Investment Planning Law Firm of the Year in Argentina ESTUDIO BUNGE - Bunge Smith & Luchía Puig Abogados Diego César Bunge Partner Tel: +5411.5281.6000 dcbunge@bunge.com.ar www.estudiobunge.com ESTUDIO BUNGE - Bunge Smith & Luchía Puig Abogados has provided legal advice for more than 50 years to prestigious domestic and international leading companies, operating in Argentina and abroad, as well as to individuals and foreign governments. Since the day ESTUDIO BUNGE originally affiliated with the international law firm Steel, Hector & Davis associated to Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP, it has combined its local and international experience with a multinational organisation present in 35 cities with major legal activity in United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia to provide its clients with highly qualified and globally integrated legal services in terms of performance and organisational operation. Argentina Office ESTUDIO BUNGE - Bunge Smith & Luchía Puig Abogados was founded in 1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina as an international oriented law firm. In 2002, with the affiliation to the renowned law firm Steel Hector & Davis LLP based in Miami, ESTUDIO BUNGE paved the way to Latin America. In 2005, ESTUDIO BUNGE’s participation in the global market was consolidated with the
combination of efforts between Steel, Hector & Davis LLP and Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP. From the beginning, ESTUDIO BUNGE - Bunge Smith & Luchía Puig Abogados has represented its clients in almost every sector of the Argentine economy, including banking, insurance, aviation, telecommunications, broadcasting, information technology, intellectual property, real estate development and finance, defence & government contracts, mining, energy, agribusiness, chemical, petrochemical, the pharmaceutical industry, tourism and the education sector, among others. ESTUDIO BUNGE’s attorneys are highly proficient to meet present-day legal demands arising from an evolving global economy, not only from Argentina, but also from around the world, for which they have completed postgraduate legal education in universities of Argentina and United States of America. General Corporate & Commercial Law Matters As a highly transactional organisation, ESTUDIO BUNGE has an extensive corporate practice which ranges from advising its clients on corporate and commercial law issues, to planning, structuring and drafting
international by-laws and vehicles which turn out being convenient to achieve competitive performance at a global level. The firm has an extensive experience in negotiating, drafting and structuring complex franchises, as well as experience in agency, representation and concession agreements. In the field of Mergers & Acquisitions, the firm has represented various important groups in the purchase or sale of important domestic concerns. Diego César Bunge Diego César Bunge has wide experience in the legal field of international transactions, particularly in the areas related to investment structures planning and protection of investments. He has actively participated in complex legal issues in the fields of banking and finance, construction, real property, telecommunications, broadcasting and entertainment. Furthermore, he has actively participated in domestic and international complex litigation and arbitration cases, as attorney of one party and as expert witness.
Real Estate Transactions Law Firm of the Year in Brazil Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados Rossana Fernandes Duarte Partner, Real Estate Tel: +55 11 3147-2845 rossana@mattosfilho.com.br www.mattosfilho.com.br Mattos Filho is widely recognised as one of the best law firms in Brazil. It has won a vast number of international awards in the last years, such as “Brazilian Law Firm of the Year” (LatinFinance), “National Law Firm of the Year for Brazil” (IFLR) and “Best Law Firm in Brazil” (Chambers & Partners). The firm is also ranked first by Latin Lawyer among all law firms in Latin America by the survey “Who Represents Latin American 100 Biggest Companies?” Mattos Filho Real Estate Practice Group is well-rounded in all fields of Real Estate, and is especially sensitive to the range of different market opportunities for investments, having the necessary tools to offer cutting-edge and creative solutions to clients with regard to legal and regulatory restrictions applicable to real estate. Moreover, the group is praised for being able to provide an interdisciplinary approach to real estate transactions, often taking into consideration environmental, accounting, tax, reputation and other impacts on clients’ businesses while counselling investors, developers, lenders and national and international corporate clients on complex
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real estate deals involving urban and rural properties in a variety of locations in Brazil. Over the years, partner Rossana Fernandes Duarte has represented real estate industry clients, including real estate investment funds and joint ventures, national and regional developers of retail, office and multifamily projects, institutional investors and investment management institutions in a wide range of real estate industry-focused transactions. She has extensive experience advising real estate clients in acquiring, financing, developing and selling all types of real estate assets. Her expertise encompasses niche areas such as timber acquisition, agribusiness, hospitality, complex real estate finance including shopping centers, industrial warehouses, office buildings, allotment and condominium. Most recently, she has been the lead real estate attorney in some of the largest transactions involving multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, dispositions and recapitalisations. She has been an officer of the Real Estate Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and currently serves as co-chair.
Ms Fernandes Duarte noted: “Mattos Filho allocates the best available resources to meet clients’ specific demands, working in multidisciplinary teams. The Real Estate team provides services to a great diversity of national and foreign clients from a varied range of industry practice areas. In the hospital sector, we have assisted the Carlyle Group with Rede D’Or São Luiz S.A., the largest private hospital operator in Brazil, to finance expansion projects, including new acquisitions, the construction of new hospitals and the expansion of existing facilities. Meanwhile, in the developers’ sector, the most relevant deal in our opinion was sale of Cyrela’s 50% stake in CCP Logistica Empreendimentos Imobiliarios, which holds 50% of Portfolio of Logistic Warehouses Cajamar III, to the US-based company Prologis. This transaction took place after the acquisition by Cyrela of a 50% stake held by CPPIB – Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in the portfolio.”