Mr Tomás Allende > 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 Tomás Allende
Work Department
- Private equity
- Corporate/M&A
- Banks and financial institutions
- Project finance
Position
Tomás Allende is a partner at Beccar Varela and a member of its executive committee. He leads the Private Equity Department since his reinstatement to the firm in 2016.
Career
His practice areas include private equity funds, mergers and acquisitions, lending, and investments in conventional and renewable energy. He has participated in complex multijurisdictional fund structuring and been involved in several M&A and financial transactions throughout the region. He also has broad experience in corporate governance of family companies.
Languages
He speaks Spanish, English and French.
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 American Bar Association. Likewise he is involved with Latin America Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LAVCA).
Education
Tomás obtained his law degree from Universidad Católica Argentina (1997) and his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Duke University, North Carolina, USA (1999). He worked as a foreign associate at Shearman & Sterling (New York, USA, 2000-2001) and as an intern at Hughes Hubbard (New York, USA, 1997). He started his career at Beccar Varela in 1995, becoming a partner in 2006. From 2008 to 2016, he served as Chief Regional Legal Counsel for Latin America for The Rohatyn Group (TRG).
Lawyer Rankings
Argentina > Corporate and M&A
(Next Generation Partners)Beccar Varela is a ‘trusted partner’ that multinationals, private equity firms and local SMEs turn to for support on the structuring of complex acquisitions and disposals of controlling and minority stakes, corporate reorganisations, spin-offs, and joint ventures. In addition to its active transactional practice, the team also provides day-to-day corporate advisory support to a large portfolio of domestic and international clients in a range of sectors, with its expertise in technology, financial services, agribusiness and energy particularly noted. Heavyweight M&A lawyer Roberto Crouzel co-leads the practice alongside standout transactional expert María Shakespear; ‘outstanding’ M&A lawyer Alejandro Poletto; and respected private equity and private client adviser Ramón I Moyano. Ricardo Castañeda, previously with YPF, has deepened the firm’s energy and power expertise, with natural resources department head Roberto Fortunati also making a valuable contribution. Other key partners include experienced cross-border M&A lawyer Tomás Allende; corporate and banking all-rounder Carolina Serra; and Lucía Degano, who runs the firm’s regional office in the free trade zone in Uruguay. Counsel Eugenia Radaelli (M&A, corporate advisory and banking & finance) spearheads the practice’s second line with senior associate Luciana Liefeldt another key contact.
Argentina > Bankruptcy and restructuring
Beccar Varela handles financial restructurings and bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings for international and national clients across a range of industry sectors. The team covers out of-court negotiations, prejudicial proceedings, credit recovery, insolvency and bankruptcy reorganisation proceedings, and debt restructurings. Litigation is another strong area, with the firm managing a large portfolio of proceedings, including cross-border matters, at provincial and national level. Martín Gastaldi is a well-known insolvency, bankruptcy and dispute-resolution expert. He leads the team alongside private equity practitioner Tomás Allende and banking specialist Pablo Torretta. Federico Sosa, who covers complex litigation, class actions, and insolvency and bankruptcy; and corporate and banking lawyer Felipe Videla, who was raised to the partnership in April 2022, are the other key contacts.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners Argentina > Corporate and M&A
- Bankruptcy and restructuring Argentina
- Corporate and M&A Argentina
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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