Mr Manuel Beccar Varela > 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 Manuel Beccar Varela
Work Department
- White collar and corporate crime
- Compliance
- Anti-money laundering
- Internal fraud investigations
- Family law
Position
Manuel Beccar Varela is a partner of Beccar Varela. He is the head of the firm’s White Collar and Criminal Law department. His practice areas include frauds and swindles, corporate fraud, cyber crimes and piracy, foreign exchange controls, anti-money laundering, criminal tax, social security law, customs and international trade, environmental law, criminal trademark, antitrust, property crime, extradition and international criminal law, general criminal law, and criminal procedure law, among others. He has broad expertise in family law/divorces, focusing on property settlement agreements.
Career
Manuel Maria Beccar Varela joined the firm as partner in 2012, to establish and lead the White Collar and Corporate Crime Department, the first full service law firm in Argentina to incorporate and offer this service.
He started his professional career at the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court Nª 1 in 1988, moving to the Criminal Oral Court Nª 6 in 1993, until 1996 when he started to work as a criminal lawyer in the private sector. He was in charge of the criminal law department at SICMA, an insurance group owned by Perez Companc. He was appointed as Chief of Cabinet of the Secretary of Judicial Investigations of the Ministry of Justice of Buenos Aires Province (1999-2001). He worked as associate of various boutique firms dedicated to white collar law, including Estudio Vergara & Asociados, until founding the law firm “FERNANDEZ ALONSO, BECCAR VARELA & RICHARDS” in 1994, which within few years was recognized among the top five rankings of white collar law firms. Since 2012 he has headed the White Collar Department of the firm, integrating various criminal lawyers into the department.
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 Colegio de Abogados de San Isidro, the Criminal Federal Chamber of San Martin (with nationwide jurisdiction in federal matters) and the International Bar Association.
Education
Manuel obtained his Law degree from Universidad de Belgrano (1994). He obtained his specialization in Criminal Law from the Universidad Austral – School of Law (2002) and his postgraduate diploma in “Compliance and Criminal Law” from Universidad Austral – IAE School (2016).
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.
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