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DLA Piper Argentina
Av. Eduardo Madero 900
16th Floor
Buenos Aires C1106ACV
Argentina

Work Department

Banking & Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Services; Restructuring

Position

Partner

Career

Justo Segura advises public and private sector clients, including sovereign and sub-sovereign entities, corporations, banks and financial organizations in capital markets, corporate finance, debt restructuring, liability management transactions and general law matters. He has also been involved in local and international litigation matters, including pro bono work.

He was an international lawyer in a large New York law firm in 2005 and 2006, where he was a member of the Latin America practice group and worked on capital markets matters of private and public sector clients, including sovereign bonds and related litigation.

Languages

English; Spanish

Memberships

Justo is a member of the American Bar Association, Section of International Law, where he was co-chair of the Buenos Aires City Chapter several years.He is also a member of the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association and the Province of Buenos Aires Bar Association.He was member of the Organizing Committee of the II and III Argentine Congress on Capital Markets organized by UCEMA University (2010 and 2013) and participated in the IV Argentine Congress on Capital Markets (2017).

Education

  • LL.M., University of Michigan Law School 2005
    Grotius Scholar
  • Law degree, University of Buenos Aires School of Law 2001
    Diploma de Honor
    Sub editor-in-chief, Lecciones y Ensayos, UBA’s law journal

Lawyer Rankings

Argentina > Banking and finance

DLA Piper Argentina handles complex, cross-border banking and finance matters and has built up extensive experience in large, high-profile corporate, sovereign and sub-sovereign debt restructurings, working with debtors and creditors. The ‘flexible’ and ‘attentive’ team also handles capital markets work, where it leverages the network of its parent firm to support clients on exchange offers and new debt issuance domestically and abroad. The firm’s country manager Marcelo Etchebarne leads the practice and has extensive experience working with sovereign, sub-sovereign and corporate clients on debt and equity offerings. Additional senior level support comes from Guillermo Cabanellas, who has been counselling banks and corporations for more than 30 years; structured finance and financial trust expert Alejandro Noblia and capital markets-focused Justo Segura. Of counsel Nicolas Teijeiro provides high level advice on sovereign and sub-sovereign matters, with the firm’s second line fronted by associates Juan Rosatto, Daiana SukFederico Vieyra and Marcelo Rá.