María Victoria Funes > 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.