Mr Cristian J. P. Mitrani > Mitrani Caballero & Ruiz Moreno Abogados > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

Mitrani Caballero & Ruiz Moreno Abogados is known for its work on large, complex transactions in Argentina and abroad, with an experienced team that advises a domestic and international client base on M&A, strategic alliances, joint ventures and green field investments. The firm is a prominent presence on big ticket agribusiness and oil-and-gas deals, and is also active in the manufacturing, healthcare and technology sectors too. Clients equally turn to the team for support on corporate matters, including commercial and licensing contracts and cross-border business reorganisations. Practice head Diego Parise has extensive transactional and capital markets’ experience and firm founder Cristian Mitrani additionally adds his vast experience to the group. Siro Astolfi, who has considerable expertise in competition and anti-trust matters as well as an outstanding corporate transactions’ track record; and Aixa Sureda, whose practice is focused on restructuring, private equity and M&A, add further heft to the practice’s senior ranks. Younger partners Mercedes Rodríguez Giavarini and Carlos Eliçabe are other key names; with Fiorella Belsito and recently promoted senior associates Bruno Fiorino and Melina Goldberg leading a capable second line.

Best known for its experience handling multi-jurisdictional, cross-border competition and antitrust matters, Mitrani Caballero & Ruiz Moreno Abogados assists a global client base with merger filings and antitrust proceedings across Latin America. The team provides regular counsel on commercial behaviour and the avoidance of anticompetitive practices, as well as on the establishment of competition compliance programs and internal investigations. Respected corporate lawyer Aixa Sureda is well-versed in competition and antitrust law matters and co-leads the team alongside Cristian Mitrani, who clients seek out for advice on competition law infringement cases and internal investigations. The team’s second line is led by senior associate Evangelina González Soldo, whose practice covers transactional, antitrust and competition matters.

Mitrani Caballero & Ruiz Moreno Abogados advises national and international companies on key areas of regulatory focus, including anti-corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing prevention, data protection, export controls and economic sanctions. The practice has unique experience working on negotiations with overseas authorities, including the US Department of Justice, and has developed distinctive knowledge of US, UK and EU regulatory regimes, in addition to its expertise in Argentine anti-corruption law. Investigations, self-disclosure, risk mitigation and investor litigation matters are all handled, with compliance programme implementation, training and due diligence work also undertaken. Firm founder and name partner Cristian Mitrani co-heads the practice alongside experienced compliance specialist Mariela Inés Melhem. Anti-corruption, compliance and privacy law expert María Paula Díaz provides additional partner-level experience.