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Alfredo Arocena

Alfredo Arocena

Work Department

Corporate and Banking Law and the Projects and Infrastructure departments

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Alfredo is a senior associate of the Montevideo office.  He is a member of the Corporate and Banking Law and the Projects and Infrastructure departments.

Alfredo focuses on corporate and financing transactions, especially mergers and acquisitions and project finance, and in public procurement processes (particularly public-private partnerships and concession contracts). In his daily practice, Alfredo advises on corporate and commercial law matters both to local and foreign clients from a variety of sectors, including, energy, infrastructure, agribusiness, finance, and services.

Alfredo is a co-author of the Uruguayan Private Equity chapter of the Global Practice Guide 2023 of Chambers & Partners.

In 2022 Alfredo worked in the Dentons’ offices of Bolivia, where he acquired good comprehension of such market and developed strong contacts with clients of such office, especially bilateral investors of Uruguay and Bolivia.

Experience Vesta Software Group: Advised the client in the acquisition of Datalogic, Uruware and GSoft, Uruguayan companies from the IT services and software development sectors. Consortium Copetrol, Acodike and Elindur Investment: Advised the consortium comprised of Paraguayan Copetrol, Acodike and Argentinian Elindur Investment in the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Axion Comercialización de Combustibles y Lubricantes S.A., a company engaged in the business of distribution and sale of fuel and lubricants which counts with a network of 98 gas stations. Marfrig: Advised the meat processor in the contracts related to its project to increase its Tacuarembó, Uruguay, slaughterhouse in the context of a US$50M investment. Banco Santander anc Caixabank: advising the financial institutiones, as local counsel, in the debt refinancing of Ladaner S.A., a company which owns Cerro Grande Wind Farm (50 MW) located in the department of Cerro Largo, Uruguay. Sacyr Concesiones, Saceem, NGE Concessions, and Berkes: Advised the construction companies in the bidding, project development and financing of the Central Railway Project (investment of approximately USD 1.1 billion).

Languages

English and Spanish

Education

Queen Mary University of London, 2019, Master of Laws (LLM)

University of Montevideo (Uruguay), 2015, Lawyer

Mentions

Uruguay

Banking and finance

Uruguay

Corporate and M&A

Uruguay

Projects and energy