• Practice Areas

    Practice Areas

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  • ENERGY AND OIL & GAS

    ENERGY AND OIL & GAS

    • Commercial and regulatory matters.
    • Relationship with national and provincial authorities and filings with the relevant registries .
    • Competitive bidding processes.
    • Oil contracts (joint ventures, assignment of permits and concessions, purchase and sale of hydrocarbons, marketing agreements, transportation contracts, easements, oil service contracts)
    • Renegotiation of concessions.
    • Legal assistance during due diligence processes.
    • Upstream and hydrocarbon transportation projects.
    • Relationship with surface owners and service providers.

    Bazán, Cambré & Orts is a leading Firm in the Energy and Oil & Gas sector, recognized as such by specialized publications such as "Chamber & Partners." We advise our clients in all segments of the industry, encompassing upstream, midstream and downstream, as well as companies providing hydrocarbon-related services. In this context, we deal with almost all types of matters on a daily basis, thus gaining different perspectives of the industry. We provide our services on the basis of a broad understanding of the business and a global overview of the sector.

    Our Energy and Oil & Gas department handles regulatory matters and business transactions as part of its daily work. We regularly work on contracts for the provision of oil and gas services, agreements for the purchase and sale of hydrocarbons, transportation agreements, easement contracts with surface land owners, etc.

    The Firm also advises mining companies and specializes in nuclear and renewable energy.

    We advise our clients on a regular basis on compliance with environmental regulations, management of environmental contingencies, handling of environmental registrations before the competent enforcement authorities and preparation of environmental due diligence processes, with special expertise in natural resources and energy-related projects.

  • CONTRACT LAW

    CONTRACT LAW

    • Sale-Purchase Agreements.
    • Construction contracts.
    • Marketing Agreements.
    • Service and supply contracts.
    • Complex contracts (EPC).
    • Oil contracts (JVOA, assignment of permits and concessions, purchase and sale of hydrocarbons, marketing contracts, and transportation agreements).

    The Firm also specializes in contract matters covering all aspects of the ordinary business of the company. From the pre-contractual stage, through the formalization of letters of intent, memorandums of understanding and confidentiality agreements, to the stage of negotiation, drafting, review and execution of all types of civil and commercial contracts.

    We are also active in the performance stage of the contract and throughout its life, seeking to ensure that the parties act in accordance with the agreed terms. We provide answers, solutions and strategies in the face of potential breaches.

    We have extensive expertise in complex contracts, such as construction and Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) agreements.

    In the field of Oil & Gas, we are regularly involved in contracts for the provision of oil and gas services, contracts for the purchase and sale of hydrocarbons, transportation contracts, easement agreements with surface owners, etc

  • CORPORATE LAW

    CORPORATE LAW

    Incorporation of all types of companies, associations and foundations, and registration with the relevant bodies.

    • Foreign investments.
    • Change of corporate officers, capital increases and reductions, mergers, transformations, dissolution and winding-up of companies.
    • General advice on corporate matters.
    • Shareholder agreements.
    • Corporate conflicts
    • Design, drafting and implementation of integrity programs.
    • Advice on compliance matters.

    We work in close collaboration with our clients in the design of the most convenient legal structure for the organization of their business scheme and the development of their activities. We also provide advice on all aspects related to the corporation’s life and planning.

    Our corporate department maintains constant and seamless contact with our clients and is actively involved not only in the stage of the company formation, through the drafting of bylaws and shareholders’ agreements, but also in the day-to-day handling of the company’s management and control bodies and relevant filings with the corporate authorities. Our work encompasses a wide range of business entities, from family-owned or closely held companies to corporations having complex structures, as well as dealing with conflicts among partners and shareholde

  • ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

    ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

    • Comprehensive advice on biddings and public procurement contracts.
    • Public works contracts.
    • Contracts subject to the Public-Private Partnership scheme.
    • Public works and services concessions.
    • Regulation of public services and activities of public interest.
    • Sanctions imposed by public entities.
    • Claims before administrative entities.
    • Judicial proceedings.

    The Firm is involved in all the stages of the bidding processes, from the analysis and objections to the respective bidding terms and conditions, to the preparation and presentation of the tenders, the questioning of the awards and the execution of the relevant contracts.

    We also provide advice on matters related to public works, public work concessions and, more recently, contracts subject to the Public-Private Partnership regulations.

    The Firm has vast experience in regulatory matters concerning public services and activities of public interest (telecommunications, broadcasting, transportation and distribution of electricity and gas, etc.).

    We advise and represent our clients in administrative proceedings before government agencies and judicial proceedings before the contentious-administrative courts both at the federal level and in the City of Buenos Aires, filing claims against the State, actions for protection (amparo), precautionary measures and declaratory actions.

    It is particularly important to highlight the Firm's experience in the administrative and judicial challenge of fines imposed by government entities within the framework of a contractual relationship with the State or for allegation of non-compliance with the regulations issued by the State.

    The Firm has also acted in Antitrust matters, providing advice to companies facing charges for acts allegedly in breach of the competition, in the preparation and presentation of the corresponding answers.

  • LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW

    LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW

    • Collective and individual labor law.
    • Labor litigation and settlement (SECLO).
    • Reorganizations and restructuring.
    • Senior management terminations.
    • Labor law counseling in Due Diligence processes.

    Our Firm has extensive experience in the field of labor law. It regularly advises national and foreign companies operating in Argentina in individual and collective labor law matters. We assist our clients with their daily needs, developing strategies to avoid conflicts through preventive advice and assessments, in continuous contact with the human resources department of the company.

    In addition, the Firm regularly participates in several of its clients’ transactions related to the employment contract, also representing them before the administrative and judicial authorities in all kinds of proceedings. We advise our clients on the types of employment contracts that best suit their needs. We draft all types of employment contracts and provide advice on the granting of incentives and benefits. We also support our clients in the imposition of sanctions and dismissal of employees, identifying those strategies that best suit each case.

    We advise on collective conflicts and actively participate in the negotiations of collective labor agreements, especially those applicable to the oil and gas industry. Our lawyers attend all sessions and work together with representatives of the Chambers of the industry.

  • JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS

    JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS

    • Damages and breach of contract.
    • Labor claims.
    • Inheritance & successions.

    The Firm has significant litigation experience and regularly handles a large number of complex labor, administrative, civil and commercial matters before national, federal and provincial courts, at all instances. We are involved from the preliminary stage of definition of the legal strategy, exchange of letters and mediation, until the initiation of the judicial proceedings, rendering of the final judgment and its subsequent enforcement.

    We also advise our individual clients in relation to their personal needs such as family, inheritance and succession law

  • MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

    MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

    • Mergers & Acquisitions.
    • Corporate reorganizations

    The Firm has participated in a wide number of mergers, acquisitions of stock packages, joint ventures and corporate reorganizations in different sectors. We advise our clients during these times of change and actively take part in the negotiation process.

  • REAL STATE AND ESTATE PLANNING

    REAL STATE AND ESTATE PLANNING

    • Purchase, sale and development of commercial, residential and agricultural real estate ventures.
    • Hotel operations.
    • Construction and lease contracts.
    • Division of rural estate.

    The Firm regularly advises companies or individual entrepreneurs in their real estate transactions, focusing on all legal aspects related to the acquisition and lease of land and property and related matters. The Firm also provides advice in the production stage and in the construction of major real estate developments. We actively participate in family estate planning, including spin-offs or mergers of companies acting as owners or operators of the real estate, and other related family matters as anticipation and prevention of future inheritance proceedings.

  • FINANCIAL LAW AND FOREIGN TRADE

    FINANCIAL LAW AND FOREIGN TRADE

    Starting at the alliance celebrated with Claudia Orselli and Karina Larrañaga at the end of 2021, our firm provides a wide coverage of legal services related to Financing, Customs and Foreign Trade Law including the following:

    • Controls and foreign exchange market;
    • Regulations of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) and the financial system in general;
    • Regulations of the Financial Information Unit (UIF);
    • Requirements for information and defense in proceedings initiated by the Central Bank for alleged violations to the Criminal Exchange Controls Regime;
    • Enforcement of Anti-Money Laundering Law;
    • Advice to companies and financial entities, including liquidations of financial entities;
    • Negotiation and execution of local loans and debt refinancing;
    • Guaranty and real estate trusts;
    • Tax planning (national, provincial and municipal taxes);
    • Advice on Customs Law (including defense on proceedings initiated by Customs);
    • Appeals before the Federal Public Revenue Administration and the National Tax Court.