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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. 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
Latin America: International firms > Capital markets
DLA Piper LLP (US)
has made a series of lateral hires to its US-based Latin America practice, building on its solid presence in the region itself. The Latin America-focused capital markets group has a background in international debt capital markets, including high-yield bonds, medium-term notes, private placements, asset-backed securities and project/infrastructure bonds. It is also noted for structured finance and securitisation, along with debt restructurings and liability management transactions. New York partner Christopher Paci has extensive experience in international capital markets offerings, including those originating from Latin America. Joshua Kaufman joined the Miami office (as practice co-chair) from Cooley LLP in March 2024, reinforcing the firm’s international capital markets expertise. Senior capital markets specialist Marcelo Etchebarne
now splits his time between New York and Buenos Aires.
Argentina > Banking and finance
(Hall of Fame)DLA Piper Argentina handles complex, cross-border sovereign, sub-sovereign and corporate work; participating actively in local and international debt issuance, as well as restructurings, exchange offers and sustainability-linked debt transactions. The team’s sub-sovereign practice is particularly strong, with the firm actively participating in nearly all provincial deals, both in the international and local capital markets. The practice is confidently led by experienced capital markets expert Marcelo Etchebarne. Guillermo Cabanellas handles banking, corporate, intellectual property and antitrust matters, Alejandro Noblia is a name to note for structured finance and financial trusts, and Justo Segura takes point on capital markets and public debt issuance work, with the trio providing strong partner-level backup. Of counsel Nicolas Teijeiro provides additional expertise in finance and liability management transactions, debt restructurings, registered offerings, and private placements.