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An Italian-Argentine conglomerate with headquarters in both Milan and Buenos Aires, Techint is composed of six main companies with an international reach and now has a workforce of over 50,000 permanent employees. The Argentine legal team is led by the highly decorated legal director Fernando Jorge Mantilla who has held the role since 2015, and whose long tenure with the company first began in 1996. The legal department of the Techint group of companies is composed of approximately 45 lawyers (a mixture of experienced and junior qualified lawyers) and around 20 non-lawyers (paralegals and assistants).

The team also draws on the experience of former legal directors in the role of advisors, Horacio de las Carreras and Ignacio Casares, both former directors of the legal department until 2016. All of this combines to produce a team that has ‘evolved from basic legal departments to an essential function of a business that provides a wide variety of legal and commercial advice’ according to an internal source. A range of senior counsel lead the various disciplines that make up the team’s structure, the aforementioned De las Carreras is in charge of the corporate law and capital markets area, whilst other legal heads take charge of legal departments spanning engineering and construction (Diego Zonis), oil and gas (Mariano Vitullo), international contracts (Alfonso de Laferrere), litigation (Enrique Milone), employment and labour law (Julio Cordero), tax law (Juan José Godoy), commercial contracts (Martin Arriola) and new ventures (Fernando Moreno).

Speaking to the many business affecting transactions the team has worked on recently, the team acted as Argentine in-house counsel to Techint’s oil and gas interest Tecpetrol, where it offered of US$500m worth of senior notes under a US$1bn authorised program in full compliance with the US Securities Act. The team also acted as in-house counsel to Techint Engineering & Construction in a consortium between Macquarie Capital and Techint, formed to acquire and obtain project finance for a combined cycle power plant in Mexico. The consortium successfully acquired the 907MW power generation site – referred to as Norte III – from distressed Spanish technology solutions company Abengoa. In 2016, the Techint Group entered the mining industry through Tenova’s acquisition of several companies operating in the field. The company’s current position in the Argentine market was achieved in no small part thanks to huge investment the past decade.

The team has been present in every step of this expansion, and with the motto of ‘risk mitigation [as] the essence of the legal department’s function within the Techint group of companies’, has helped towards making it one of the leading conglomerates in Latin America.

 

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