Manufacturing company 3M generates $30bn in annual sales, employs 90,000 people worldwide and produces more than 55,000 products. Operating as the organisation’s local subsidiary, 3M Argentina manufactures pharmaceutical products in...

Pharmaceutical multinational Abott’s Argentine legal function is tasked with providing overall legal support and maintaining the company’s regulatory and legislative strategy across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Besides demonstrating unrivalled expertise...

The Argentine legal department of pharmaceutical research and development company AbbVie has received a number of plaudits for its diligence and support on a myriad of issues in the healthcare...

German sports manufacturer adidas occupies a treasured position in Argentina as kit supplier to the national football team, a significant symbol of the country’s international prestige and appeal. Heading the...

Aerolíneas Argentinas is the largest airline in Argentina and is also the country’s flag carrier. It has been run by the Argentine government since late 2008, when the country regained...

Praised by nominators for the strength of the ‘internal relationships and interaction of the team’ which leads to the ‘efficient execution’ of its tasks, the legal team of agricultural commodities...

Aluar is a major aluminium smelting plant, one of the largest in South America and the only one in operation in Argentina. It is thus of immense importance from political,...

Operating as the local subsidiary of global financial services company American Express International, American Express Argentina is headquartered in Buenos Aires. The company provides various financial products for corporate and...

American Tower Corporation’s telecoms infrastructure operations in Argentina are supported expertly by a highly-regarded in-house legal team. Indeed, a nominating source described the team in Argentina as such: ‘The team...

Since being found in 2005, Avature has developed into a highly flexible enterprise platform for global talent acquisition and talent management, and the leading global provider of customer relationship management...

US multinational consumer products seller Avon has an established presence in Latin America and utilises an innovative four-person legal team based in Buenos Aires to cover Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and...

With its history dating as far back as 1878, Banco Ciudad has a long and established history in Argentina as a bank with a strong ethical outlook. Comprised of a...

As Argentina’s largest cooperatively-owned bank, Banco Credicoop has a legal function comprised of some of the country’s best legal talent. Amongst its longest-serving members are Vanesa Paula Sulam who joined...

A constituent of the MERVAL Index as well as being listed in Forbes Global 2000 Leading Companies, Banco Galicia is one of the premier financial institutions in the Argentine economy...

Banco Macro’s in-house legal team is packed with top-class legal talent, with multiple high-level in-house counsel with commercial experience, specialist legal advice and many years’ tenure with the company, ensuring...

The oldest banking institution in Argentina and currently one of the largest with total assets of US$12bn and market capitalisation of US$3.4bn as of May 2017, BBVA Francés is one...

Since its inception in 1913, the Argentine retailer BGH has experienced sustained growth, and currently occupies a privileged position among regional competitors. The legal team at the epicentre of the...

Pioneering biotechnology company Biogen’s cutting-edge remedies for neurological and neurodegenerative conditions in the Southern Cone are managed from its regional base in Argentina, which has been in operation since 2008....

An Argentine business operating in the biotechnology industry, Biosidus has activities that span the research and development of high quality biopharmaceuticals in the territories of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and...

Bridas Corporation is an independent oil and gas holding company based in Argentina, having been founded in 1948 it has since become the second largest producer of fossil fuels in...

Bunge’s history in Argentina dates as far back as 1884 when it launched a grain trading company in the expanding agribusiness market. Today it is one of the most important...

Cablevisión is one of Latin America’s largest cable television operators and one of the region’s main telecommunications companies, operating pay-tv, internet and telephone services across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. With...

Within their Argentina operations, Cargill’s in-house legal team is a very well embedded function with a track record of success and immense experience within the team. This is exemplified by...

Chilean based retailer Cencosud is the third largest listed retail company in Latin America with more than 1,000 stores across the region. It is a multi-format retail with presence in...

Central Puerto’s ‘reliable, competent and technically skilled’ legal team drew praise from nominators for its ability to seamlessly facilitate investments undertaken by the business in the national and international energy...

Since the 1980s, multinational energy corporation Chevron has been producing crude oil and natural gas in Argentina through its wholly owned subsidiary Chevron Argentina, and today is amongst the top...

The legal team at the property and causality insurer Chubb Argentina is comprised of three employees who report into the CEO and general counsel of the company in Latin America....

The March 2017 sale of Citi’s consumer business in Argentina had a big impact on the company’s legal team in the country. Explaining the effect of the function’s reduction in...

Clorox is an American multinational consumer and professional products business whose activities in Argentina comprise of offering product brands that improve, facilitate and make people’s lives more healthy. Coming in...

Coca-Cola FEMSA was set up in Argentina in October 1991, with Coca-Cola FEMSA de Buenos Aires being acquired by the company later in 1997. Coca-Cola FEMSA is the largest franchise...

Colgate-Palmolive, the US worldwide consumer products company focused on the production and distribution of household, healthcare and personal care products operates in Argentina through its subsidiary Colgate-Palmolive Argentina. Supporting the...

Founded in 1936, Argentine agricultural company Cresud has a long established presence in the country with a significant farmland portfolio. With a developing business abroad, the company’s legal team is...

“Argentine company Despegar.com is Latin America’s leading online travel agency and its legal team is currently led by the vastly experienced vice president, general counsel and corporate affairs director Juan...

American company DowDuPont is the world’s largest chemical company and was formed after the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont in August 2017. With both companies enjoying a long and...

Founded in 1992, Edenor is Argentina’s largest electricity distributor in terms of customer numbers and electricity sales figures. The company’s in-house legal team is comprised of a number of talented...

One of Argentina’s leading financial services companies, Efectivo Sí is notable for its financial assistance to customers for the purchase of motor vehicles, utilities, trucks and agricultural machinery. The legal...

State-owned firm ENARSA Argentina is engaged in the exploitation, production, industrialisation, transport and trade of petroleum, natural gas and electricity. The company’s legal team is led by legal manager Julia...

The day-to-day life of an in-house counsel at sports broadcasting giant is a hectic one, with securing broadcast rights, combating piracy efforts and securing ad-based revenue all taking on high...

In Argentina, Genneia is a leading supplier of energy solutions using the latest technologies for thermal equipment and a main investor in the country’s renewable energy projects. Legal affairs director...

The legal support for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)’s extensive portfolio of pharmaceutical product is complex, with expert management needed at all stages of the product lifecycle, from initial research and development to...

Software development services company GlobalLogic is extremely well-equipped with legal ability in Argentina, counting on a highly capable in-house legal team that is as impressive individually as it is collectively....

Globant employs a highly capable group of talented, knowledgeable and experienced lawyers, who possess unrivalled understanding of IT sector law in Argentina. Established in 2003, the Buenos Aires headquartered software...

Led by legal affairs manager Federico Gottlieb, the Grupo Arcor legal team is renowned for its expert support of the many business objectives of one of Argentina’s most valuable companies....

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...

Grupo Supervielle is a leading financial services holding company with operations spanning retail banking, corporate banking, insurance, treasury, consumer finance and asset management. Well-integrated with various business divisions across the...

Holcim is a pioneer company in the construction industry in Argentina, it produces and markets cement, concrete and stone aggregates. Its first Argentine cement manufacturing plant was built in 1930...

The HP legal team in Argentina is renowned for its cohesion and innovation in addition to its legal ability. Indeed, it was described by nominators as ‘a very integrated team,...

HSBC is the seventh largest bank in Argentina, it provides a full range of banking and financial products and services including consumer finance, insurance, investment and corporate banking to over...

Technology and computing giant IBM’s legal function in Argentina is a very important one for the global conglomerate in Latin America and further afield, with legal director for South Spanish...

An Argentine construction engineering company founded over 100 years ago, IMPSA has a number of different business interests in its home country and abroad, including renewable energy solutions that are...

AB InBev’s legal team has been almost entirely reorganised in the last two years. After recruiting Latin America South (LAS) legal director Nicolás Noro Villagra in July 2016, the multinational...

Inversiones y Representaciones (IRSA) is Argentina’s largest real estate developer, and the only company in its class that trades on the Buenos Aires Stock Market. It relies on a top-quality...

Kimberly-Clark’s seven-person legal function is described by nominating sources as having ‘strong corporate and compliance expertise’, as well as being ‘business-oriented and permanently supporting the business goals of the company’....

One of the world’s largest and most successful food and beverages company, US conglomerate Kraft Heinz has a continually expanding presence in Latin America. Despite being based in Costa Rica,...

Global transport and logistics company Kuehne + Nagel has more than 1,300 offices in 108 countries with more than 70,000 employees. Supporting its Argentina based operations, the Kuehne + Nagel...

A compact but dynamic, knowledgeable and business-savvy legal function, multinational consumer products giant L’Oréal’s legal team in Argentina is comprised of three individuals; Solange Kurchan as legal manager, Matías Sorondo...

InterCement’s Argentina subsidiary Loma Negra is a market leader in the manufacturing of cement, concrete, and lime. Legal affairs manager Lucrecia Loureiro heads the leads team of around five individuals,...

With over 50 years of local experience, US Fortune 500 company ManpowerGroup develops innovative human capital solutions for more than 2,000 clients in Argentina. The legal team at the Group’s...

A major energy company in Argentina, Medanito provides both upstream exploration of oil and natural gas (including shale) and mid-stream processing of natural gas, as well as the generation of...

The legal team at the Argentine e-commerce company MercadoLibre comprises 20 employees (18 lawyers and two non-legal employees) led by senior vice president and general counsel Jacobo Cohen Imach and...

Having had a presence in Argentina for over 80 years, Merck currently commands a dominant position in the local market for chemical drugs and biopharmaceuticals. The Argentine legal department at...

Global US life insurer MetLife began its operations in Argentina in the mid-1990s. Heading the legal functions of the company in both Argentina and Uruguay is assistant vice president and...

Technology giant Microsoft is supported in Argentina by lawyers that have decades of experience between them and oversee a wide remit encompassing legal affairs, corporate and compliance issues pertaining to...

Jackie Donaldson currently serves as the general counsel of Nestlé’s Plata region, which encompasses operations in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, having previously worked in a legal specialist position at the...

Supporting the Southern Cone operations of the global sportswear brand Nike, the Argentine legal team is led by Southern Cone legal director Pablo Windhausen. Reporting into him and making up...

The Argentine legal department of the multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis embraces a “matrix-like” organisational structure, whereby the country legal heads of the internal divisions (Pharma, Onco, Alcon or Sandoz) report...

Founded in 2006, OLX Group is a global online marketplace which operates in 45 countries and is the largest online classified advertisements company in Pakistan, Brazil, India, Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal...

Sun Microsystems was integrated into the Oracle business after the multinational computer technology company’s acquisition in 2010. This complex merger of two leading technology companies required a tremendous amount of...

Led by Mariano Romero de Haz, the legal team in Pampa Energía’s downstream and petrochemical business is known for its practical expertise and technical knowledge. Romero de Haz himself is...

A subsidiary company owned 60% by BP and 40% by Bridas Corporation, Pan American Energy operates across Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Chile and Uruguay, and is the second largest producer of...

PepsiCo Argentina has been present in the regional market for almost 60 years, and currently has a broad portfolio of food and beverage products such as Pepsi, Gatorade, Lay’s and...

Mariano Mazur leads the legal team of Perez Companc Family Group, a high profile Argentine business that has a variety of operations in its home territory as well as in...

Petrobras Argentina was first formed as the Argentina-based subsidiary of Brazilian energy conglomerate Petróleo Brasileiro, however is now under control of Argentina’s domestic energy giant Pampa Energía. Petrobras Argentina is...

A fast-growing Argentine company in the energy sector, Petroquímica Comodoro Rivadavia (PCR) employs a legal team that is driven by the values of ‘teamwork and leadership’ according to Mariano Juárez...

The Pluspetrol legal team has proven its qualities time and again, successfully providing key legal support to every part of the company’s operations. This is no small feat, given that...

Senior counsel for Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, Nicolás Cuadros describes the Philip Morris International (PMI) in-house legal team covering the South Cluster as ‘extremely creative, diverse and full...

Since setting up in Argentina in 1991, multinational consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) has invested over US$1bn in its operations in the country and its products today are...

The legal team at Sanofi’s South Cone operation (based in Buenos Aires but with jurisdiction over Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) is led by Inés Riobó, who is a member of...

SAP is a software multinational corporation that, despite its headquarters being located in Germany, is a truly global business with regional offices in 180 nations across the world. Its activities...

SAS Institute, the US multinational analytical software developer, is a company that continues to expand its presence outside its home market. The growth of SAS in Latin America is overseen...

The Argentina based legal team of multinational company Schlumberger was described by nominators as having ‘effective collaboration and open communication’, ensuring that the Buenos Aires based team is at the...

The multinational oil and gas giant Shell has ambitious plans for Argentina, having recently announced a target to invest $300m per year in the country through to 2020 in exploration,...

Having started operations in Argentina in 1857, the German conglomerate Siemens has a strong and long-standing presence in the country. Today, among its 1,600 Argentine employees is the company’s legal...

The two-person legal team at the Argentine joint venture operation of the multinational food and agribusiness company Simplot, deals with all legal matters faced by the business regionally, providing support...

Socma and Sideco Americana, an engineering, construction, real estate development, concessions and utilities company, has already achieved the distinction of having its in-house legal staff recognised in the industry. Antonio...

Syngenta is a Swiss global agribusiness that has a number of business interests including genomic research, agrochemicals and seed production, and organises its activities in Argentina as part of its...

Founded in 1995, Tarjeta Shopping (Tarshop) is a revolutionary payment service that aims to provide retail customers with a convenient payment method at shopping malls and other stores around the...

An Italian-Argentine conglomerate with headquarters in both Milan and Buenos Aires, Techint is composed of six main companies with an international reach and now has a workforce of over 50,000...

Telecom Argentina is a major Argentine telephone operator that covers the Northern part of Argentina including the capital city of Buenos Aires. Having grown incrementally since its foundation in 1990,...

Telefe is an Argentine broadcaster located in Buenos Aires and is also a television network and one of Argentina’s five national television channels. As of November 2016, in a bid...

Owned by the Spanish broadband and telecommunications giant Telefónica, Telefónica Argentina stands as the largest and leading fixed-line operator in the country. It provides broadband, local and long distance telephone...

Luxemburg-headquartered Ternium is the leading steel company in Latin America, producing flat and long steel products in its major manufacturing centres in Argentina, the United States, Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala....

María Mercedes Olano is the current head of legal department for BTM’s Buenos Aires branch, and leads a team that is compact, dynamic and extremely well integrated into the Japanese...

Commonly referred to as Disney, The Walt Disney Company founded its Argentina operation in 1990. Today its legal team in the country is represented by a number of outstanding in-house...

Transportadora de Gas del Norte (TGN) is dedicated to the transport of natural gas by high pressure gas pipelines in Argentina’s central and northern regions. Its vast operations mean it...

Multinational broadcasting firm Turner is a world renowned television and media company that has recently seen a huge increase in its footprint in the Latin American market. In 2017 Turner...

Covering Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, Unilever’s Southern Cone operations cover a range of jurisdictions and regulatory regimes. The legal team tasked with overseeing the multinational consumer products...

Topping Fortune’s Global 500 list of the world’s largest companies by revenue, Walmart has had successful operations in Latin America for several years, and legal support to its Argentina subsidiary...

German-headquartered Wintershall has an extensive operation in Argentina that requires the support of expert business units behind the scenes in order to function effectively. Its legal team in Argentina continues...

The legal team at the heart of the Argentine state-owned oil company YPF provides legal support across the full spectrum of the organisation’s supply chain, which includes oil and gas...