Federico Osvaldo Valiño > Abeledo Gottheil Abogados > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile
Abeledo Gottheil Abogados Offices
AV. EDUARDO MADERO 1020
5TH FLOOR
1106 BUENOS AIRES
Argentina
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Federico Osvaldo Valiño
Position
Partner at Abeledo Gottheil Abogados.
Federico Osvaldo Valiño joined Abeledo Gottheil Abogados in 2006 and has been a partner since 2018.
His practice areas include complex litigation, consumer law, restructuring, insolvency, and bankruptcy. He also has broad experience in arbitration, commercial law and corporate legal advice related to distribution and sales representative contracts.
Career
Graduated from the School of Law of the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2007 and member of Abeledo Gottheil Abogados since 2006, he has complemented his professional work with different post-graduate studies, among them the Specialization in Contracts and Damages of the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (2018).
He is mainly devoted to complex litigation and arbitration and provides advice to multinational companies on corporate and contractual issues from an integral viewpoint, especially focused on conflict prevention and dispute resolution.
His academic background has been completed with different post-graduate studies: a Course on Modern Business Contracts (XXVII), Business Law Legal Concept of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires, 2014; Training Course on the Practice of Business Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2009; Course on Modern Business Contracts (XXVI), Business Law Legal Concept of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires, 2011.
Between 2015 and 2016, he was President of CAMBRAS Joven, young professionals’ area of the Argentine-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce of the Argentine Republic (CAMBRAS).
During the years 2020 and 2021, he contributed to the Global Indicators projects of The World Bank Group, in the respective chapters “Resolving Insolvency”, “Enforcing Contracts”, and “Protecting Minority Investors”, relating to the Argentine Republic.
He is currently the sub-editor of the Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Journal of www.eldial.com, by Editorial Albrematica S.A. and a member of the Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal and the Colegio de Abogados de San Isidro.
Areas:
Litigation | Consumer Law & Product Liability | Class actions | Bankruptcy and restructuring | Arbitration | Contracts and Corporate Advice | Probono |
Bids, Public Concessions and Privatizations | Construction and Infrastructure Projects Law | Automotive Sector | Railroad Sector
Languages
Spanish (native), English and Italian
Memberships
He is a member of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires (Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal) and of the Bar Association of the City of San Isidro, Province of Buenos Aires (Colegio de Abogados de San Isidro).
Lawyer Rankings
Argentina > Bankruptcy and restructuring
Abeledo Gottheil Abogados counsels creditors, shareholders and debtors on a wide range of receivership, bankruptcy, and restructuring proceedings, covering a range of industry sectors. The team handles judicial and extrajudicial matters, is regularly called on to join steering committees and court designated creditor committees, and has litigated extensively in the Argentine bankruptcy courts. Hernán Martín Oriolo (receivership proceedings, bankruptcy cases, litigation); Leonardo Pablo Cippitelli (bankruptcy, insolvency and shareholder litigation) and Federico Osvaldo Valiño (bankruptcy and insolvency litigation) jointly lead the practice.
Argentina > Consumer law
Product liability and product recall processes are key focus areas for Abeledo Gottheil Abogados, which has a strong roster of consumer-facing clients in the automotive, retail and consumer goods sectors, among others. The firm is also regularly called on to represent high-profile clients in collective and individual claims, as well as in judicial and administrative hearings. In addition to contentious matters, the team leverages its product liability expertise to promote product safety and minimise future product liability exposure. The practice also advises on product labelling and advertising campaigns. The group is jointly-led by experienced litigator Rodrigo Blas Hernández and an up-and-coming partners Federico Osvaldo Valiño, who specialises in consumer law; and complex litigation and product liability expert Natalia Soledad Vannucci, who was raised to the partnership in January 2023.
Argentina > Dispute resolution
Abeledo Gottheil Abogados has wide experience across international and domestic arbitration and litigation, advising high profile local and international clients on a range of matters. The firm’s arbitration practice is particularly prominent, with the team regularly called on to assist in ICC, ICSID and Buenos Aires Stock Exchange Arbitral Tribunal proceedings. Rodrigo Blas Hernández, who has extensive complex litigation experience, leads the practice alongside Hernán Martín Oriolo, a well-known litigation lawyer in the the oil-and-gas, infrastructure and construction sectors; and Luis Erize, who has a strong dispute resolution track record in the electricity and hydrocarbons industries. Shareholder litigation expert Leonardo Pablo Cippitelli and complex commercial litigation lawyer Federico Osvaldo Valiño round-off the senior team. At associate level, senior Florencia Buczak is noted.