Title: Corporate / Business Litigation

Profile

Damian Fernando Beccar Varela

Senior Partner

 

Damian Beccar Varela

Firm: Estudio Beccar Varela
Address:Edificio Republica, Tucuman 1,
3rd Floor
Buenos Aires C1049AAA
Argentina
Phone:+54 11 4379-6834
Fax:+54 11 4379-4760
Email:Send an Email
Local Time:Sun. 05:05
Web site: Direct Page

Profile

His personal specialty practice areas include international business transactions, finance agreements and Corporate Law (Mergers and Acquisitions). He was a head member of the team of lawyers during the years when his Firm was the Argentine Special Counsel of the international banking community in respect of the renegotiations of the Argentine foreign debt and led the majority of the teams that dealt with the corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, complex financing agreements and privatizations entrusted to Estudio Beccar Varela, many of which were the largest deals on Argentine records.

 

Languages: Spanish, English, French and Italian.
Birth Information: San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 27, 1943.
ISLN: 1234
Joined the Law Firm in: 1967

 

Areas of Practice

 

Main Focus: International, Banking, M&A, Insurance

  • Agency and Distributorship
  • Agency Law
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Arbitration / Mediation
  • Banking
  • Business Litigation
  • Commercial Law
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Communications
  • Contract Law
  • Corporate and Business
  • Corporate Litigation
  • Credit
  • Distributorship Law
  • Education
  • Ethics
  • Expert Witness
  • Financial Litigation
  • Financial Planning
  • Financial Services
  • Foreign Investment
  • General Practice
  • Government
  • Insolvency
  • Insurance
  • International Law
  • International Trade
  • Joint Ventures
  • Legal Economics
  • Licensing
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Practice Management
  • Privatization
  • Project Financing
  • Securities
  • Social Security
  • Taxation
  • Telecommunications

 

Professional Career

 

Significant Accomplishments

A grandson of the Firm's founder, he is partner of the Firm since 1971. In 1986 he was elected Senior Partner (Chairman of the Committee) of the Firm and continues to discharge this position. In such capacity his principal activity relates to the coordination and quality assurance of the professional work of the Firm. In 1967/68 he practised as a foreign associate at the firm of Casey Lane & Mittendorff in New York, N.Y. During 1969 he was the Director of Hearings assisting the Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1972 he was foreign visiting assistant professor and at the same time attended graduate courses at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.


Professional Associations

  • International Bar Association

Bar Admission

Colegio de Abogados de la ciudad de Buenos Aires (member of the Board, 1976-1978).
Club de Abogados de Empresa (member of the Board, from 1980 to date).
International Bar Association.

 

Education


Argentine Catholic University (Lawyer, 1967).
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1972).