Carlos E. Alfaro has a long standing career representing national and multinational corporations, lending institutions and banks and in the financing of large infrastructure projects, from gas and oil pipelines, electric utilities, steel mill plants, ferroalloys, ferrous and steel furnaces, real estate developments, export finance, hydro electrical projects, mining projects and road toll projects.
His experience represents twenty-five years of legal practice in different economic and legal environments in which risk allocation and protection require legal, economic and political expertise. In this sense, he has accumulated invaluable knowledge that contributes to its proficiency and capability in this area.
Currently, he is the chairman of the Argentine-American Chamber of Commerce in New York and also a member of the Executive Committee of the Section of International Law and Practice of the New York State Bar Association, Vice President of the American Foreign Law Association and active member of the International Bar Association.
He has been involved in numerous investments and transactions. Oil and Gas: Sinopec acquisition of Occidental Petroleum 23 concessions in Santa Cruz, Mining: Integra Lithium investments in Jujuy and Catamarca. Aviation: Bell Helicopter, Austral. Private Equity: GEM, Hicks Muse, The Exxel Group, Integra Capital. Clean Energy: Soltec Spain. Global industrial gases and engineering: Linde/Praxair. Infrastructure: CCA (China Construction América), Bechtel. Wineries: Salentein, El Portillo and Calia.
He has written and lectured extensively on a variety of legal issues arising out of his public and private activities. He has also been a professor of Administrative Law, specializing in government concessions and contracts at the State and Catholic University of Buenos Aires.
Alfaro-Abogados organization has been formed for the purposes of providing innovative legal solutions to the increasingly complicated transactions of today’s global economy: cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, competition and antitrust, project finance, structured global finance, securitization of assets and receivables from different jurisdictions, financial leasing, corporate reorganization affecting subsidiaries in other countries, concessions, regulatory compliance, international construction projects, turnkey projects, distribution agreements, tax planning and establishing strategic alliances, among other international transactions.
To successfully complete these transactions, companies have learned that they need advice and counsel from an organization with worldwide resources and experience in similar dealings.
The members of Alfaro-Abogados organization have advised and represented multinational corporations in international private transactions as well as in the negotiation of major public projects with Government Agencies. They have also presented papers and given lectures before numerous trade and professional associations in the United States, Europe and South America. Our members are fluent in the languages spoken at the main investors’ countries and most of them have worked and studied in different jurisdictions, achieving the technical and business expertise necessary to understand the industry and the economics of the transaction involved.
Our members are trained and accustomed to negotiate on behalf of their clients. Their capacity to understand the different cultural, working and business patterns of the parties involved in an international transaction is one of their main assets, a key feature in the efficient and expedient implementation of the client’s objectives.
Alfaro-Abogados moreover assists its clients in designing the best strategy when negotiating deals, engineering the most convenient legal structure and implementing the transaction in an expedient and efficient manner. This helps companies to ensure that potential problems are handled timely and effectively by their management.
We also provide representation in mediation, arbitration, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), to insure its clients that their companies’ problems are handled in the most cost-effective and confidential manner. Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms have become a very useful instrument for multinational corporations to resolve constructively their disputes without disrupting their business.
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