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Estudio Rinaldi is a law firm with over 50 years’ experience in the market.
Originally founded by Juan Carlos Rinaldi as a family firm,
Estudio Rinaldi has grown over the years to include new
professionals in a structured system of practice groups.
Through the passage of years our firm has maintained its
essence, rooted in a personal relationship with the client,
high-caliber legal service, and the agility with which we mmet
our clients’ needs. Our professionals—highly skilled attorneys
with the background of academic excellence that has
characterized us since the beginning—strive to provide
comprehensive solutions, tackling any matter with a vision that
embraces all aspects of the business.
Our services are backed by a modern professional, technical,
and legal structure which permits us to give effective, efficient,
and personalized attention toall our clients.
WHO WE ARE
Service, Trust, and Effectiveness.
Our passion for this profession, our experience, and our vocation
to service allow us to build a relationship with our clients through
a profound identification with them and their business. This
creates the connection necessary to provide effective, satisfying
solutions.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS LAW
We are business lawyers, and as such it is our job to get to know our
clients in depth, advising them from the seeds of their business to its full
flowering. This connection empowers us to focus our work just as much
on the day-to-day needs of the company as on eventual litigation, from a
distinctly commercial angle.
We have broad and long-standing experience in advising domestic,
foreign, and multinational clients. This versatility allows us to understand
the problems a foreign firm faces as it seeks to do business in Argentina or
the challenges a small entrepreneur may encounter on the path to
building a new company. Our service is personalized because we strive to
learn our clients’ business and get to know the people at the heart of the
company.
CONSUMER PROTECTION
Estudio Rinaldi is a noted player in the field of consumer law on behalf of
corporations, working with our clients at every stage from evaluation and
prevention of potential liability to the defense of their interests in
administrative and judicial tribunals.Our role in this area embraces all its
relevant facets, including analysis of contracts related to consumer
relations, revision of standard clauses, form contracts, and contracts of
adhesion, adaptation of international contractual standards to meet
Argentine consumer protection norms, and advising on defective product
recalls and associated civil liability.Similarly, we have vast experience in
the prerelease review of our clients’ advertising materials under the norms
of Consumer Protection and Commercial Loyalty. For matters arising from
consumer complaints or regulatory actions, Estudio Rinaldi has a team of
attorneys specialized in the area of consumer protection to work with and
protect our clients in mediation and court proceedings, in both national
and provincial jurisdictions.
PRACTICE AREAS
We act in matters relating to the labor rights of individuals arising from the
day-to-day needs of business, working directly with Human Resources
departments. Our rapid and personalized attention permits our clients to
make prompt, well-advised decisions in employment situations. We have
a group of professionals specialized in this field, dealing with all
labor-related consultations and providing direct, reliable assistance to
resolve any client issue. In this way, our attorneys grow to become a
regular and reliable support for the various Human Resources
departments we counsel.
In addition, we act as attorneys in labor claims and lawsuits filed against
our clients, working actively to achieve practical, efficient solutions within
these scenarios of personal conflict.
Finally, our Labor Department has notable experience participating in
collective bargaining conflicts, in which we provide advice, propose
solutions, and represent our business clients before governmental
regulatory bodies and union leaders.
SPORTS LAW
We have deep experience in the field of sports law, as we have provided
legal counsel to many professionals and institutions connected with the
world of sports—from athletes themselves, agents, representatives, clubs,
sporting associations and foundations, to enterprises seeking to sponsor
tournaments or athletes and businesses holding the media and broadcast
rights to international sporting events.
In this specialized field, our participation includes a wide range of services:
event planning; negotiation of contracts among clubs, representatives,
and sponsors; representation and advocacy before national and
international sporting authorities; drafting and implementation of publicity
and sponsorship contracts; legal counsel for athletes and professional;
assistance to investors and agents; management of broadcast rights and
licenses for television, Internet, and streaming, and more.
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW
We have broad-ranging experience in providing integrated legal
assistance on matters connect to banking, financing and loans to public
and/or private entities, exchange regulations, imports and exports,
securitization, and fiduciary activity.
Not only does Estudio Rinaldi advise numerous banks and financial
entities on judicial and extrajudicial collections, but our members have
taken active roles in the Latin American Federation of Banks and the
Committee of Banking Lawyers of Argentina.
CIVIL LAW AND PRACTICE
Estudio Rinaldi provides counsel and representation in all of the varied
issues that make up the legal life of our individual clients and of the
corporate organizations in which they participate as directors, partners,
and shareholders.
We participate in everything from advice and support on real estate
contracts, evictions, and mortgage foreclosures to representation of
plaintiffs and defendants in torts and other kinds of civil suits. Likewise, we
provide counsel and act in court for clients in cases involving family
law—we are specialists in divorce, alimony and child support, and
adoptions, as well as wills, trusts, and estates for high-net-worth clients.
BANKING AND FINANCE LAW
COLLECTION SERVICES
We offer a complete debt collection service, including all stages of the
process (on-time collections, overdue payment management, and
enforcement). Working as a legal team we consider all the ramifications
of unfulfilled obligations (delinquent debts) and advise our clients on the
distinct alternatives for pursuing recovery. This affords the client an
efficient and effective collections service, reducing costs as well
FABIÁN RINALDI
Attorney since 1985.
Specialist in comprehensive counsel for businesses. International contracts and litigation. Sports law.
Adjunct interim and assistant professor in the Chair of Civil and Commercial Law at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) until 1991, under Dr. Aníbal Alterini.
Professor at the University of Belgrano (UB) in Civil and Commercial law, 1986–2001.
Member of the Academic Council of the School of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Belgrano (1984).
Winner of a study grant awarded by the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), 1984. Participant in a course on “The Republic of China for Young Latin American Businesspersons.”
Languages: Spanish, English.
SILVINA SARAFIAN
Attorney since 1999.
Specialist in comprehensive counsel to businesses and Private Law. Advisor in Labor Law and Labor Relations.
Specialization in Family Law and Estates, University of Buenos Aires (2000–05).
Continuing studies in-depth program in Theory and Practice of Private Labor Law, University of Buenos Aires (2009).
Adjunct professor in various subjects relating to private law, family law, and estates at the University of Belgrano and University of Buenos Aires (1999–2006).
Languages: Spanish, English, Armenian.
RODRIGO MENENDEZ
Attorney since 2001.
Specialist in comprehensive counsel for businesses. International contracts and litigation. Labor law counsel to businesses.
Postgraduate degree in ComprehensiveBusiness Counsel, University of Buenos Aires (2006).
Master’s degree in Financial Business Law, Catholic University of Argentina (2009).
Thesis The Securitization of Assets in Argentina published by Editorial Belgrano..
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese.
Av. Libertador 6810, Piso 18.
C1429BMO
Buenos Aires, Argentina
(54-11) 5628-4000
www.estudiorinaldi.com
