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Joaquín Eppens Echagüe

Joaquín Eppens Echagüe

Work Department

Corporate / M&A

Position

Partner

Career

Joaquín is a transactional lawyer with almost 20 years’ experience helping funds, multinationals, and financial institutions with their most relevant M&A and financial transactions.

Joaquín has also had the chance to advise clients on broader general business law matters, which have honed and supplemented his transactional practice, giving him a broader vision and resources to deal with issues coming up on his transactional practice. Joaquin is also a leading practitioner in dealing with the peculiarities and complexities of Argentina’s foreign currency exchange markets and disciplinary proceedings initiated by the Argentina Central Bank.

Aside from his main practice areas, Joaquín has also had extensive experience in private equity deals and real estate developments, having advised Argentina´s largest industrial developer and landlord for more than a decade in all aspects of the land procurement, financing, construction and placement of more than half a million square meters of triple A warehousing.

For almost 20 years he has worked as an associate and later partner at top tier firms in Argentina, leading M&A transactions as well as a wide array of financial deals including syndicated loans, multilateral´s lending, project finance and corporate bond issues, and their restructurings.

Languages

Spanish / English

Education

LLM International Business Law with a Specialization in Banking, Finance and Insurance Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2023-2024 (Summa Cum Laude) Postgraduate Degree in Banking and Capital Markets Law (Cum Laude), Universidad Austral, Argentina – 2022 Postgraduate Degree in Oil and Gas Law (Cum Laude), Universidad Austral, Argentina – 2021 Law Degree, Universidad Catolica de Salta, Argentina