Life sciences and healthcare
José María Allonca
José María Allonca delivers strategic cross-border counsel, grounded in decades of experience and a comprehensive command of international corporate and tax law. His guidance consistently advances legal solutions for clients throughout Latin America and beyond. José María recently joined O’Farrell as a Consulting Partner. He specializes in cross-border transactions, corporate structuring, international tax planning, and complex regulatory matters affecting both local and multinational clients. His practice focuses on: – Corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and international partnership structuring. – Regulatory compliance, particularly Life Sciences, TMT, Agribusiness, and related industrial sectors. – Tax and business planning for multinational entities entering or operating within Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and other Latin American jurisdictions. – Strategic advisory on market entry, business development, and dispute resolution in cross-border contexts.
Jorge Muratorio
Jorge Muratorio, is the Partner in charge of Public Law and Economic Regulation Department at O´Farrell.
His practice focuses on constitutional, administrative and environmental law, urban planning regulations, consumer protection law and antitrust.
Agustín Siboldi
Agustín Siboldi, Partner of the Public Law and Economic Regulation Area, specializes in Antitrust, Energy and Natural Resources, and Telecommunications. His practice focuses on the following areas in relation to economic regulation: antitrust, including economic concentrations and investigations in anticompetitive practices; telecommunications; exploration, concession, exploitation and transport of hydrocarbons; generation, transmission, distribution and commercialization of electricity; transport, distribution and commercialization of gas; commercialization of medicines; among other heavily regulated industries.
Rebeca Fernández
Rebeca is an Associate in the Public Law and Economic Regulation Area. She joined the firm in 2016.
Agustina Barberis
Agustina Barberis focuses her practice on corporate law. Her professional career combines experience in law firms and as an in-house lawyer for international companies in the technology, industrial, financial, and humanitarian sectors, both in Argentina and France. Her practice focuses on assisting clients, especially foreign clients, in the development and management of their operations in Argentina. Her experience includes advising on contractual matters, providing legal support in day-to-day commercial management and adapting internal corporate policies and guidelines to local regulations, as well as creating and implementing compliance programs and anti-corruption policies.
Team Services
Our life sciences and healthcare practice is best known for guiding international and regional laboratories, health‑tech start‑ups and diagnostics companies through complex cross‑border regulatory, corporate and M&A matters in Argentina and Latin America, with a particular strength in market entry, market‑access strategies and restructurings.
We have built a strong reputation for acting as a one‑stop shop for large multinational industry players like DXN, establishing, acquiring or winding up operations in Argentina, combining life‑sciences regulation (including ANMAT), structuring distribution agreements, data privacy, corporate, tax, labour and transactional advice with a clear understanding of industry dynamics.