Mr Guillermo Jorge > Bruchou & Funes de Rioja > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

Bruchou & Funes de Rioja
ING. ENRIQUE BUTTY 275, FLOOR 12
C1001 AFA BUENOS AIRES
Argentina

Work Department

Corporate Compliance, Internal Investigations and Business Crime.

Position

Partner.

Career

Mr. Jorge is in charge of the Compliance, Investigations and Corporate Criminal Law department.

He is a recognized expert in anti-corruption compliance and money laundering prevention, and for his innovative strategies for mitigating legal risks.

Prior to joining Bruchou, he was the founding partner of Governance Latam. Apart from advising multinational and local companies, he is regularly consulted in public integrity reform processes, anticorruption and laundering prevention in Argentina and most Latin American countries, as well as by international organizations such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He was also a member of FIFA’s Independent Governance Committee, which oversaw the organization’s corporate governance reforms.

Additionally, he serves as a Global Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Law and senior researcher at the University of San Andrés in the Center of Anticorruption Studies. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University (2001), a scholar at the National Endowment for Democracy (2006) and at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University (2009). He has published on the topics in which he specializes in Argentina and abroad, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences.

He is a member of the Colegio Público de Abogados de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

He is a member of Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal.

Mr. Jorge received a law degree from the Law School of the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1995 and completed an LLM from Harvard University (2003).

Languages

Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Memberships

He is a member of the Bar Association of the Federal Capital (Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal).

Education

– Law degree from the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires (1995).
– LLM in Law from the Harvard University (2003).

Lawyer Rankings

Argentina > Compliance

(Leading individuals)

Guillermo JorgeBruchou & Funes de Rioja

Clients call on Bruchou & Funes de Rioja for support on the implementation of bespoke compliance programmes and legal and regulatory corporate risk mitigation strategies. The practice also has extensive expertise handling internal investigations and associated litigation, white-collar crime and compliance training. Veteran anti-corruption practitioner Guillermo Jorge, who is particularly well-regarded for his specialist asset recovery expertise, leads the practice with criminal law and anti-bribery partner Fernando Felipe Basch another key senior name. At associate level, specialist semi-senior Guido Valeriani is noted; former fellow semi-senior Manú Hersch García  moved in house at Mercado Libre in March 2023