Marcelo Etchebarne > DLA Piper Argentina > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile
DLA Piper Argentina Offices
Av. Eduardo Madero 900
16th Floor
Buenos Aires C1106ACV
Argentina
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Marcelo Etchebarne
Work Department
Capital Markets; Corporate and M&A; Banking & Finance; Restructuring
Position
Managing Partner
Career
Marcelo Etchebarne is a Partner at DLA Piper sharing time between the New York and Buenos Aires offices. He serves as the Managing Partner of DLA Piper Argentina, Latin America Regional Practice Group Leader for the Corporate-Capital Markets Practice, and Special Projects Regional Leader for the Asia Practice.
With over 30 years of experience, Marcelo has extensive experience in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, debt restructurings and complex dispute resolution, having worked on more than 200 transactions over the last two decades. He worked on approximately 250 transactions over the last two decades, including some of the largest transactions taking place in Latin America. He designed some of the most innovative multi-billion cross border transactions taking place in the region, including five Latin American deals of the year in recent times. Marcelo acted as lead counsel to the Ad-hoc Creditors Committee on YPF’s US$6.2 billion restructuring, the project bond and related financings and acquisitions of Stoneway Capital for US$1.1 billion, the representation of Vicentin on its US$1.5 billion restructuring (ongoing), the representation of bondholders on the US$66 billion debt exchange of Argentina, the successful representation of AES against YPF on a US$1 billion claim (settled), and Methanex against Petrobras (settled). He also designed the US$18.3 billion Argentine debt restructuring in 2010, in which he served as legal counsel to the Global Coordinator, Barclays Capital. Between 2002 and 2004 he acted as counsel to UBS on the US$80 billion debt restructuring of Argentina. Between 2012 and 2016 he represented multiple institutional investors in connection with the Argentine debt litigation in New York courts. He has been frequently interviewed and quoted by the Financial Times, CNN and The Economist.
Languages
English; Spanish; French
Memberships
Trustee of the Eisenhower Fellowships in Philadelphia
Trustee World Jurist Association
Member of the Board of Trustees of the El Museo del Barrio in Harlem, New York
Education
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LL.M., Harvard Law School
Law degree, Universidad Católica Argentina Law School – Highest GPA of his year, Gold Medal, Premio Editorial “El Derecho”
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Law degree, Universidad Católica Argentina Law School
Highest GPA of his year
Gold Medal
Lawyer Rankings
Argentina > Banking and finance
(Leading individuals)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 Suk, Federico Vieyra and Marcelo Rá.
Argentina > Corporate and M&A
DLA Piper Argentina specialises in complex, cross-border M&A deals, primarily advising international corporates and private equity investors on Argentine and Latin American transactions. Leveraging the global platform of its parent, the ‘agile’ practice is regularly called on to advise on the impact of local antitrust, corporate finance, intellectual property and tax law on international deals. The firm has been particularly active on private equity deals, with agribusiness, oil-and-gas, financial services, energy and technology among the sectors covered. The team is co-led by the ‘excellent’ Martin Mittelman, who has a strong energy and natural resources practice; and the ‘exceptional’ Antonio Arias, a standout M&A lawyer who also co-heads DLA Piper’s Latin America regional venture capital and technology group. The team can also call on the experience of capital markets lawyer and banking and finance head Marcelo Etchebarne, with private equity and venture capital senior Juan Pablo Reverendo the key contact at associate level.
Latin America: International firms > Capital markets
DLA Piper LLP (US) has a well developed Latin America capital markets team spread across its offices in the region and in New York; moreover, many of its practitioners are dual-qualified lawyers in both the US and one-or-other Latin American jurisdiction. The firm has an established record in high-yield debt, medium-term notes, asset backed securities and project bonds, while structured finance and securitisation (including diversified payments rights securitisations) are also fortes for the team – which worked intensively on debt restructurings and liability management transactions during 2022. The group benefits from outstanding links to Latin American corporates and financial institutions. New York partner Christopher Paci is an immensely experienced capital markets specialist with a strong focus on Latin America. Managing partner of the Buenos Aires office Marcelo Etchebarne, who splits his time between Argentina and New York, and is also an experienced capital markers expert.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Argentina > Banking and finance
- Banking and finance Argentina
- Corporate and M&A Argentina