MBB Balado Bevilacqua Abogados

MBB Balado Bevilacqua Abogados is a boutique firm leading on labor and employment matters founded by Mercedes Balado Bevilacqua in November 2012.

We counsel and represent local and international clients, as well as assist international law firms with their matters in Argentina. The firm is recognized for its expertise in complex local and cross-border employment law matters, and has recently expanded its practice to include counseling in corporate, trade, contractual and tax matters, thereby providing comprehensive legal services to minimize clients’ legal risks and liability exposure and help them thrive during challenging times across Latin America legal and socio political complex scenario.

Our firm daily assists clients with designing cutting-edge policies and practices to comply with their legal obligations and enhance workforce management.  From matters relating to health and safety, social security, compensation and benefits, family and medical leaves, hiring and terminations, litigation and settlements, restructuring due to M&As, collective dismissals, collective bargaining agreements, to a myriad of other employment issues. The firm is specially focused in developing successful strategies to prevent harassment and discrimination at workplace and to promote positive interaction in multicultural payroll, gender equality, diversity and inclusion. We also provide clients with specialized and uniquely-tailored counseling and representation to optimize the workplace, keep pace with the current market needs, and protect foreign investments, based on the client’s industry and specific niche.

MBB Balado Bevilacqua Abogados also regularly forms non-exclusive alliances with international law firms across the globe (including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, England, Spain, Denmark, Japan, China, Peru, Brazil, Colombia and other countries in Latin America and Asia) to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of clients with multinational operations, regardless of the location.

Our main goal is to keep on growing, both, in the national and cross-border legal markets, as well as expanding our areas of knowledge.

Currently, we provide our clients legal counseling within the following industrial sectors, and those are our main target markets:

• Commercial & Professional Services;
• Construction & Materials;
• Consumer Product Manufacturing;
• Education;
• Financial Services;
• Health Care;
• Industrial Engineering;
• Insurance;
• Media;
• Mining & Metals;
• Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences;
• Private Clients / Individuals;
• Real Estate & Real Estate Finance;
• Retail;
• Software & Computer Services;
• Technology, Hardware & Electronics;
• Telecommunications; and
• Transportation, among others.

The firm’s main characteristic is that we make sure that all of our clients, locals and foreign based, receive a solid, quick and accurate advice. To that end, we analyse in particular the following: i) the client’s business and goals; ii) the foreign law, practices and customs (when applicable); iii) how to make the client’s goals and practices work within Argentine local regulations; iv) and support the client along the process.

In view of the above, we are experts in handling a variety of complex local and cross border legal matters and recognized for our expertise in providing preventive counseling aimed at minimizing clients’ exposure and contingencies, considering our client’s particular needs, and based on our experience in complex local and overseas law matters in employment, corporate, commercial, contractual and tax issues.