Doing business in Argentina
Argentina is the eighth-largest country worldwide, and the second largest in Latin America. Being the world’s 27th largest economy, and the second-largest economy in South America. Argentina boasts plenty of natural resources, a highly-educated population of over 40 million people, the inexistence of racial, religious or geopolitical conflicts, the highest English speaking proficiency in the region, a wide school offer with international curricula, and the main metropolitan areas with lower pollution levels than most of Latin America urban center. Argentina´s capital city, Buenos Aires, is itself the 13th largest economy among the world’s cities.
With a lot of untapped markets and fields, doing business in Argentina may be very promising and
Castro Sammartino & Pierini is specially prepared to assist all kind of foreign investors and businesspersons, wishing to do business in Argentina, whether they are big multinational companies or small ventures.
Our advice covers the whole stages of setting up a new business in Argentina. From choosing the best legal vehicle, registering a foreign company with the Public Registry to allow it to be a shareholder or partner of a domestic company, incorporating an affiliated or subsidiary company, registering a branch, helping to lease or buy the premises, applying for trademark protection, hiring personnel, entering into commercial contracts, etcetera, our services are broad and comprehend both the set up and the day-to-day company´s legal needs.
We also assist foreign companies and businesspersons with preliminary agreements (letter of intentions, memorandums of understanding, term– sheets), due diligence, and the negotiation, drafting, and closing of stock purchase agreements to take interest in an existing local company.
Castro Sammartino & Pierini with your company, to be better, always.
From our Legal Blog
Mergers and Acquisitions in Argentina: due diligence and hidden labor liabilities. A landmark decision from the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice helps to spot them
Mergers and Acquisitions in Argentina: due diligence and hidden labor liabilities. A landmark decision from the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice helps to spot them
In a recent landmark decision dated 24 April 2018, the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice (Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación, or CSJN), in re Rica, Carlos Martín c. Hospital Alemán y otros s/ Despido, addressed the issue of formally independent service providers
Update on the employer´s payroll contributions for social security in Argentina
By Law Number 27,430, published on the Official Gazette on 29 December 2017 , the federal government introduced significant reforms to the tax system, among them modifications to the employer´s payroll contributions for social security in Argentina
Income tax on the indirect assignment of assets located in Argentina: streamlining the definition of Argentine source income for non-residents
By Law Number 27,430, Argentina has enacted significant tax reforms, being one of them the streamlining of the definition of Argentine source incomes to include those incomes proceeding from the indirect assignment of assets located in Argentina under certain conditions
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