A fast-growing Argentine company in the energy sector, Petroquímica Comodoro Rivadavia (PCR) employs a legal team that is driven by the values of ‘teamwork and leadership’ according to Mariano Juárez Goñi, the most senior lawyer in the team and the company’s general counsel. A medium sized business, PCR’s main market sector is the energy industry and works on a transnational basis in Argentina, Ecuador and Chile. Juárez explains that it is ‘strongly investing in the renewable energy industry and continues to grow in the oil and gas sector as well as the cement industry’.

Being a business enabling function, the company’s legal team is set up to help with this ambition by utilising its ‘extensive experience in the different industries that PCR is involved in, and is therefore used to leverage our experience and analytical, technical and interpersonal skills, as well as apply them in pursuit of PCR’s interests’. A team of five members which must adapt to provide legal services in a flexible way, Juárez is proud of the function’s contribution on many important cases and transactions, stating ‘there are many but I would say that the financing transactions of different wind farms in Argentina, as well as the previous bidding processes to win and obtain the permits for such farms were the most important challenges in the last year’.