Mr Miguel María Silveyra > Beccar Varela > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

Mr Miguel María Silveyra

+54 (11) 4379 6843 msilveyra@beccarvarela.com View profile View profile

Work Department

• Company law
• Closed companies governance and family business governance
• Succession planning
• Shareholders disputes
• General corporate advice

Position

Miguel Silveyra is a partner at Beccar Varela, having joined the firm in 1998. He co-heads the firm’s Company Law Department.

Career

Miguel María Silveyra has been a partner of Beccar Varela since 2009. He started his career at the firm in 1998. He worked as foreign associate at Gomez Acebo & Pombo (Madrid, Spain, 2004).

His practice areas include company law, family business governance and corporate advice. He specializes in the design of company and contractual structures to develop business activities, in the negotiation and drafting of shareholders’ agreements, bylaws and rules of corporate governance in general, in family estate and company succession planning, and in the management and resolution of company conflicts.

He advises family companies and partner groups in the process of negotiation, planning and design of rules of corporate governance for the management of their business groups, in the drafting of family protocols and shareholders’ agreements, and in their estate and succession planning. He has also intervened in company conflicts of different kinds, either as consultant of directors, as director appointed by the shareholders or as legal representative of the local or foreign shareholders.

Languages

He speaks Spanish and English.

Memberships

He is a member of the Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal (Buenos Aires Bar Association), the International Bar Association and the Family Firm Institute.

Education

Miguel obtained his Law degree from Universidad Católica Argentina (1993); obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Universidad Austral (1995) and a Diploma in Advanced Studies from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain, 2004).