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
Single-shareholder company in Argentina
The Argentine Legal Regime will have major changes as from August 1st, 2015, when the new Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation (Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación or CCCN) becomes effective. The CCCN modifies and unifies the current Civil Code and Commercial...
Doing business in Argentina – procedures after registration of a company: Keeping the good standing
For Doing Business in Argentina, the Argentine Commercial Companies Law Nº 19,550 sets forth mostly imperative legal provisions, which by reasons of public order may not be modified by the partners of a company when they organize themselves executing the articles of...
Doing business in Argentina – Filing for incorporation of a company
In previous parts of this report on Doing Business in Argentina, we have already explained that to operate in Argentina foreign businesses normally set up a local subsidiary (being the Sociedad Anónima, or SA, the legal vehicle most commonly chosen)[1], with two...
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