Estudio Jáuregui

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Estudio Jáuregui.

Was founded in 1972 by a group of professionals who, after several years of practice in the public sector, decided to focus their careers on the private sector and provide counsel to local companies and foreign investors.
We have been consultants to several government agencies, and have taken part in Argentine missions abroad, and in the drafting of tax and criminal laws and codes applicable to the privatization of state-owned companies. We have also participated in the boards of directors of Argentine and foreign companies. Our Firm has also worked in the telecommunications and Small Businesses area, specializing in Mutual Guarantee Companies. We have dealt with debt recovery for financial institutions and insurance companies, and pride ourselves on providing assistance with formal powers of attorney to three major banks of Argentina: Banco Nación- Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires and BBVA and to assist Bank of America (Bank Boston) before tax courts.

Dr. Román Guillermo Jáuregui.

Lawyer-graduated at Universidad de Buenos Aires UBA (1964). He has completed postgraduate courses at the Alcalá de Henares University, Madrid, Spain, and at Interamerican Defense College I.D.C., Fort Mac Nair, Washington D.C., U.S.A. He is the author of several technical and legal articles and books.
He has practiced as an attorney both in the private and public sector. At the Argentine Internal Revennue Service he held several executive positions of Chief of the Legal Division for the Tucumán Region (1970-1974); Training Chief (1968), Head of the Litigation Attorneys Department (1972 – 1976). He was a member of several Committees on Tax Reform of the Secretariat of Finance (1972 – 1976). Furthermore, he was a member of several foreign official missions. Responsible for Legal and Tax Analysis reporting to the Ministry of Economy (1972); Legal Advisor of the Government of San Luis and coauthor with Ms Mavarrine, Esq., of the Project of Tax Code for the Province of Buenos Aires (1976). He worked as a Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Finance for the Government of the Dominican Republic (1977-1978), was President of the Arbitration Committee for Tax on Gross Income (since 1978 -2008), was member of the Commission for the Reform of the Penal Code (1995), Cabinet Advisor to the Secretary of Military Affairs of the Ministry of Defense (1997). He was Advisor to the Commission on Communications of the House of Representatives of the Argentine Republic since 1996 to 1998. He has taught many courses and lectured intensively in many institutions and furthermore he was Tax Law Professor at the Argentine Business University (UADE) and at the University of Buenos Aires, School of Law. He is a member of the Fiscal Studies Association and of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and was a member of their Executive Boards. At present he practices law actively and is the President of the consultants firm Estudio de Asesores S.A. (www.estudiodeasesores.com.ar) and Director of Bodega Noemia S.A. and Bodega Chacra S.A. (top argentine high quality wineries). He acts as legal attorney and legal advisor for national and international companies, and is also a member of several professional organizations. He acts currently with formal powers of attorney representing before courts three of the major local banks Banco Nacion- Banco Ciudad de Buenos Aires and BBVA and assists Bank of America (Bank Boston) on cases before tax courts.
President of Asociación Civil Gobierno Abierto. (Open Government Asociation – NGO www.asocgobiernoabierto.org) and member of The Advocacy Group TAG (www.theadvocacygroup.org), and of Red Argentina Americana de Liderazgo (www.argentinareal.org) and of International Alumni (www.alumni.state.gov).

GLE CONSORCIO DE COOPERACION.

Estudio Jáuregui is member of GLE Consorcio de Cooperación.
GLE is a group of four law firms: Estudio García Lema, founded by Alberto Manuel García Lema who was Deputy Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice and former Attorney General, with extensive academic and publishing experience and intensive administrative law practice; Estudio Ostrovsky & Romano, specialized in alternative dispute resolution methods, to manage disputes and commercial contract (UTES) consortiums or Joint Ventures and Estudio Bougain, specialized in commercial law.
This group offers its professional services in a broad range of areas of practice through several alliances, based on the prestige, technical knowledge and experience of its partners, associate attorneys, and highly qualified external consultants.
While maintaining their own structures, the firms are integrated at a professional and human level, guaranteeing full, permanent and reliable cooperation in benefit of clients.

Main Areas of Practice

Strategic Legal Counsel.

The global vision, which distinguishes us from other firms, is that business legal issues must be solved by linking public law branches (constitutional, administrative or tax law, among others) and social law (labor law and provisional duties) to traditional private law branches (civil, commercial and criminal law), as well as those of international law, communications, environmental law, natural resources and collective rights.

Counsel

advice to banks, industrial and service companies, business chambers, public entities, international entities and individuals.
Our methodology, through the work of our partners and specialized teams, provides each client with the analysis and the definition of a strategy and the necessary tools to implement it. Providing legal advice on complex problems presents a challenge to creativity, and playing an active role in the negotiations necessary to reach the most appropriate solutions is of paramount importance.

Conflict Management

we encourage national and international commercial arbitration. Therefore, it deals with cases within the jurisdiction of several arbitration tribunals in Argentina and abroad.

Lawsuits.

GLE deems lawsuits as a last resort alternative. However, it can also be seen as a negotiation instrument, save for exceptional circumstances. Nevertheless, GLE’s Firms ensure high efficiency in lawsuits, including the following:
I. Proceedings before the National Supreme Court and the Supreme Courts of all the provinces, and appeals from these provincial courts to the National Supreme Court.
II. Administrative Proceedings, especially within the federal jurisdiction and the jurisdictions of the City and the Province of Buenos Aires.
III. Tax Proceedings before the National Tax Court.
IV. Defense in Criminal Business Law and Criminal Tax Law matters.
V. Commercial and civil proceedings before courts, especially in bankruptcy cases, mortgages and debt collection.
VI. Class actions and consumers law.
VII Legal Audits: we have a legal auditing area with professionals specially trained in this practice.

Alliances

At the national level, GLE’s main alliance is the one established with Estudio Gil Lavedra, which allows us to rely on the support of a traditional firm specialized in criminal law. Ricardo Gil Lavedra has been Deputy Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, Judge of the Cámara Nacional de Apelaciones en lo Criminal y Correccional of the City of Buenos Aires, National Minister of Justice, ad hoc Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Coordinator of the Citizens’ Security Discussion Forum and Vice President of the United Nations Committee against Torture.
On business and corporate law matters we have a strong alliance with Estudio Richards –Brea –Ricciardi Lima (www.rbrl.com.ar). This firm and their partners are very skilled on tax and legal “due diligences”, tax matters and mergers & acquisitions’.
In the U.S. we have a long dated alliance with the telecomunications specialized firm Blooston, Mordkosky, Dickens, Duff & Prendergast. (Mr. Benjamin Dickens www.bloostonlaw.com).
Mr. Román Guillermo Jáuregui is member of TAG The Advocacy Group (www.theadvocacygroup.org).

Consultants

GLE’s areas of specialization fully meet the needs of all its clients. Yet, on occasions it is important to resort to the services of the best external consultants on related areas. As a result, we work with prestigious professionals with vast experience, who render their services when required. These professionals are:

Dr. Douglas Elespe

He presided the Argentine Institute for Finance Executives, the Certified International Investment Analyst Academic Council in Argentina (Associated to the ACIIA worldwide). He was Director President of the local branch of Thomson Reuters La Ley.

Dr. Carlos Alberto Etala

He is an external consultant of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and UNICEF. He has been: judge; National Director of the Labor Authority; Vice Minister of Labor and Director of the Labor Law Area of the Argentine Legal Digest.

Dr. Diego Ramiro Guelar

He was Argentina’s Ambassador in the European Union (Brussels) for six years (1989-1995), in Brazil (1996-1997) and twice in the United States of America (1997-1999 and in 2002).
He is a member of the Institute for European-Latin American Relations (IRELA), the Center for Studies about Regional Integration (CEFIR) in Montevideo, the Center of Strategic International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. and the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI).
He is the Secretary for Foreign Relations of PRO, a very important national political party.

Dr. Vicente Jorge Zírpoli

He has worked as the Legal Affairs Manager of the Pérez Companc group, and has been the Corporate Manager of Legal and Regulatory Framework Issues of Telecom Argentina. He is the President and Academic Director of the Argentine Association of Telecommunications Law.

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