Fermín Caride > Bomchil > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

Bomchil provides its impressive client base of local and international borrowers with wide ranging banking and finance support, advising on capital markets, liability management, restructuring and banking regulation. The practice has expanded its lender-side mandates noticeably, with work on innovative refinancing structures (where repayments are made using real estate assets), particularly notable. Fintech, cryptocurrency, and direct lending expertise are other segments of particular capability. Practice head Fermín Caride focuses on complex transactions and financial and forex deal structuring. María Victoria Funes is known for her expertise in banking and forex regulatory matters, and also leads on fintech mandates. Partner Patricio Martin has an active capital markets and M&A practice, working on liability management transactions and dollar-linked notes issuance, with experienced senior María Victoria Tuculet prominent at associate level. Since publication, Tuculet has been promoted to the partnership – effective as of Janaury 2024.

Bomchil brings together expertise from its banking, corporate, tax, technology, IP and compliance teams to provide fintech clients with a comprehensive service that helps them to navigate the complex and rapidly evolving fintech regulatory framework in Argentina. The team works with regulated and non-regulated companies in the crypto, P2P lending, e-payments and crowdfunding segments, providing support on a range of regulatory, structuring, investment and financing matters. Banking partner María Victoria Funes is the key name and leads the practice, with further senior support coming from banking and finance team head Fermín Caride.

Real estate clients call on Bomchil for assistance with project finance, trust formation, operating agreements, and the development and construction of multi-scale projects, among other matters. The five-strong practice group is co-led by Fermín Caride, a transactional specialist with expertise in real estate, alongside corporate and M&A partner Adrián Furman. The group also draws on expertise from other departments, with colleagues in the banking, taxation, environmental and regulatory areas all participating on an as-needed basis.

Bomchil’s oil-and-gas practice has gone from strength-to-strength following its 2020 tie-up with leading oil-and-gas and energy boutique Alliani & Bruzzon. The practice has wide-ranging industry capabilities and is regularly sought out for its deep expertise in the areas of exploration, production, transportation and refining. The team also covers dispute resolution, regulatory issues and outbound and inbound oil-and-gas transactional matters. The practice is fronted by industry rainmaker Pablo Alliani, a regulatory, oil-and-gas and M&A practitioner of vast experience. Veteran oil-and-gas all-rounder Fernando Brunelli is another big name in the sector, with further senior level support coming from administrative law, disputes and energy regulation partner Cristian Galansky. The practice also draws extensively on the firm’s full-service capabilities, with additional assistance coming from banking and finance partner Fermín Caride and economic regulation and disputes specialist María Inés Corrá. A phalanx of associates dedicated to oil-and-gas lead the second line, with Brenda Saluzzi, Matías Debarbieri and Andrea Lovfall among the key names.