Guillermo Cabanellas > DLA Piper Argentina > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

DLA Piper Argentina
Av. Eduardo Madero 900
16th Floor
Buenos Aires C1106ACV
Argentina

Work Department

Corporate; Intellectual Property and Technology

Position

Senior Partner

Career

Dr. Guillermo Cabanellas is a Senior Partner in Corporate Group and Managing Partner at DLA Piper Argentina. Dr. Cabanellas has held pre-eminent positions in Argentina for major project developments, restructurings and financings during the past decades, both as private practitioner and advisor to the Federal Government.

He holds degrees in economics (1971) and law (1972) from the University of Buenos Aires. He also has a Master in Comparative Law and a Juridical Science Doctor degree from the University of Illinois. Dr. Cabanellas has been research fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Munich, in 1981, 1982 and 1987, and professor at the Universities of Illinois, Miami and Loyola of Los Angeles. He is professor at the National University of Buenos Aires and at the Universidad de San Andrés. He has published more than 40 books and 100 articles in Argentina, United States and different European countries.

Languages

English; Spanish

Memberships

  • Argentine Academy of Legal Science – Commercial Chapter

Education

  • J.S.D., University of Illinois
  • Master in Corporate Law, University of Illinois
  • Degree, Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires 1972

Lawyer Rankings

Argentina > Banking and finance

DLA Piper Argentina handles complex, cross-border banking and finance matters and has built up extensive experience in large, high-profile corporate, sovereign and sub-sovereign debt restructurings, working with debtors and creditors. The ‘flexible’ and ‘attentive’ team also handles capital markets work, where it leverages the network of its parent firm to support clients on exchange offers and new debt issuance domestically and abroad. The firm’s country manager Marcelo Etchebarne leads the practice and has extensive experience working with sovereign, sub-sovereign and corporate clients on debt and equity offerings. Additional senior level support comes from Guillermo Cabanellas, who has been counselling banks and corporations for more than 30 years; structured finance and financial trust expert Alejandro Noblia and capital markets-focused Justo Segura. Of counsel Nicolas Teijeiro provides high level advice on sovereign and sub-sovereign matters, with the firm’s second line fronted by associates Juan Rosatto, Daiana SukFederico Vieyra and Marcelo Rá.