With an over 100 year history and a workforce of approximately 2,800 employees, Grupo Peñaflor is the top producer of wine in Argentina and one of the top ten wine producers in the world. Dealing with a plethora of legal challenges arising along the group’s diverse operations, the company’s legal team – led by one of Argentina’s leading consumer sector counsel Sebastián Baglietto – is involved in everything from product regulation to international distribution agreements, brand and marketing issues to liaising with state and industry bodies. Under Baglietto’s 19-year tenure at the company, the legal team has recorded a great number of impressive transactional victories, culminating in a landmark 2015 deal to buy Diageo’s wine interests in Argentina. On this transaction Baglietto’s team impressed with their handling of complexities of negotiating cross-border M&A and licensing agreements, as well as their general knowledge of the regional markets.