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

Entrepreneurs in Argentina: tax benefits for investors

The recently enacted Law Number 27,349 on Support for Entrepreneurial Activities (Ley de Apoyo al Capital Emprendedor or LACE) is aimed to provide a legal framework to foster and fund entrepreneurship in Argentina. The LACE has established special tax benefits for investors, a crowd funding system and the Simplified Corporation as a new company type . All in all, the LACE will enhance the venture capital industry in Argentina, providing the myriad of high-skill entrepreneurs the country has with their most scarce resource up to know: funding. Following, we will summarize the tax benefits created to benefit those investing in entrepreneurs in Argentina

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Simplified Corporations in Argentina: a new and streamlined legal vehicle to do business

On April 22, 2017, it was published in the National Official Gazette Law Number 27,349 on Support for Entrepreneurial Activities (Ley de Apoyo al Capital Emprendedor or LACE). Outstanding among its different provisions is the introduction of a new company type: the Simplified Corporation, also known as Simplified Joint Stock Company or Simplified Shares Company (Sociedad por Acciones Simplificada or SAS by its Spanish acronym).

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Security interests in Argentina and other legal tools to enforce collection of debts. A brief for foreign lenders

Security interests in Argentina may be structured through different agreements according to the nature of the assets included as collaterals.
The Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation (Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación or CCCN) makes a distinction between personal or movable property and real property or real estate (Articles Number 225 and following).

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