Mr Manuel Benites > Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites & Arntsen > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

Clients turn to Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites & Arntsen for advice across all contentious and non-contentious customs operations. The  practice covers foreign exchange regulations, export and import financing and anti-dumping regulations, and is well known for advising on the trade-and-customs aspects of M&A; it also has experience challenging legislation and administrative acts allowing for the collection of retroactive export duties. Experienced tax partner Manuel Benites, who handles international trade, customs law and customs litigation, co-leads the team with Andrés Galindez, who has a focus on contentious trade matters. Counsel Germán Martín Quirán provides additional support, particulary regarding anti-dumping investigations, with export and import duties, and customs value matters also among his key areas of activity.

Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites & Arntsen provides comprehensive tax advice on domestic and international transactions and matters, with the team particularly noted for the depth of its litigation practice, which handles federal, provincial and municipal tax cases. The team is further recognised for its expertise in the planning, development and implementation of procedural strategies for client defences in disputes with tax authorities and governmental agencies. Tax planning and the tax aspects of M&A, debt restructurings and company reorganisations are additional areas in which the practice is regularly active. Manuel Benites has more than four decades’ tax litigation and cross-border taxation experience. He co-leads the team alongside tax claims and litigation expert Luis Nuñez; customs litigation specialist Andrés Galindez; and Facundo Fernández Santos, who focuses on transactional work, tax planning and transfer pricing. Further support comes from counsels Matías Corte (tax litigation) and Germán Martín Quirán (customs); and Cristina Di Benedetto who is sought out for her expertise in hydrocarbon tax and royalty claims.