- Managing Partner: Felipe Dalgalarrando
- Senior Partner: Alberto Dalgalarrando Snr
- Number of Partners: 4
- Number of Lawyers: 11
THE FIRM: The firm has a strong reputation inside the legal market, standing out for the quality of its professional services and the commitment towards its clients. Dalgalarrando, Romero y Cía. advises local and global clients on a wide variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, securities, banking and finance, cross-border transactions, mining, arbitration and litigation, antitrust, tax, real estate investments, labor law, electricity law and telecommunications. The firm strives to assist its clients in achieving their business objectives in a complex legal environment.Obtaining solid and at same time fast and creative legal results, the serious and accurate evaluation of risks, and the implementation of strategies founded in long and deep professional experience constitute the dynamic of the firm’s work. The members of the firm are a first-rate group of reputed lawyers, having developed their practice in several areas of law.Many of its lawyers have practiced law in the United States and Europe enabling the firm to develop strong working relationships with major international law firms.
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE:
Antitrust: One of the firm’s goals is to ensure that its client’s transactions meet antitrust and regulatory requirements and that their business practices abide by such growing sets of rules. The firm represents its clients before antitrust courts and authorities and also helps them to structure transactions in order to comply with the antitrust regulations that may be applicable in each case.
Arbitration & Litigation: The Arbitration and Litigation team has extensive experience handling a wide variety of complex business litigation matters, arbitrations and mediations, before local and international courts, tribunals and authorities.The team’s reputation is based on a thorough and completework, performed by seasoned lawyers,which closely abides by the rules of ethics and standards of the practice. The firm’s experience encompasses all kind of disputes including all major fields of law such as commercial, civil, family, labour, tax, financial, corporate, administrative, antitrust, environmental, and intellectual property law, among others.
Banking & Finance: The banking and finance practice is one of the highlights of the firm.The firm has experience advising a wide variety of clients in this area, including domestic and international financial institutions involved in cross-border financings, project financings, letter of credit facilities, regulated industry financings, recapitalisation financings, importexport transactions, leveraged acquisitions, among others. The team is experienced in representing borrowers, lenders, participants, agents in bilateral and syndicated loan facilities, both secured and unsecured. In addition, the firm provides advice to clients in a wide range of banking regulation, private banking and exchange regulation matters. This unique depth of expertise enables us to provide tailor-made legal services as required by the needs of each client.
Capital Markets: The firm’s experience allows to advise issuers, underwriters, agents, and investors in a wide array of transactions, including initial public offerings, placement of equity and debt securities, placement of depositary receipts, and private placements, among others. The expertise of the team in these transactions is enhanced by a close team work with other practice areas of the firm, enabling to provide the best strategic advice for clients seeking efficient and comprehensive legal services. In addition, the team is well acquainted with the latest trends and practices in international capital markets transactions.
Labour Law: The firm proactively helps clients avoid costly labour disputes through carefully drafted employment agreements, collective bargaining agreements, employee handbooks, as well as through the preparation of periodic client briefings. In addition, the firm’s expert team provides topquality advice on other labour and social security matters and has a wellgrounded reputation for representing employers in all phases of litigation involving employment-related disputes.
Merger & Acquisitions: The firm’s Mergers and Aquisitions team has a wide experience in a broad range of transactionss, including asset and stock purchases, acquisitions related to bankruptcy, cross-border M&A transactions, tender offers, joint ventures, private equity and leveraged buyout transactions, as well as public company acquisitions. Its involvement in these matters encompasses the negotiations, the legal review of the relevant companies and the preparation of the contracts required to achieve the client’s goals.
Mining & Natural Resources: The firm’s mining lawyers are constantly developing strategic advice regarding the business needs of precious and base minerals producers, representing various business entities: owners, manufacturers, lessees, lenders, consulting firms, construction companies, water companies, and private investors. Its team’s services include domestic and international mineral property development; mining acquisitions and permits; disputes and litigation; and lease and operational agreements, among other matters, covering a vast array of topics both in the metallic and non-metallic mining sectors.
Real Estate: The firm provides precise and specialsied real estate advice to owners, builders, developers, investors, financiers, as well as real estate managers. An expert team assists the firm’s clients in real estate finance, tax structuring, bankruptcy, development, foreign investment, land use and zoning, retail, leasing and litigation.
Tax: The firm draws on rich experience in advising its clients with respect to tax planning and implementation, both for individuals and corporations, local and international,with the aim of ensuring smooth and efficient operations for them. The firm’s practice deals effectively with other tax matters such as tax litigation, private banking tax advice, as well as real estate and employment related taxes.
LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and French.
CLIENTS: The firm advises large local and international companies. A complete list is available on request.