Federico Salim > Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani’s full-service banking and finance practice covers private and public debt and trust issuances, loans, corporate finance, export credit finance, project finance, sovereign debt and general regulatory matters. The ‘flexible and dynamic’ team is particularly well-known for its track record in infrastructure and project finance and has significant experience working with government entities and public banks, most notably on high-profile municipal and  provincial debt restructurings. Energy and mining financings are another active source of work. Marcelo Tavarone, who specialises in project finance, securitisation, debt restructuring and derivatives; and private equity and acquisition finance expert Federico Salim co-lead the practice alongside the  ‘fast and attentive’ Julieta De Ruggiero (banking, finance and capital markets; project finance, securitisation and debt restructuring) and Francisco Molina Portela (capital markets, project finance, debt restructuring, and banking and securities regulation). At associate level, following the departure of senior Facundo González Bustamante to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP‘s New York banking practice as a foreign associate (and to undertake his LLM), semi-senior Ximena Sumaria is the key contact. Intermediate associate Fiorella Ascenso moved to Banco Galicia in March 2023.

Tavarone, Rovelli, Salim & Miani handles the complete range of corporate work from M&A, joint ventures and corporate restructurings to day-to-day corporate matters. The firm is known for its work on complex transactions, with the retail and energy sectors prominent, and has also carved out a niche in wealth management work, handling corporate matters for high net worth individuals and families. The ‘precise, concise and fast’ Juan Pablo Bove, who is active in private equity and M&A, leads the practice alongside well-reviewed transactional lawyer Federico Martín Otero. Experienced banking and finance practitioner Federico Salim, and corporate all-rounder Julián Razumny, are other senior contacts, although the practice has seen the departures of Agustín Griffi and Pablo Tarantino to take up in-house counsel roles at long-standing family office client, Grupo Werthein.