Bruchou & Funes de Rioja advises international and domestic real estate developers, investors and lenders on real estate investments in Argentina. The practice supports clients involved in office buildings, residential homes, apartment buildings and luxury condominium developments with a wide range of tax, regulatory, financing and transactional matters, and is also experienced in rural land matters, the environmental law aspects of real estate development, and border security zone regulations. The team is led by well-regarded corporate and M&A partner Exequiel Buenaventura, who advises on the structuring of real estate projects and transactions. He is supported by senior associate Federico Vicente, who worked in-house for WeWork before joining the team in 2023.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘An excellent, helpful team that is always ready and attentive. Very professional.’

  • ‘They have a team of professionals from different branches of law who contribute their expertise.’

  • ‘Exequiel Buenaventura has impressive knowledge of the local real estate market. He has helped to strengthen the documents and structures that we devise for our developments.'

  • 'Exequiel Buenaventura and Federico Vicente are excellent, and very willing to advise us on a topic, which is new for us. They always attend to and answer our queries and calls.'

Key clients

  • Compañía Cervecerías Unidas
  • Cargill
  • IFC
  • Vista Oil & Gas
  • Ribera Desarrollos
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Hotel Madero
  • ABS Holdings
  • Kleinwort
  • La Juciela
  • Acciona
  • Skill On Net
  • YPF
  • Raghsa
  • Warsteiner
  • Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Abbatia
  • Tayron Capital

Work highlights

  • Assisted Acciona with the due diligence of the land tenure of a real estate property in the province of Misiones for the development and execution of a project related to investment in the forestation of rural land to obtain carbon credits.
  • Advised La Juciela on the real estate aspects of an agreement with a potential investor and developer of a green-hydrogen project on a rural real estate property in the province of Tierra del Fuego.
  • Advising Hotel Madero on a management agreement for a new five-star hotel on the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Exequiel Buenaventura