Mr Fernando Martínez Zuviría > Allende & Brea > BUENOS AIRES, Argentina > Lawyer Profile
Allende & Brea Offices
Maipú 1300, Piso 11, C1006ACT
Argentina
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Mr Fernando Martínez Zuviría
Work Department
Life Sciences & Healthcare
Position
Partner. He specializes in advising local and international clients on corporate, contractual and regulatory matters, with special focus on laboratories and medical products companies, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, transfers of goodwill and reorganizations, as well as on matters related to the importation, storage and distribution of drugs and medical products, and other day-to-day operations such as licensing, agency and distribution agreements, logistics operators, bids with the State, and the relevant proceedings before the National Administration of Drugs, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT) and National and Provincial Ministries of Health.
Career
Fernando worked as a foreign associate in the Miami office of Holland & Knight LLP between 2012 and 2013, focusing his practice on corporate advisory and mergers and acquisitions in Latin America.
He is recognized by Legal 500 as a “Next Generation Partner”.
Languages
He is fluent in English and Spanish.
Memberships
He is a member of the Federal Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires.
Education
Universidad Austral – Lawyer (magna cum laude)
Academy of American and International Law at the Center for American and International Law, Texas (United States)
Master of Laws (LL.M.) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)
Lawyer Rankings
Argentina > Life sciences and healthcare
(Next Generation Partners)The Allende & Brea life sciences team advises clients in the pharmaceutical, medical devices, biotechnology, food, beverages and cosmetics industries on daily operations, regulatory matters, M&A deals, and licensing and distribution agreements. Recent mandates have seen the team assist clients with regulatory clearances for the import, export, sale and distribution of medical products in Argentina, clinical trials, and healthcare packaging and labelling. The practice is co-led by Maria Morena Del Rio, who focuses on regulatory matters in relation to the life sciences sector; and Fernando Martínez Zuviría, who has experience working with the National Administration of Drugs, Foods and Medical Devices (ANMAT) and the National and Provincial Ministries of Health.
Argentina > Corporate and M&A
Allende & Brea is regularly called on by foreign companies for advice on complex transactions and exit strategies from Argentina, including disposals and carve-outs. The firm works across a broad range of industries, with insurance, agribusiness and technology among its areas of particular expertise. Vastly experienced corporate lawyer and firm managing partner Valeriano Lynch heads the team in tandem with Santiago Sturla, who advises clients on a broad range of corporate matters, including M&A, shareholder conflicts, financing and restructuring. Dispute resolution and restructuring expert Diego Botana and Raul Fratantoni, who has a strong tax background and an active portfolio of family-owned company clients, are other key senior names. Corporate all-rounder Tomás de Cío, transactional-focused Marcos Patron Costas, and life sciences specialist Fernando Martínez Zuviría all provide further partner-level expertise.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners Argentina > Life sciences and healthcare
- Life sciences and healthcare Argentina
- Corporate and M&A Argentina