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Deloitte Legal - Legal y Fiscal S.A. Offices

Deloitte Legal - Legal y Fiscal S.A.
Della Paolera 261, 17th Floor
City of Buenos Aires
C1001ADA
Argentina
Visit website 54 11 4320 2700 54 11 4320 4066

Profiles

Deloitte Legal - Legal y Fiscal S.A. > The Legal 500 Rankings

Argentina > Labour and employment Tier 4

Deloitte Legal - Legal y Fiscal S.A.’s labour and employment practice is strongly focused on corporate and tax-related labour work, advising clients across a range of sectors and industries on employment law, compensation, workforce restructurings and labour litigation. Practice head Walter Mañko, previously at Marval O’Farrell Mairal, is the key contact.

Practice head(s):

Walter Mañko

Testimonials

‘They are solid and provide valuable support.’

‘Deloitte is organised and well segmented according to the needs of clients.’

Key clients

Educaedu

Medallia

Distribuidora Cummins

Facebook Argentina

Schlumberger Argentina

Roche Diabetes Care Argentina

Japan Bank for International Cooperation

UBS BB Argentina

Air Liquide Argentina

Philips Argentina

Work highlights

  • Provided preventative advice to Educaedu to avoid exposure to labour contingencies and sanctions by tax authorities.
  • Advised Medallia on implementation of benefits for certain employees registered on the payroll of the company’s Argentine entity.
  • Assisted Distribuidora Cummins achieve full compliance with labour and social security regulations.

Argentina > Tax Tier 4

Deloitte Legal - Legal y Fiscal S.A. works closely with Deloitte’s tax accounting arm to support local and international clients on tax planning, compliance and transfer pricing matters. The team is best known, however, for its specialist expertise in tax disputes, litigating in every local and federal jurisdiction. Inflation adjustment and turnover tax disputes have been particularly busy areas. Cynthia Calligaro leads the practice.

Practice head(s):

Cynthia Calligaro

Key clients

Sony Argentina

Soluciones Multimedia

MSD Argentina

PPG Industries Argentina

Philips Argentina

Gador

Schneider Electric Systems Argentina

Schneider Electric Argentina

Fábrica Austral de Productos Eléctricos

BFOOT

Work highlights

  • Advised PPG Industries on inflation adjustment and reimbursement matters.
  • Advised Schneider Electric Systems Argentina on a lawsuit related to turnover tax.
  • Assisted Sony Argentina with a tax assessment regarding turnover tax.

Argentina > Corporate and M&A

Deloitte Legal - Legal y Fiscal S.A.’s provides a broad range of services, including transactional work and day-to-day corporate support, for clients in a variety of sectors. Eduardo Bonis leads the team, with corporate all-rounder Cynthia Calligaro the other key name.

Deloitte Legal - Legal y Fiscal S.A. > Firm Profile

Skilled and experienced Deloitte Legal* professionals work together with other Deloitte professionals in tax, consulting, risk- and financial advisory to guide their clients through a project in a coordinated way around the world. Deloitte Legal, present in over 84 countries, is able to provide holistic guidance around strategic business decisions as well as offer support services that can increase efficiency and reduce the cost of some routine legal activities. As part of the global Deloitte professional services network, Deloitte Legal helps you in delivering multinational legal solutions that are consistent, technology-enabled, tailored, and sensitized.

With 23 legal professionals in Argentina, Deloitte Legal* offers competent yet pragmatic advice in many fields of national and international business law. Our professionals provide tailored solutions for demanding projects and complex domestic and international transactions. And we offer even more: Multidisciplinary advice incorporating tax, consulting, risk- and financial advisory.

Whether family-owned smaller and medium-sized companies, listed stock corporations or international groups of companies—with our service lines commercial, corporate/M&A, employment law and benefits, and legal management consulting we cover those fields of business law that are important for our clients.

Collecting and combining multidisciplinary expertise in our industry groups Financial Services, Energy, Resources and Industrials, Consumer, TMT, and LSHC enables us to render interdisciplinary advice which anticipates industry- or sector-specific trends and developments. And thereby help our clients to face the challenges of an ever-changing regulatory and economic environment.

We understand legal advice not as an isolated component, but as a contribution to a comprehensive solution of the issues that our clients face. Working together with our Deloitte colleagues we can help our clients in taking informed decisions in the context of legal as well as other business considerations.

Areas of practice
Commercial law solutions: Companies are facing an increasing number of business challenges globally including more rigorous regulations and enforcement by local authorities in the countries where they operate. As experienced advisers with a practical focus Deloitte Legal* can help clients meet these challenges and develop commercial solutions. Our experience and expertise allow us to provide businesses facing complex legal regulations and challenges with personalized, tailor-made services. Services include but are not limited to:

  • Commercial advisory
  • IP for BEPS: transfer pricing of intangibles
  • Data protection
  • Full-scale pre-insolvency solutions
  • Commercial contracts
  • Transfer pricing documentation
  • Dispute resolution (including tax litigation)

Corporate and mergers and acquisitions solutions: Deloitte Legal* provides a full range of corporate law services from complex advisory services related to major business life events (including advising in restructuring and mergers and acquisitions processes) through to general secretarial services. Services, include but are not limited to:

  • M&A transactions
  • Integrated due diligence
  • Corporate law, corporate governance
  • Corporate reorganizations
  • Shareholders agreement and joint ventures
  • Post-merger integration
  • Legal and tax services to startups

Employment law and benefits solutions: Turbulent economic times require companies to be agile and flexible in their staffing to remain competitive. Complex polices, frequent legislative changes and global operations make managing employee relations and compliance with employment law challenging for businesses. Deloitte Legal* provides businesses with the advice they need to make informed decisions and comply with a multitude of regulatory and procedural requirements. Services include but are not limited to:

  • Compensation and benefits
  • Individual employment law
  • International employment remodeling
  • Human cloud
  • Legal mobility services
  • Social security

Legal Management Consulting (LMC): It is a new approach and a new discipline, developed by lawyers in corporation with other relevant experts. With this collection of models, frameworks, and systems, Deloitte Legal* helps in-house lawyers run their departments more efficiently and meet the needs of their business more comprehensively. Services include but are not limited to:

  • Legal department strategy and operations consulting
  • Legal technology consulting
  • Multinational corporate entity management
  • Multinational business integrity and legal risk management

* “Deloitte Legal” means the legal practices of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited member firm affiliates that provide legal services. For legal and regulatory reasons, not all member firms provide legal services.

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
Commercial Law Cynthia Calligaro
Corporate Law/M&A Cynthia Calligaro
Legal Management Consulting Cynthia Calligaro
Employment Law & Benefits Leticia Lenisa

Staff Figures

at this office : 22
in this country : 23
Number of legal professionals worldwide : 2,500+

Languages

English
Spanish

Memberships

Deloitte Legal worldwide network

Deloitte Legal - Legal y Fiscal S.A. > Firm Profile

Deloitte Legal is an international legal service provider, that offers legal services in over 75 countries with more than 1,700 professionals. As part of a multidisciplinary service firm, we aim to design and implement integrated solutions for our clients.

Our team of committed lawyers, our cross-border capabilities and our technology driven solutions make us particularly well equipped to help our clients with legal challenges that require deep local understanding of regulations and business culture or are complex due to their scale and international dimensions.

Whether family-owned smaller and medium-sized companies, listed stock corporations or international groups of companies—with our service lines commercial, corporate/M&A, employment law and benefits, and legal management consulting, we cover those fields of business law that are important for our clients.

Collecting and combining multidisciplinary expertise in our industry groups financial services, energy, resources and industrials, consumer, TMT, and LSHC enables us to render interdisciplinary advice which anticipates industry- or sector-specific trends and developments. And thereby help our clients to face the challenges of an ever-changing regulatory and economic environment.

We understand legal advice not as an isolated component, but as a contribution to a comprehensive solution of the issues that our clients face. Working together with our Deloitte colleagues we can help our clients in taking informed decisions in the context of legal as well as other business considerations.

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
Legal Cynthia Calligaro ccalligaro@deloitte.com 54 11 4320 2700
Legal María Inés Del Gener mdelgener@deloitte.com 54 11 4320 2700

Staff Figures

Commercial Law : 2
Corporate & M&A : 5
Tax Controversy : 8
Legal Management Consulting : 2
COMEX & Customs : 2
Employment & Benefits : 4

Deloitte Legal - Legal y Fiscal S.A. > Firm Profile

Krehić & Partners in cooperation with Deloitte Legal* is a leading corporate, commercial and competition legal practice in Croatia, with a breadth of expertise in all corporate transactions and corporate law matters across various highly regulated industries.

Krehić & Partners in cooperation with Deloitte Legal is a leading corporate, commercial and competition legal practice in Croatia. All of our lawyers are leading M&A, corporate and competition EU-level experts from the most prominent Croatian law firms and largest companies. We represent our clients in major local/cross-border strategic mergers and group restructurings, local and cross-border acquisitions and dispositions, complex carve-out transactions, joint ventures, public-private partnerships and collaborative alliances structures. In addition, we assist our clients with sensitive corporate governance and compliance issues, structuring ESOP transactions, bond issuance and internal risk-management and employment-restructuring matters. Resulting from the legal and business savvy of our partners, we can proudly emphasize that we have become sought after for our niche specializations, including telecommunications & media, ICT, pharmaceutical and energy.

Although truly grounded in Croatia, Krehić & Partners through Deloitte Legal network, actively connects actives Adria region, Europe and beyond, a real benefit for clients operating in these dynamic and growing markets.

We address your challenges with comprehensive thinking, powered by experience and insights drawn from diverse business disciplines, industries, and global perspectives. We bring together legal advice, strategy, and technology to develop innovative solutions, create value for you and your business, and transform the way in which legal services are delivered and consumed.

Operating in approximately 80 countries, Deloitte Legal practitioners work closely across borders, providing a strategic perspective to help companies meet local responsibilities and thrive in the global marketplace. With access to industry specialists and an unparalleled range of professional services, we also employ technology to pioneer innovative solutions to the most complex business problems.

Deloitte Legal pairs strategy with technology to aggregate, organize, and analyze complex data from multiple sources, providing the insight to enhance clients’ decision-making process. Deloitte has reshaped many functions with its transformative thinking, which Deloitte Legal applies to reshape the legal department. We focus on people, process, and technology to help legal departments free up time for what matters.

Deloitte Legal doesn’t just work for clients, but with clients to develop the right solutions for their business. Understanding the client’s needs and putting a business lens on legal problems enables us to help the General Counsel become a business partner.

* “Deloitte Legal” means the legal practices of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited member firm affiliates that provide legal services. For legal and regulatory reasons, not all member firms provide legal services.

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
Corporate/M&A Tarja Krehic tkrehic@kip-legal.hr +385 98 938 92 19
Corporate/M&A Ivan Zornada izornada@kip-legal.hr +385 91 68 000 91
Banking & Finance Tarja Krehic tkrehic@kip-legal.hr +385 98 938 92 19
Banking & Finance Ozren Kobsa okobsa@kip-legal.hr + 385 99 450 76 69

Staff Figures

Worldwide : 2500+
In this country : 9

Languages

English
Croatian

Memberships

Deloitte Legal*

Interviews

Cynthia Calligaro, Partner – S-Latam Legal Leader Marketplace Cono Sur

S-Latam Legal Leader of the Marketplace Cono Sur Cynthia Calligaro explains how the firm is adapting to client´s changing needs

What do you see as the main points that differentiate Deloitte Legal from your competitors?

We pride ourselves on our continued commitment to our clients. We analyze our clients’ needs to offer pragmatic solutions oriented to improve heir businesses. We care as much about our clients’ long term success as we do about the short-term outcome of a project.

Our practice is both service and industry aligned, with teams specializing in Corporate and M&A, Commercial; Law, Employment & Benefits, Foreign Trade & Customs and Tax Controversy.

For instance in this peculiar 2020 we are helping clients to move rapidly into the recovery phase of the COVID-19 crisis. We shared with them legal thought leadership pieces and several webinars. These have been useful to assist them through new market realities as: laws relating to state aid and other government support; impact on contracts (dispute resolution, force majeure & MAC clauses); safe returning to the workplace and other employee engagement strategies to promote workplace engagement; how to transform their legal operating model for the “new normal”, etc.

A usual answer to this question would be that “we understand our client and his/her needs and listen very carefully” but who doesn´t? Very often, it is much better to listen than to speak and I think this is what any service provider should do and usually does. The difference is that when we as Deloitte do this we can bring a comprehensive offering to our clients as we connect them with other Deloitte´s specialist in M&A, Financial Advisory, Tax, Risk Advisory, and Consulting -among others– giving a holistic approach to our legal advice. This is what allows us to provide our clients the added value they are looking for in this new reality.

Which practices do you see growing in the next 12 months? What are the drivers behind that?

Probably this would be digital law and capital markets. The new global scenario shows technology is driving a fast changing revolution all around the globe. This means that even the most traditional businesses (from the smallest to the largest companies) will need to do a catch up to adjust their business to new technology, marketing channels, distribution problems, expansion issues from a legal and financial perspective. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis, getting financing will be a big challenge so capital markets may appear as an alternative together with cryptocurrency.

To have advisors that fully understand how to assist them and be a driver and enabler of new solutions will be a key component in the evolution of businesses.

What’s the main change you’ve made in the firm that will benefit clients?

Last year Deloitte´s offices from sixteen countries from Mexico to Argentina integrated themselves to be able to provide services in a coordinated way around Latin America. This will allow our clients to have a seamless service as well as more competitive fee quotations.

Is technology changing the way you interact with your clients, and the services you can provide them?

Indeed. Technology is not only changing our clients’ needs but also ours. Clients want to have legal providers that speak the same language. To achieve that we were obliged to design a plan to understand our clients’ challenges and to see how we could offer more efficient and less time-consuming solutions. It is a fact that COVID-19 crisis put all of us to get creative. For example, we are working closely to our clients helping them to implement remote shareholders´ meetings, using worldwide platforms to check the corporate compliance status of all their entities in different countries, helping them to enhance their legal operating model, etc.

Can you give us a practical example of how you have helped a client to add value to their business?

A practical example I could quote could be one that took place this last year when we detected that a client was registering an extremely high provision for different types of judicial cases. After running several processes and checking their legal process, we were able to help them to reorganize the task flow between different areas of the company including the administration of judicial cases. They were duplicating the provision because of a poor litigation management. It is not that the provision they were considering was wrong. Certain delays and miscommunication between internal departments of the company (e.g., legal, accounting and the payment sector) caused interests and fines that wouldn´t have been due is they had recorded the ruling timely and payed the amount arising from those rulings in time.

Are clients looking for stability and strategic direction from their law firms – where do you see the firm in three years’ time?

The market has and is becoming more competitive. Nevertheless, I think it is not that much stability and strategic direction what they are expecting from their law firms but consistency and a seamless legal service. In three-years´ time, Deloitte Legal will provide not only the commonly known legal practice areas but will become a key player when it comes to legal technology.



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