, with the purpose of generating synergies that allow enhancing the professional service offered by us.

The members of our team have taken specialization courses on the matter and postgraduate programs, both local and abroad, and in addition they are recognized by the international publications Best Lawyer, Who’s who legal, Legal 500, LACCA and Latin Lawyer 250, among others.

Abeledo Gottheil has broad experience in Labor Law, both in individual and collective labor law.

The Law Firm gives advice to the clients in processes for the acquisition of companies, carrying out the labor and social security “due diligence”, cooperating in the determination of the labor liabilities and contingencies of the companies to be acquired or of the going concerns subject matter of a transfer and in the minimization of its impact for the acquiring party.

In the last few years it has been involved also in important processes for the restructuring, reduction and suspension of personnel. Said activities have given to the members of the Labor Law Department broad experience in crisis procedures, collective conflicts with forceful measures and compulsory settlement processes.

Abeledo Gottheil represents its clients in different kind of labor lawsuits pending in all the country.

Our practice in the subject has been recognized by Latin Lawyer 250 several times.

Abeledo Gottheil gives legal advice on immigration issues and related social security, labor, tax and customs matters in the expatriation of qualified personnel of companies.

Among the services offered by the Firm the following may be listed:

• Integral analysis of expatriation and incidence as from the tax, social security and labor standpoint.
• General advice for expatriates (covering the three stages of expatriation (before expatriation, during its development and at the end thereof).
• Preparation of labor policies and contracts to set forth expatriation, repatriation and transfer conditions.
• Management and renewal of temporary residences and obtention of permanent residences in the country.
• Obtention of visas for investors, technical professionals and/or businesses, either provisional or temporary.
• Obtention of temporary labor residences.
• Obtention and renewal of the National Identity Document (DNI) for foreigners and of the Labor Identification Unique Code (Código Único de Identificación Laboral).
• Obtention and renewal of applications for temporary transfers under the terms of bilateral and multilateral agreements on social security.
• Advice and obtention of exemptions to the Argentine local social security regime for scientists and specialized staff temporarily assigned to Argentina and coming from countries with which the Argentine Republic has not executed bilateral or multilateral agreements on social security.

Abeledo Gottheil has vast experience in litigation, either before commercial, civil and administrative courts, in managing a large amount of cases with the aim to achieve effective solutions, as fast and as economically as possible. Our lawyers are grouped in working teams, and work together with technical consultants and professionals from other fields when required, in order to efficiently produce every type of necessary evidence.

Throughout the years Abeledo Gottheil Abogados developed an extensive experience in complex litigation matters, pending both before the national, federal and provincial courts and arbitration courts seated in different jurisdictions, and successfully intervening in many cases of public importance.

The excellence of our practice has been recognized by clients and colleagues, and our tea, m has been highlighted in international publications as an example or leaders in Litigations and Resolution of Disputes, such as Chambers and Partners, Who's who legal, The Legal 500, and Latin Lawyer 250, among others. Likewise, the members of our team, either partners or associates, have taken masters, LLM and specializations on the issue, both in Argentina and abroad.

Our experience in extraordinary appeals (both, at a federal and provincial level) has resulted in the issuance of multiple leading cases by the intervening Supreme Courts of Justice, which decisions were later on followed by the lower courts, generating thus case law in different matters; among many other judgments, we may mentioned the well-known leading cases obtained in favor of our clients before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation; “Rodríguez, Juan Ramón v. Compañía Embotelladora Argentina S.A. et alius, Appeal on Points of Fact “, dated April 15, 1993; “Municipality of Mercedes v. Arcor S.A.I.C., for collection of a debt of record”, August 27, 2012; “L´Oreal Argentina S.A. v. Municipality of Justo Daract, Administrative litigation Complaint”, dated December 16, 2014; and “Municipality of Junín v. Cadbury Stani Adams Argentina SAIC, for collection of a debt of record”, dated September 27, 2018.

Our legal practice covers all the branches of business Law, with great experience in international processes and transactions.

Our clients include the most important local and foreign industries and companies.

With more than 60 lawyers, 40 paralegals and back-up staff, Abeledo Gottheil Abogados is also one of the greatest firms in Argentina and it is continuing to grow keeping however the Firm’s tradition in the professional practice by its members, of cost effectively rendering legal services to its clients at the highest levels of excellence.

The members of our team, either partners or associates, have completed masters, LLM and specializations, both in Argentina and abroad, or have worked in American Firms, and they participate actively as well, in several local and international professional associations, just like the International Bar Association, International Chamber of Commerce, International Fiscal Association, Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, International Trademark Association, among many others.

Abeledo Gottheil represents and legally advises local and international investors in the purchase and sale of industrial plants, land, buildings and agricultural ventures. He also advises investors, project developers, managers of real estate and hotel ventures, consortia of owners, among others, in the start-up of their businesses, their incorporation into third-party projects, as well as in the day-to-day operations, including corporate, contractual, exchange and tax aspects.

Our team also assists its clients in identifying and selecting business and investment opportunities, advising them fully regarding land use restrictions in accordance with applicable regulations, and the conditions and permits required for the management of their businesses.

Our team members have completed specialization and postgraduate courses both in Argentina and abroad, and have proven experience in the field.

Abeledo Gottheil advises large insurance and reinsurance companies, as well as institutional agents and insurance brokers, both in the start-up of their operations and in their strategies for entering the local market, as well as in the day-to-day running of their businesses.

The firm has extensive experience in advising clients on insurance and reinsurance matters, regulatory compliance and compliance with the National Insurance Superintendency, while also assisting its clients in all types of litigation related to the sector.

Our Insurance & reinsurance practice has been recognized by Latin Lawyer.

Among the services provided by the firm's insurance department are:

• Advice for requesting and obtaining insurance licenses from the National Insurance Superintendency (SSN)
• Advice on obtaining authorizations to operate in various branches of property and non-property insurance.
• Advice on requesting and obtaining authorization for technical contractual elements.
• Assistance regarding requirements for issuing large-risk insurance policies; analysis of texts not previously authorized by SSN and issuance of required legal opinions.
• Assistance and representation of insurers before the insurance regulatory body (SSN);
• Formation of local reinsurers and registration of admitted foreign reinsurers.
• Analysis of claims at all stages, liability reports and assessment of legal risk.
• Claims management in extrajudicial, prejudicial (mediation) and judicial stages within the framework of motor vehicle and various risk insurance policies.   
• Management of portfolio of contractual and non-contractual civil liability litigation cases; from the beginning to the end of the process by issuance of a final judgment or as a result of negotiation and reaching an out-of-court settlement.
• Referral to correspondents and follow-up of litigation portfolios pending before courts within the country and neighboring countries.         
• Audit and negotiation of portfolios of lawsuits referred to correspondents.
• Negotiation of cases at all stages of the claim. Suggestion of settlement amounts based on liability reports and estimation of judicial risk.
• Preparation of status reports on procedures at all stages and opinions for the Company's external audit.
• Intervention in administrative and judicial processes for claims from consumers or consumer associations.
• Intervention in credit verification processes promoted by insurance companies in order to recover sums paid or to be paid on the basis of surety insurance policies issued as a guarantee for compliance with customs obligations.
• Intervention in judicial proceedings arising from the application of emergency regulations on pesification to insurance contracts.
• Intervention in legal proceedings initiated by insurance companies in order to recover the amount paid to their insured persons due to the theft of vehicles in commercial establishments.