Maite Gaynicotche > Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga > Montevideo, Uruguay > Lawyer Profile
Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga Offices
EDIFICIO JIMÉNEZ DE ARÉCHAGA
ZABALA 1504
11000 MONTEVIDEO
Uruguay
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Maite Gaynicotche
Work Department
Banking, Corporate and Data Privacy & Cybersecurity and Technology practice groups
Position
Maite Gaynicotche is an Associate in the Montevideo office. She actively participates in the Banking, Corporate and Data Privacy & Cybersecurity and Technology practice groups, providing assistance on a daily basis to local and international clients operating in Uruguay on banking and corporate law matters, as well as privacy and technology issues. She has also advised Banco Santander in numerous litigation processes regarding bankruptcy and asset recovery.
Career
Experience
- Banco Santander:Assessment on a permanent basis on banking, financing, regulatory, commercial and contractual issues, as well as restructuring, bankruptcy and asset recovery matters. In litigation, she has represented Banco Santander in major insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, and asset recovery. Likewise, she participated in the due diligence processes of Grupo Santander for the acquisition of New Age Data, a Uruguayan company focused on the administration of payment terminals and the provision of payment solutions and services to the retail sector, with a strong presence in all departments of Uruguay; and Ecolicuá, an online car insurance comparison tool and purchase platform.
- Creditel and Crédito de la Casa: Daily assessment on contractual, regulatory and commercial matters to Banco Santander’s retail financial services companies.
- Paganza: Daily advice to Santander Group’s Electronic Money Issuing Institution (IEDE) on regulatory, commercial and contractual matters.
- Zurich Santander Seguros:Daily assessment on insurance, regulatory, commercial and contractual issues.
- FirstCaribbean International Bank:Provided advice as local counsel to FirstCaribbean International Bank, CaixaBank and Banco de Sabadell (Miami Branch) in their capacity as lenders in a secured term loan facility to Seawind Key Investments (and others). The purpose of the refinancing was the repayment of the facility obtained from the Inter-American Development Bank and FirstCaribbean International Bank for the construction of Breathless and Secrets Hotels in Jamaica.
- Google Inc.: Advice in relation to local regulatory aspects, including regulations on consumer protection, data protection, protection of minors, media content and advertising, among others, in relation to the different projects and services that the company plans to launch in the country. In litigation, she participated in the ongoing leading case for the alleged right to be forgotten.
- TikTok: Advice in relation to local regulatory aspects, including regulations on consumer protection, data protection, protection of minors, media content and advertising, among others, in relation to the different projects and services that the company plans to launch in the country.
- Mondelez Uruguay: Advice on Privacy and Data Protection matters.
- Ericsson Uruguay: Advice on Privacy and Data Protection matters.
- Red Pagos:Assessment on the company’s data privacy infrastructure, policies, procedures and activities in the context of the company’s sale of shares to Prosegur Group.
- Viscofan: Assessment on contractual issues.
Languages
Spanish and English
Memberships
- Member, Uruguayan Bar Association
- Member, Iberoamerican Private Law Association
Education
Catholic University of Uruguay, 2021, Law School, Master’s Degree in Law with focus in Contractual Law
Catholic University of Uruguay, 2020, Law School, Contractual Law Specialist
University of Montevideo (Uruguay), 2020, Law School, Course on Data Protection applied to Banking and Taxation
University of Montevideo (Uruguay), 2020, Law School, Course on Fintech and Digital Banking
University of the Republic (Uruguay), 2017, Attorney at Law
University of Montevideo (Uruguay),
Postgraduate Degree on Law and Digital Transformation, 2021-2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Uruguay > Banking and finance
Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga‘s banking and finance department has a strong track record in the Uruguayan market, having been the adviser of choice for Banco Santander for over thirty years. Although the firm advises clients from a wide range of sectors, including retail and fintech, it has notably consolidated its experience in project financing transactions in recent years: it advised Grupo Vía Central on the Ferrocarril Central project, a public-private partnership railway project for which $1.1b has been raised. The practice is co-led by Nicolás Herrera Alonso, who assists local and international financial entities with structured and project financing and provides consultancy services to local and multinational companies; Mariela Ruanova, specialist in banking law with a focus on innovation and technology; and Fernando Jiménez de Aréchaga Jr, a project financings expert who has worked on some of Uruguay’s most notable PPP projects in recent years. Senior associates Mariana Lartigau, Alfredo Arocena, Carolina Bianchi and Maite Gaynicotche provide valued support to the practice group.
Uruguay > Intellectual property
The practice at Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga specialises in IP infringement claims, due diligence and IP-related litigation and arbitration. The group has experience advising clients in the tech sector. Héctor Viana, whose background is in corporate real estate and finance law, handles IP issues related to clients he regularly manages, among them Amazon, Volkswagen and Facebook. At senior associate level, Mariana Lartigau has experience with trade marks and copyright issues, and also supports with IP-related due diligence. Maite Gaynicotche focuses on data protection and cybersecurity matters.