Bomchil‘s team of banking, financial, IP, tax and corporate law specialists provide fintech clients with a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary service that runs the full gamut of transactional and operational work. The practice advises P2P lenders, e-payment platforms, factoring platforms, crowd funders and cryptocurrency exchanges, offering support on regulatory, structuring, investment, financing and day-to-day matters. Banking regulatory expert María Victoria Funes leads the team and is well-known for her expertise in the design and development of e-payment platforms and peer-to-peer credit platforms, as well as crowdfunding, and tokenisation regulations. Experienced banking and finance partner Fermín Caride is the other key senior name, with newly incorporated corporate and contractual-focused partner Francisco Zappa also called on to support the team. Senior María Victoria Tuculet (corporate finance, capital markets and financial regulation) is the main contact at the associate level.
Testimonials
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‘The Bomchil is technically sophisticated. They know the regulation and the industry very well, and also have the ability to understand our needs and return high-quality deliverables in a very short time.'
‘The firm stands out for its technical excellence, ability to resolve queries within strict deadlines and understanding of our product and our needs.'
'María Victoria Funes and María Victoria Tuculet have provided very good support and help with queries.'
Key clients
- Akami
- American Express
- Ant Group (Alipay)
- Bloomberg
- Buenbit
- Circle Internet Financial, LLC
- Deezer
- DLocal
- Fortune International Group
- Growie
- Huawei
- Invoinet
- Mercado Libre
- Mills Capital Markets
- Ohana
- OKTO
- Redsys Servicios de Procesamiento SL
- Rippling
- Tu tasa
- ViacomCoS
- Wilobank
- WiseTech
- The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Work highlights
- Retained by Mercado Libre to provide day-to-day advice to its regulatory compliance team at Mercado Pago, its payment solutions platform.
- Advising Growie, a real estate tokenization platform, on financial regulatory matters related to the implementation of a cross-border platform for investment in real estate.
- Advising OKTO, a digital payments company, on the Argentine regulatory requirements for its launch in Argentina, including corporate, tax, FX matters and anti-money laundering regulations.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
María Victoria Funes