The United States is one of Argentina’s leading trade partners. Our firm provides legal advice and assistance in connection with international transactions with a U.S. nexus. Our U.S. Desk is formed by a multi-disciplinary team of attorneys with strong credentials and experience in the U.S. market and substantial knowledge of the American legal system, with several professionals admitted to practice in New York.

Members of our U.S Desk actively participate in legal organizations and conferences with U.S. ties, including the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association, and, locally, the American Chamber of Commerce.

Our team of lawyers is able to seamlessly provide our clients with top-notch bilingual legal support. We regularly assist local or multinational companies doing business in the United States, as well as U.S. clients investing in Argentina in a wide range of industry and sectors, in connection with a variety of matters, including corporate law and M&A, international contracts and trade, including import/export regulations, finance, real estate, taxation and wealth protection/trusts and estates, employment and immigration, litigation, intellectual property, dispute resolution and white-collar defense and investigations.

Our U.S. Desk has been involved, among others, in the following landmark transactions:

• Tenaris’s US$ 1.2 billion acquisition of U.S. steel pipe manufacturer IPSCO Tubulars.
• NYSE-listed Union Acquisition Corp.’s share exchange with Bioceres, a leading Latin American agricultural biotech company.
• Tenaris’s US$ 330 million sale of its U.S. electrical conduit business to Nucor Corporation.
• US$ 677 million secondary public offering of Ternium’s ADRs and concurrent repurchase of shares by Ternium and its controlling shareholder.
• Tenaris’s US$ 1.1 billion sale of its U.S. pressure control business to General Electric.
• Ternium’s US$730 million sale of certain U.S. subsidiaries to BlueScope.
• Tenaris’s US$ 2.1 billion acquisition of U.S. premium connections manufacturer and its related financing.
• Tenaris’s US$ 3.185 billion acquisition of U.S. tube producer Maverick Tube Corporation and its related financing.
• Ternium’s US$ 571 million IPO and concurrent NYSE listing.
• Tenaris’s US$ 2 billion multijurisdictional exchange offer and concurrent listing in NYSE, Mexico, Argentina and Italy.

In addition, our U.S. desk advises clients on various legal matters:

• We regularly advice Luxembourg-based NYSE-listed companies, Tenaris and Ternium, on corporate governance matters subject to NYSE/SEC rules and regulations, including directors’ independence and qualifications, fiduciary duties and liabilities, executive compensation issues, business conduct, insider trading, compliance and disclosure procedures, conflicts of interest, related-party transactions, confidentiality duties, and shareholder claims.
• We help multinational clients in connection with the design and implementation of domestic and international regulatory planning and compliance programs and policies to prevent, detect and combat fraud, ethical misconduct, and other violations of laws and regulations, governing corporate activity, including to address FCPA requirements.
• Our professionals provide compliance due diligence and assist clients in internal and external corporate investigations in different business sectors, assisting clients in assessing and handling self-reporting issues and navigating through administrative, civil and criminal investigations or proceedings before public bodies.
• We assist our clients with the negotiation and drafting of a wide range of cross-border New York law-governed commercial agreements to address, including contracts for the sale and purchase of goods and services addressing export control regulations and anti-boycott restrictions, know-how and technology licensing agreements, agency and distribution agreements, and arrangements with escrow, fiduciary and other agents for various commercial and corporate purposes.