Zabaleta y Ordoñez Abogados

Z & O is organized in several work areas, each of which is under the direct supervision of one of the partners of Z & O, with whom senior, semi-senior and junior attorneys and specially trained personnel cooperate.

All areas are constantly related and act together in order to handle the different matters submitted to us by our clients.

The attorneys of Z & O are duly qualified to adequately work with in company attorneys and/or external law firms of the companies and persons we are rendering our services to. In this way, we coordinate the activities to be performed with prestigious firms throughout the world, mainly in North America and Europe.

Within Latin America, we work closely and habitually with several law firms. In this way, we have an indirect presence in most countries of Latin America and in all countries of the MERCOSUR, where we can grant our clients a fast and efficient answer to their corporate and legal needs.

Moreover, we have correspondents in the most important cities of the Argentine Republic.

Counseling for the organization of corporations.
Investments and Foreign Corporations. Foreign investment in local companies.
Placement of bonds, relationship with the Stock Exchange.
Corporate Organization and Liquidation.
Representation and defense before control and inspection entities.
Counseling to Boards of Directors.
Internal and external indebtedness operations.
Representation of Shareholders and participation in Auditing Bodies.
Shareholders' Agreements and Share Syndication.
Tax aspects related to the corporate business.
Drafting of Minutes.
Filings with the Inspection Board of Legal Entities.
Amendment of By-laws.

Counseling on public and private administrative matters.
Bidding and Privatization: Participation in drafting proposals. Intervention in Hearings, adjudication and celebration of the contracts and their later execution.
Legal structure of the bids and potential consortium.
Filings with:
Central Bank of the Argentine Republic
Public Services and Economy Department
Industry and Trade Secretariat
Public Income Federal Administration
Securities National Committee
National Committee of Defense of Competition.

Drafting, Negotiation and Counseling on business contracts:

National and International Mergers and Acquisitions.
Strategic Alliances.
Corporate reorganization and business cooperation agreements.
Legal Audit.
Banking and Financial Contracts.
Leasing.
Franchise Contracts.
Hiring, cancellation and negotiation of indebtedness operations.

Mergers, acquisitions and voluntary liquidation of Insurance Companies.
Liquidation of claims and negotiation of agreements.
Reinsurance Agreements, Cut Off and Run Off Agreements and Insurance Policies.
Negotiation between Cedent Companies and Reinsurers.
Counseling to Insurance Agents and Foreign Brokers.
Representation of Reinsurance Companies and Foreign Brokers.
Counseling and legal representation of ART (employment liability), Retirement Insurance and Personal Insurance.

Counseling for the purchase and sale of real property.
Real estate investment, building and projects.
Construction of Public real estate.
Lease Agreements.
Real estate financing. Mortgages.
Trust contracts.
Tax aspects of real estate investments.

Complete counseling for companies:

Hiring of Executives. Foreign employees.
Hiring of employees. Contracts.
Private and collective agreements.
Termination of labor relationship.
Labor engineering and preventive law.
General and individual conflicts. Administrative or judicial stages.
Representation before unions and controlling entities.
Employment mutual association.

We offer our clients to handle conflicts in all fields of law during their different stages, that is (i) negotiation; (ii) conciliation; (iii) mediation and alternative dispute solution mechanisms; and (iv) national or international litigation or arbitration.
Our claim department intervenes in high complexity processes and has a wide experience in handling big volumes of lawsuits. It also takes active part in litigation and in civil law and successions.
Z&O has been chosen at different Public Bidding Processes and Private Biddings, in connection both with legal counseling and the judicial area. Among such biddings, it is worth mentioning the important place obtained at that called by the Ministry of Economy and of Public Services of the Nation where the most prestigious law firms of the country were present, which implied defending the interests of the Argentinean State through several of its State Owned Companies. Within the private area, the result obtained in the bidding called by Provincia Seguros S.A. must also be pointed out.

Complete counseling in connection with new legislation.
Collaboration with experts in measurements and technical aspects.
Registration of the Hazardous Wastes Act.
Filings with and depositions before the Sustainable Development Secretariat, and environmental policy.

Oil, gas, electricity and mining.
Counseling in the Distribution, Transmission and Generation of Energy.
Coordinated work with the administrative law department in presentations before specific public bodies, the Energy Secretariat, the ENRE, CAMMESA, among others.
Regulation of concession agreements.
Tariffs and negotiation.
Consultor: Rubén Barreiro.