Diego Fernández > Marval O’Farrell Mairal > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile
Marval O’Farrell Mairal Offices
AV LEANDRO N ALEM 882
C1001AAQ CIUDAD DE BUENOS AIRES
Argentina
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Diego Fernández
Work Department
Information Technology and Privacy / Intellectual Property
Position
Diego is a partner in the IP, IT & privacy practice group. He is a technology expert, with 16 years’ experience in a wide range of expertise which includes privacy & data protection, privacy compliance, privacy in internal investigations and at the workplace, RegTech (including Fintech, Insurtech and HealthTech), software licensing, IT agreements, IT compliance, cyber security, and criminal law in connection with technology. He regularly advises clients on IT and privacy-related matters, and also IP and IT in M&A transactions. He has extensive experience advising clients on IP matters, including litigation, giving the firm the unmatched capability of providing knowledgeable advice on IP and IT under the same person.
Career
Diego joined Marval O’Farrell & Mairal in 2003. During 2014 he worked as visiting foreign counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP in their Chicago Office and was a member of the firm’s IT & Privacy Law Group and the Latin American Practice Group.
Languages
English & Spanish
Memberships
Diego is a member of the Board of Directors of ITechLaw (and vice-chair of the Program Committee for the Americas and Chair of the Latin America Committee). He is also Co-Chair of the IAPP’s Argentine Chapter, member of the Internet Committee of INTA, member of the Technology Committee of IBA. Diego is the President of the Privacy & M&A Committee of the Latin America Privacy Association (ALAP) and Editorial Board Member of the Global Privacy Law Review. Diego is a frequent speaker in international conferences on IT & Privacy issues. Moreover, in his role as Board member of ITechLaw he is responsible for organizing the ITechLaw Cyberspace Camps in Latin America (currently organizing the 6th annual events). Furthermore, in his role of co-chair of the Argentina Chapter of IAPP, he regularly organizes local meetings to discuss hot topics in privacy and data protection.
Education
He graduated from the Universidad Católica Argentina with a law degree in 2003. And in 2013 he earned an LL.M degree in IT & Privacy Law from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, completed with honors, where he participated as the international student ambassador and acting vice president of the Privacy & IT Law Society.
Lawyer Rankings
Argentina > Intellectual property
Marval O’Farrell Mairal is the “go-to” practice for all transactional, contentious and tax-related IP matters. Having started out as an IP boutique before growing into a dominant full service operator, the firm boasts a formidable practice of more than 40 dedicated IP lawyers who handle the gamut of IP work – ranging from local patent, trade mark and copyright litigation and enforcement, to handling IP prosecution and portfolio management for clients across Latin America and the Caribbean. The practice is also able to draw on expertise from other departments of the firm, most notably in the area of criminal law, and offers clients extensive expertise in patent applications and trade mark prosecution too. The team’s enforcement unit, which deals with damages arising from counterfeiting activities, is another differentiator. The practice calls on a deep pool of senior talent that includes Iris Quadrio, who supports domestic and foreign clients across a range of IP matters; trade mark expert Sergio Ellmann; patent litigation and filing expert Martín Bensadon; and IP litigation and anti-counterfeiting veteran Gustavo Giay. A strong cohort of younger partners provides further bench strength and includes Ignacio Sánchez Echagüe (patents); IP litigator Martín Chajchir; Juan M López Mañan (trade marks and domain names); Cristian D Bittel (patent prosecution – particularly for pharma, biotech and agribusiness clients); and Diego Fernández (IP transactional matters and IT and privacy related advisory), along with Andrés O’Farrell (criminal litigation, enforcement and anti-counterfeiting) and Eugenio Hoss (patents). Manuela Adrogue, who covers IT, data protection, privacy and IP asset transactions, is the key contact at associate level.
Argentina > TMT
(Next Generation Partners)Marval O’Farrell Mairal provides clients with a ‘truly exceptional’ integrated TMT practice and is the go-to legal adviser on civil and contentious matters for Argentina’s big three telecoms operators, as well as telecoms infrastructure, subsea fibre optic cable and satellite providers. The group also has deep knowledge of all aspects of the television, software and online gaming sectors, and also handles blockchain, fintech and crypto-asset related matters. The ‘simply fantastic’ telecoms and broadcasting practitioner, Daniel Di Paola, co-leads the team alongside vastly experienced broadcast, internet, media and telecom partner, Javier Etcheverry Boneo
; and IT and privacy expert, Gustavo Giay. Partner Diego Fernández contributes with extensive data protection, privacy and cybersecurity expertise.
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- Labour and employment
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Public law
- Tax
- TMT