Mr Daniel Levi > Beccar Varela > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Daniel Levi

Work Department
Banking and Finance, Fintech
Position
Daniel Levi is a partner at Beccar Varela, where he co-heads the firm’s Fintech department.
Career
Daniel joined Beccar Varela in 2004. His practice areas include corporate law, with a particular focus on corporate finance, banking law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and commercial contracts.
Daniel has extensive experience advising on local and cross-border financial transactions, including loan facilities, syndicated loans, securitizations, project financings, and distressed acquisitions, acting either on the financial institutions’ or on the borrowers’ side.
He also co-leads the firm’s Fintech Department, assisting foreign and local initiatives in all the verticals of business, with special expertise in regulatory aspects. His comprehensive approach allows him to give advice in all the stages of business, from structuring, landing, and capital raising, as well as in daily corporate and regulatory advice. He is strongly committed to projects that generate a positive impact.
Languages
He speaks Spanish, English, and Portuguese.
Memberships
He is a member of the Buenos Aires Bar Association and of the International Bar Association. He also actively participates in the Argentine-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CAMBRAS).
Education
Daniel obtained his Law degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2006) and a Masters’s in Finance from the Universidad del CEMA (2011, with distinction). He also has post-graduate studies in Negotiation at Harvard Law School (USA, 2014), in Valuation of Financial Institutions at APIMEC, in Private Equity & Venture Capital at INSPER Institute (Brazil, 2016), in Innovative Banking & Fintech at Imperial College Business School (UK, 2018) and in Digital Banking at Universidad Di Tella (2018).
Daniel worked as a foreign associate at Pinheiro Neto Advogados (São Paulo, Brazil, 2015-2016) in their M&A and Banking & Fintech departments. This experience allowed him, as a co-founder and a co-leader of our Brazil Desk, to be a facilitator for Brazilian investors and Brazilian-based projects coming to Argentina, and for local entrepreneurs interested in doing business in the neighboring country.
Between 2009 and 2015, Daniel was a professor in Contracts and Negotiation at the Universidad de Palermo (Argentina).
Lawyer Rankings
Argentina > Banking and finance
(Next Generation Partners)Beccar Varela is well-versed in domestic and cross-border financings involving complex underlying collateral structures and is also sought out for its expertise in project finance and asset finance deals. Other areas of strength include advising on liability management transactions, forex regulation, licensing and regulation in the fintech space, and sustainability-linked debt issuance. Forex and cross-border financing expert Pablo Torretta co-leads the practice alongside influential sustainable finance lawyer Luciana Denegri, fintech leader Daniel Levi, and compliance, refinancing and regulation partner Maximiliano D’Auro. Veteran banking and M&A lawyer Roberto Fortunati provides senior-level counsel to the leadership cohort, which is also supported by younger partners Felipe Videla, who handles refinancing and restructuring, and Lucía Degano, head of the regional office in the Uruguay free trade zone. At the associate level, María Victoria Pavani advises on capital markets, Gonzalo Ochoa handles banking and foreign exchange regulation, and Luciana Liefeldt is a key contact for banking and project finance.
Argentina > Fintech
(Next Generation Partners)Beccar Varela‘s well-resourced fintech practice is a first port of call for both banking and non-banking players seeking regulatory, structuring, investment and financing, data privacy and public relations support. The team has helped numerous international fintech players launch operations in Argentina. Key fintech verticals, including challenger banks, e-wallets, payments, open banking, cryptoassets, crowdfunding and insurtech are all covered, with the firm also recognised for providing specialised legal advice and training for fintech entrepreneurs. Banking regulation expert Daniel Levi leads the practice alongside versatile transactional lawyer María Shakespear, and experienced banking lawyer Pablo Torretta, who is known for his expertise in FX regulation and multilateral and cross-border financings.
Lawyer Rankings
- Fintech Argentina
- Next Generation Partners Argentina > Fintech
- Next Generation Partners Argentina > Banking and finance
- Banking and finance 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
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