Mr Maximiliano Nicolás D'Auro > Beccar Varela > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile
Beccar Varela Offices
EDIFICIO REPÚBLICA, TUCUMÁN 1, 3RD FLOOR
C1049AAA CIUDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BUENOS AIRES
Argentina
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Mr Maximiliano Nicolás D'Auro
Work Department
- Banking and finance
- Commercial fraud & asset tracing
- Compliance, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering
Position
Maximiliano D’Auro is a partner at Beccar Varela, having joined the firm in 2000. He is a member of the Executive Committee and heads the Anti-Corruption and Compliance Department.
Career
He has broad experience in banking and financial law, advising both foreign and local financial institutions not only on structuring complex financial transactions but also on specific regulatory matters. He also provides legal advice to national and multinational companies in all aspects of anti-corruption laws, regulations and compliance. His expertise relates specifically to the prevention aspects of the anti-corruption legal framework, the implementation of codes of ethics and compliance programs.
Languages
He speaks Spanish and English.
Memberships
Maximiliano is a member of the Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal (Buenos Aires Bar Association), the secretary of the Comité de Abogados de Bancos de la República Argentina, a vocal of the executive committee of AmCham’s Business Ethics & Transparency Institute, and president of the Compliance Committee of the Colegio de Abogados de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. He is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA); Conference Quality Officer of its Anticorruption Committee, as well as the Argentine contributor for its Anti-Money Laundering Forum. He is also an honorary member of the International Association of Young Lawyers. He has participated as a speaker in many conferences and written articles on anti-corruption, commercial fraud, anti-money laundering, asset tracing and recovery. Maximiliano was invited by the OECD to participate, as a private practitioner, in the evaluation of Argentina on the OECD Convention on Foreign Bribery (Buenos Aires, 2014).
Education
Maximiliano obtained his Law degree from Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (1997) and his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the London School of Economics (2000). He worked as a foreign associate at Gómez Acebo & Pombo (Barcelona, Spain, 2003). Prior to joining Beccar Varela, Maximiliano worked as a legal clerk for a Federal Court. He obtained extensive experience in litigation, which he still puts into practice working with the firm’s Litigation Department, assisting clients in complex judicial cases, class actions and corporate investigation.
Lawyer Rankings
Argentina > Compliance
(Leading individuals)As the first Argentine law firm to establish a white collar and corporate crime department, Beccar Varela is known for its expertise handling internal investigations and criminal proceedings, including complex cross-border matters. The team also advises clients on anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing, as well as the implementation of related compliance programmes, risk assessments and monitoring. Other areas covered include asset tracing and recovery, anonymous whistleblowing and business ethics. Compliance and anti-corruption expert Maximiliano Nicolás D’Auro co-leads the practice with white-collar crime veteran Manuel Beccar Varela. Partners Gustavo Papeschi (anti-corruption and compliance) and Francisco Zavalía (white collar and corporate crime, cybercrime and regulatory compliance) provide further senior-level expertise, with senior Dorothea Garff the key contact at associate level.
Argentina > Banking and finance
The Beccar Varela banking and finance team is known for its transactional capability, with experience in cross-border financing and refinancing deals with complex underlying collateral structures, as well as corporate, project and asset financings. Advising on the foreign exchange implications for bank lending is another busy area, with the practice also at the forefront of regulatory matters in the fintech space, and active in the fast-growing sustainability-linked loan and bond markets. Pablo Torretta, Luciana Denegri, Daniel Levi and Maximiliano Nicolás D’Auro jointly-lead the practice, which also continues to draw on the vast experience of veteran M&A and banking partner Roberto Fortunati. Torretta brings extensive forex, restructuring and international financing experience to the table, with Denegri an influential figure in the development of Argentina’s sustainable finance ecosystem. D’Auro, who is also prominent in the firm’s compliance practice, advises banks on financing, refinancing and regulation; while Daniel Levi, who leads the firm’s fintech group, played a leading role in Ualá’s pioneering purchase of Wilobank, the first acquisition of a bank by a fintech in Argentina. The practice strengthened its senior ranks in 2022 with the partner promotions of refinancing and restructuring expert Felipe Videla and Lucía Degano, the latter of whom heads operations in the firm’s regional office in the free trade zone in Uruguay. At associate level, seniors María Victoria Pavani (capital markets); and Gonzalo Ochoa (banking/foreign exchange regulation) are the key contacts.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Bankruptcy and restructuring
- Competition and antitrust
- Consumer law
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity
- Insurance
- Labour and employment
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Real estate
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Tax