Dra Mariana Lartigau > 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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Dra Mariana Lartigau
Work Department
Corporate Law, Banking Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Project Financing and Intellectual Property
Position
Mariana Lartigau is a Senior Associate in the Montevideo office. She is a member of the Corporate group.
Career
Mariana´s main focus is on Corporate Law, Banking Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Project Financing and Intellectual Property.
Experience
- Santander Group: Advises Banco Santander Uruguay on the bank´s daily businesses, with special focus on banking, financing, regulatory, commercial, contractual and project finance matters. She also advises other local entities of the Group, whose business activities are regulated by the Central Bank on regulatory matters, such as Paganza (electronic money issuer), New Age Data (administrator of POS’ net), Ecolicua (digital insurance broker) and Getnet (acquiring entity).
- Zurich Santander Seguros: Advises on the company’s daily businesses, with special focus on insurance, regulatory, commercial, contractual, corporate and corporate governance matters.
- Redpagos: advises the company as a money transfer entity, electronic money issuer and payment services provider regulated by the Central Bank of Uruguay on its regulatory, contractual and corporate matters. Advised to the sellers on the process of selling the company’s shares to the Prosegur Group, including the negotiation of the share purchase agreement, assisting during the fulfillment of the conditions precedent (among others, the required of legal and regulatory authorizations) and on the closing of the transaction. She further advised the company in connection with the spin off of its electronic money issuance business.
- Subordinated loan: advised a German bank) in granting a subordinated loan to a local bank in accordance with the regulations of the Central Bank relating to tier 2 capital.
- Financing reestructure: advised on the assignment by Santander Madrid to Santander Uruguay of all its rights and obligations (including local guarantees) under a USD82,6 MM financing granted to Atlantica Yield, as beneficial owner of a 50MW windfarm located in Uruguay.
- Paganza: Advised on the closing of the purchase of shares of Paganza, a well-known fintech and licensed to operate as an electronic money issuer, by Retop S.A., a Uruguayan company of Santander Group. She further advised on the corporate restructure pursuant to which Paganza’s shares were sold to Superdigital, a Spanish company of Santander Group, who owns and develops online platforms in several Latin American countries, providing financial products and services under a “banking as a service” business model.
- Fenicio: advised Odaner S.A., a top ranked telecommunication company, part of Isbel Group, in the acquisition of 20% of the shares of Fencio, a leading e-commerce platform which provides e-commerce services to retail companies.
- Credileads: advised Santander Group in the acquisition of 100% of the share interest in Credileads, a digital marketing company, focus on advertising financing offers.
- Ecolicua: Advised on the acquisition by Grupo Santander of an online car insurance comparison and purchase platform, including leading the due diligence process and development of the legal analysis (with focus on corporate and contractual areas), negotiation of the share purchase agreement, advising during the fulfillment of the conditions precedent (including the required legal authorizations) and on the closing of the transaction.
Languages
Spanish and English
Education
- New York University, School of Law, 2017, Masters of Law (LLM)
- University of the Republic (Uruguay), 2012, Attorney at Law
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 > Corporate and M&A
(Rising stars)The practice group at Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga is regularly instructed by clients from the agribusiness, tech, finance and food and drink sectors for its counsel on M&A transactions, regulatory matters and corporate governance. Founding partner Virginia Brause
co-heads the team and advises the practice’s major international clients, including PepsiCo, McDonald’s and Credit Agricole; leading alongside her, Nicolás Herrera Alonso assists local and multinationals companies with financial, banking and corporate operations. Fernando Jiménez de Aréchaga‘s expertise lies in advising buyers and sellers on M&A transactions in the infrastructure and renewables sectors. At senior associate level, Mariana Lartigau leads due diligence for M&A transactions and project finance, and Alfredo Arocena specialises in project financing, agribusiness, and energy. Jimena González supports on a host of corporate governance matters.
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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Rising stars Uruguay > Corporate and M&A
- Banking and finance Uruguay
- Corporate and M&A Uruguay
- Intellectual property Uruguay