Commercial, Companies and Bankruptcy Law. International transactions. Telecommunications Law (international transactions). Entertainment and Media (broadcasting). Family Businesses (agreements and/or protocols). Litigation.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; admitted 1975 in the City of Buenos Aires and in the Province of Buenos Aires.

Education:  School of Law, University of Buenos Aires (1975). Pepperdine University, School of Law, Institute for Dispute Resolution, Los Angeles, California (Mediation, 1996).

Background: Regular Associate Professor of Commercial Law, School of Law, University of Buenos Aires (1984-to date). Professor of Postgraduate Courses in Business and Broadcasting Law, University of Buenos Aires (1995-to date). Arbitrator at the Mediation and Arbitration Business Center (1997-to date). Professor in Postgraduate Courses, UADE Senior, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (Argentine Business University) (1996-to date). Lecturer professor at congresses and seminars on Company, Bankruptcy and Broadcasting Law. Escuela Superior de Economía y Administración de Empresas, ESEADE (Economics and Business Administration University Institute) (1999-2000). Instituto de Estudios Académicos, Universidad Notarial Argentina (Institute of Academic Studies, Argentine Notarial University) (1994-1996). Member of the Drafting Committee for the Bill of Amendment to Law 24.522 on Bankruptcy and Reorganizations (Ministry of Justice, 1999), as well as of the Parliamentary Monitoring Committee thereof. Member of the Drafting Committee for the Preliminary Bill of Amendment to Bankruptcy Law (Ministry of Justice, Resol. 89/97). General counsel to the Municipality of Buenos Aires (1982-1983).

 

Teaching Activities:

Professor of Postgraduate Course on “An In-Depth Analysis of Company Law”, School of Law, University of Buenos Aires, (2001-2014).

Head of Practical Assignments in the Teaching Career, Commercial Law Chair, 1st Part, in charge of Dr. Horacio P. Fargosi, since July, 1980.

Appointed Regular Assistant Professor by competitive examination (Resol. 8330/80) for the Commercial Law Chair, 1st Part, in charge of Dr. Horacio P. Fargosi, since 1992 up to date (Resol. 2985/92).

Professor of the Postgraduate Course in “Telecommunications Law Specialization”, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, UADE (Argentine Business University), Senior (1997-2005).

Professor of the Postgraduate Course in “Business Law for Lawyers, Bankruptcy Unit”, UADE Senior, 1996-2005.

Publications:

La persona jurídica como integrante del Órgano de Administración de las sociedades” (Legal persons as members of the Administrative Board of companies), Revista El Derecho (Journal of Law), Feb. 9, 1979.

“La especialidad del Derecho Mercantil y el art. 3986, 2° parte del Código Civil” (Commercial Law Specialization and Section 3986, 2nd. Part, of the Civil Code”, Diario La Ley (Journal of Law), Jun. 28, 1989.

 

“Impugnabilidad de los actos del Directorio” (Contestability of the Board of Directors’ Acts), paper at the Argentine Congress on Commercial Law, 1990, Vol. 2.

 

“Compraventa accionaria y ‘take over’. La función profesional” (Purchase and sale of shares and take over. The professional role), Negocios Parasocietarios (Shareholders’ Agreements), Instituto de Derecho Comercial, U.N.A., (Commercial Law Institute, Argentine Notarial University), Buenos Aires, 1994.

 

“Perspectivas argentinas. Fusiones, adquisiciones y joint ventures” (Argentine Perspectives. Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures), Collaboration for the Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures Conference, Institute of International Research, New York, April 1995.

 

“El patrimonio afectado. Límites a la irresponsabilidad” (The Affected Equity. Limitations to Irresponsibility), VI Congress of Company Law and II Ibero-American Congress of Company and Business Law, Mar del Plata (Province of Buenos Aires), November 1995. “Argentine and Ibero-American Company Law”.

 

“Sociedad de un solo socio o empresa individual de responsabilidad limitada” (Companies with only one partner or individual limited liability company), paper at the VII Congress on Company Law and III Ibero-American Congress on Company and Business Law, 1998.

 

“En defensa de los acreedores de las partes en los negocios accionarios” (Defending creditors against the parties to stock transactions) in “Cuestiones de Derecho Societario en homenaje a Horacio P. Fargosi” (Issues of Company Law in honor of Horacio P. Fargosi), December 2004.

 

“Un buen comienzo y algunas dudas” (A good start and some doubts), editorial published in the Mediation and Arbitration Business Center’s newsletter, Buenos Aires, March 2013.

 

”Derecho de preferencia y de acrecer” (Preemptive and accretion rights) in “Tratado de los conflictos societarios” (Company conflicts treaty), Dir. Dr. Diego Duprat. To be published (August 2013).

 

“El derecho de preferencia y de acrecer. Necesaria judiciabilidad de las decisiones asamblearias que lo afectan, como condición previa para facilitar la efectiva superación convencional o estatutaria de sus aspectos conflictivos” (Preemptive and accretion rights. Necessary judiciability of shareholders’ meetings’ resolutions affecting them as a previous condition to facilitate the effective conventional or statutory resolution of their conflictive aspects) Paper 1, XII Argentine Congress on Company Law and VIII Ibero-American Congress of Company and Business Law, Buenos Aires, UADE, Ed. La Ley.

 

El derecho de preferencia y de acrecer. Necesaria admisibilidad de la suspensión cautelar de las decisiones asamblearias que lo afectan, como condición previa para facilitar la efectiva superación convencional o estatutaria de sus aspectos conflictivos” (Preemptive and accretion rights. Necessary admissibility of precautionary suspension of shareholders’ meetings’ resolutions affecting them as a previous condition to facilitate the effective conventional or statutory resolution of their conflictive aspects) Paper 2, XII Argentine Congress on Company Law and VIII Ibero-American Congress of Company and Business Law, Buenos Aires, UADE, Ed. La Ley.

 

“El derecho de preferencia y de acrecer. Superación por vía contractual de dudosas interpretaciones legales que impidan la dilucidación preventiva de sus aspectos conflictivos” (Preemptive and accretion rights. Contractual resolution of uncertain legal interpretations hindering preventive clarification of their conflictive aspects), Papers 3 and 4, XII Argentine Congress of Company Law and VIII Ibero-American Congress of Company and Business Law, Buenos Aires, UADE, Ed. La Ley.

 

Member: Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Public Bar Association, Bar Association of La Plata (Province of Buenos Aires), Argentine Commercial Law Association, Asociación Argentina de Estudios de la Insolvencia (Argentine Association of Insolvency Studies), Asociación Argentina de Derecho de las Telecomunicaciones (Argentine Telecommunications Law Association), Board of Directors. Procedural Law Commission of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires, Secretary, 1988. Commercial Law Institute of the Argentine Notarial University. Argentine Association of Insolvency Studies. Argentine Telecommunications Law Association, Board of Directors. Mediation and Arbitration Business Center, Arbitrator.

Non-profit Associations: Member of the Board of Directors of the University Club of Buenos Aires and former Counsel Director of the Buenos Aires Rugby Union (URBA).

Languages: English and French.