Ms Carolina Serra > Beccar Varela > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

Beccar Varela
EDIFICIO REPÚBLICA, TUCUMÁN 1, 3RD FLOOR
C1049AAA CIUDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BUENOS AIRES
Argentina
Carolina Serra photo

Work Department

Her practice areas include company law, mergers & acquisitions and banks & financial institutions. She has ample expertise advising both national and international companies on complex corporate law issues and on mergers and acquisitions. Over the past years, she has also counseled on complex financial transactions, including advice in syndicated loans and to the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Carolina has participated in the structuring and day-to-day advice in many of the trusts held by Fideicomisos y Mandatos S.A., a trust services company owned by our firm which acts as trustee/escrow agent in transactions where clients require those services.

Position

Carolina Serra is a partner at Beccar Varela. She joined the firm in October 2005.

Languages

She speaks Spanish, English and Italian.

Memberships

She is a member of the Buenos Aires Bar Association and the International Bar Association.

Education

Carolina obtained her Law degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires (2006). She conducted postgraduate studies in Law and Economics at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Arizona State University (2010). She worked as a foreign associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP (New York, USA, 2016-2017).

Lawyer Rankings

Argentina > Corporate and M&A

(Next Generation Partners)

Carolina SerraBeccar Varela

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.