Mr Daniel Levi > Beccar Varela > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

Beccar Varela Offices

Beccar Varela
EDIFICIO REPÚBLICA, TUCUMÁN 1, 3RD FLOOR
C1049AAA CIUDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BUENOS AIRES
Argentina
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Mr Daniel Levi

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+54 11 4379 6839 dlevi@beccarvarela.com View profile

Work Department

Banking and Finance, Fintech

Position

Daniel Levi is a partner at Beccar Varela, where he co-heads the firm’s Fintech department.

Career

Daniel joined Beccar Varela in 2004. His practice areas include corporate law, with a particular focus on corporate finance, banking law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and commercial contracts.

Daniel has extensive experience advising on local and cross-border financial transactions, including loan facilities, syndicated loans, securitizations, project financings, and distressed acquisitions, acting either on the financial institutions’ or on the borrowers’ side.

He also co-leads the firm’s Fintech Department, assisting foreign and local initiatives in all the verticals of business, with special expertise in regulatory aspects. His comprehensive approach allows him to give advice in all the stages of business, from structuring, landing, and capital raising, as well as in daily corporate and regulatory advice. He is strongly committed to projects that generate a positive impact.

Languages

He speaks Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

Memberships

He is a member of the Buenos Aires Bar Association and of the International Bar Association. He also actively participates in the Argentine-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CAMBRAS).

Education

Daniel obtained his Law degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2006) and a Masters’s in Finance from the Universidad del CEMA (2011, with distinction). He also has post-graduate studies in Negotiation at Harvard Law School (USA, 2014), in Valuation of Financial Institutions at APIMEC, in Private Equity & Venture Capital at INSPER Institute (Brazil, 2016), in Innovative Banking & Fintech at Imperial College Business School (UK, 2018) and in Digital Banking at Universidad Di Tella (2018).

Daniel worked as a foreign associate at Pinheiro Neto Advogados (São Paulo, Brazil, 2015-2016) in their M&A and Banking & Fintech departments. This experience allowed him, as a co-founder and a co-leader of our Brazil Desk, to be a facilitator for Brazilian investors and Brazilian-based projects coming to Argentina, and for local entrepreneurs interested in doing business in the neighboring country.

Between 2009 and 2015, Daniel was a professor in Contracts and Negotiation at the Universidad de Palermo (Argentina).

Lawyer Rankings

Argentina > Banking and finance

(Next Generation Partners)

Daniel Levi – Beccar Varela

The Beccar Varela banking and finance team is known for its transactional capability, with experience in cross-border financing and refinancing deals with complex underlying collateral structures, as well as corporate, project and asset financings. Advising on the foreign exchange implications for bank lending is another busy area, with the practice also at the forefront of regulatory matters in the fintech space, and active in the fast-growing sustainability-linked loan and bond markets. Pablo Torretta, Luciana Denegri, Daniel Levi and Maximiliano Nicolás D’Auro jointly-lead the practice, which also continues to draw on the vast experience of veteran M&A and banking partner Roberto Fortunati. Torretta brings extensive forex, restructuring and international financing experience to the table, with Denegri an influential figure in the development of Argentina’s sustainable finance ecosystem. D’Auro, who is also prominent in the firm’s compliance practice, advises banks on financing, refinancing and regulation; while Daniel Levi, who leads the firm’s fintech group, played a leading role in Ualá’s pioneering purchase of Wilobank, the first acquisition of a bank by a fintech in Argentina. The practice strengthened its senior ranks in 2022 with the partner promotions of refinancing and restructuring expert Felipe Videla and Lucía Degano, the latter of whom heads operations in the firm’s regional office in the free trade zone in Uruguay. At associate level, seniors María Victoria Pavani (capital markets); and Gonzalo Ochoa (banking/foreign exchange regulation) are the key contacts.

Argentina > Fintech

(Next Generation Partners)

Daniel Levi – Beccar Varela

Beccar Varela has invested in developing a truly dedicated fintech offering for a number of years and is called on by banking and non-banking players in the space for regulatory, structuring, investment, financing and public relations advice. The team handles all the key fintech verticals, including challenger banks, e-wallets, payments, open banking, cryptoassets, crowdfunding and insurtech. Banking and regulatory-focused partner Daniel Levi co-leads the team alongside corporate and M&A partner María Shakespear and banking and finance expert Pablo Torretta.

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