Who We Are
We are a law firm of over 50 years’ experience specializing in business law. We are known for the personal treatment we give to our clients, the quality of our legal services, and the agility with which we handle our clients’ most important matters.
More informationComprehensive Counsel for Businesses
We get to know our clients profoundly, advising them from seeds of their business to its full flowering. Our work is focused just as much on the day-to-day needs of the company as on eventual litigation, from a distinctly commercial angle.
Civil Law
Estudio Rinaldi provides legal services in everything from advice and support on drafting real estate contracts, evictions, and mortgage foreclosures to representation of plaintiffs and defendants in torts and other kinds of civil suits. We likewise provide counsel and act in court for clients in cases involving family law—we are specialists in divorce, alimony and child support, and adoptions, as well as wills, trusts, and estates.
Labor Law and Social Security
Among our attorneys are professionals dedicated directly to providing daily assistance to the human resources departments of the corporations we advise. We work actively to achieve efficient, practical solutions in scenarios of individual conflict. Our Labor Law department stands out in collective bargaining controversies, where we provide counsel, propose solutions, and represent companies before government regulatory bodies and union representatives.
Sports Law
Our services include advising and event planning; negotiation of contracts with clubs, agents, and sponsors; representation and advocacy before various national and international sporting authorities; drafting and managing publicity and sponsorship contracts; providing legal counsel to athletes and professionals; advising investors and agents; event production; management of broadcast rights and licenses for television, Internet, and streaming, and more.
Consumer Protection
From the corporate perspective, we participate in analyzing contracts connected to consumer relationships, review of standard clauses and contracts of adhesion, adapting international contractual standards to meet Argentine consumer protection norms, advising on defective product recalls and associated civil liability, pre-launch review of our clients’ advertising campaigns, etc.
Banking and Finance Law
We provide integrated legal assistance on matters connect to banking, financing and loans to public and/or private entities, exchange regulations, imports and exports, secured transactions, securitization, and fiduciary activity. We advise numerous banks and financial entities on judicial and extrajudicial collections, and our attorneys have taken active roles in the Latin American Federation of Banks and the Committee of Banking Lawyers of Argentina.
Administrative Law
We provide advice in matters related to the legal structuring of processes for selection of contractors, public tenders and requests for proposals, direct contracting by the Government, administrative contracts, and commercial regulations and restrictions. In addition, our services include counsel in contested matters of administrative and constitutional law in both administrative and judicial fora, advice on regulatory issues and those related to administrative law in mergers and acquisitions, audits concerning regulatory and administrative matters, regulated activities (companies engaged in public services, including ports, railroads, highways, airports, health, and providers of goods and services to the state), public works, and infrastructure projects.
Anticorruption Compliance Unit
We have professionals who specialize in the development, implementation, and auditing of compliance and integrity programs (risk analysis, policies and practices, training, etc.), carrying out internal investigations and remedial measures, anticorruption-related background checks, anticorruption due diligence in mergers and acquisitions, and the evaluation of specific actions under various applicable anticorruption regimes. We also provide advice on questions of the complex interaction between local anticorruption regulations and relevant foreign laws such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery Act 2010, as well as the design and implementation of comprehensive legal strategies for managing corruption-related cases in court and before regulatory authorities.
Fintech
We have extensive experience within the cypto/fintech ecosystem. Over several years we have advised clients engaged in providing financial services through new technologies (including both regulated and unregulated companies and persons). Our goal is to provide integrated multidisciplinary counsel, grounded in our deep understanding of the economic, legal, and regulatory aspects underlying each business model within this flourishing industry. We have taken active part in the creation and counseling of companies involved in activities including trading, cryptocurrency mining, tokenization, and the different alternatives provide by a still-nascent industry with tremendous growth potential.
Collection Services
We offer a complete debt collection service, including all stages of the process (on-time collections, overdue payment management, and enforcement). Working as a legal team we consider all the ramifications of unfulfilled obligations (delinquent debts) and advise our clients on the distinct alternatives for pursuing recovery. This affords the client an efficient and effective collections service, reducing costs as well
Our Philosophy
Service. Transparency. Effectiveness.
Our passion for this profession, our experience, and our vocation to service allow us to build a relationship with our clients through a profound identification with them and their business. This creates the connection necessary to provide effective, satisfying solutions.
Professionals
Fabián Rinaldi
Naming partner Specialist in comprehensive counsel for businesses. International contracts and litigation. Sports law. frinaldi@estudiorinaldi.comRodrigo Menéndez
Partner Specialist in comprehensive counsel for businesses. International contracts and litigation. Sports law.Business labor law. rmenendez@estudiorinaldi.comSilvina Sarafian
Partner Specialist in comprehensive counsel for businesses. Contracts. Advisor in Labor Law and Labor Relations. ssarafian@estudiorinaldi.comAdriana Masciotra
Specialist in intellectual property and sports law. Head of Consumer Protection practice area. Advisor in family law. amasciotra@estudiorinaldi.comAlan Robinson
Consultant on United States law and its civil and criminal legal systems. Advisor on regulations, contracts, drafting and translations for the U.S. arobinson@estudiorinaldi.comAndrea Rotondo
Specialist in banking law. Head of Bankruptcy practice area. Advisor and coordinator in the areas of Consumer Protection, Fair Trade Law, and Advertising and Publicity. arotondo@estudiorinaldi.comFrancisco Montezemolo
Specialist in litigation and expert in family law and estates and inheritance practice. fmontezemolo@estudiorinaldi.comAgostina Nicora
Specialist in environmental law. Advisor in the areas of consumer protection, advertising and publicity, and antitrust law. anicora@estudiorinaldi.comJuan Manuel Naveira
Specialist in Administrative Law and Anti-Corruption Compliance. Comprehensive legal counsels to corporations. International contracts. jnaveira@estudiorinaldi.comMaría Valeria Moll
Business manager of Estudio Rinaldi and advisor on taxation and accounting matters. vmoll@estudiorinaldi.comOur Clients Include
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Our address:
- Av. Libertador 6810, Piso 18. C1429BMO Buenos Aires, Argentina
- (+54-11) 5628-4000 (+54-911) 4027-3106
- Info@estudiorinaldi.com