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• Establishing a Business Entity in Argentina (Updated)

  1. Types of business entities - The most common types of legal entities adopted in Argentina are the limited liability company (“Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada” or “SRL”), the corporation (“Sociedad Anónima” or “SA”) and the simplified corporation (“SAS”). Below you will find a comparative analysis of the most relevant characteristics and the basic differences between SRL, SA and SAS.

• Data Privacy Guide - Argentina

  In Argentina, data protection is governed by comprehensive legislation aimed at safeguarding individuals' personal data. Below you will find an outline of the key aspects including governing legislation, exploring their scope of application, requirements for data processing, rights and duties of data providers/principals, processing of children's data, regulatory authorities, and consequences of non-compliance.

• Establishing a Business Entity in Argentina (Updated)

  Types of business entities - The two most common types of legal entities adopted in Argentina are the limited liability company (“Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada” or “SRL”) and the corporation (“Sociedad Anónima” or “SA”). In 2017, Argentina incorporated a new type of legal entity, the Simplified Company ("SAS"), which was expected to simplify procedures, corporate bodies and reduce costs for new companies. However, several regulations have been issued by the Public Registry of Commerce of the City of Buenos Aires which have significantly reduced access to this type of entity as well as increasing the bureaucratic burden.

• Buying and Selling Real Estate in Argentina (Updated)

  Key Facts of Real Estate Acquisitions Under Argentinian Law - I. INTRODUCTION. Below you will find a brief outline of the legal regulation of the acquisition of real estate property in Argentina, which is mainly governed by the Argentine Civil and Commercial Code (“CCC”).

• Buying and Selling Real Estate in Argentina (Updated)

  KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER ARGENTINIAN LAW - Below you will find a brief outline of the legal regulation of the acquisition of real estate property in Argentina, which is mainly governed by the Argentine Civil and Commercial Code (“CCC”). Please see full Chapter below for more information.

• Establishing a Business Entity in Argentina (Updated)

  Types of business entities - The two most common types of legal entities adopted in Argentina are the limited liability company (“Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada” or “SRL”) and the corporation (“Sociedad Anónima” or “SA”). In 2017, Argentina incorporated a new type of legal entity, the Simplified Company ("SAS"), which was expected to simplify procedures, corporate bodies and reduce costs for new companies. However, as of the time of writing an amendment to the regulation of the SAS is being considered by the Legislative Branch, which could significantly reduce the access to this type of entity as well as increasing the bureaucratic burden. Please see full Chapter below for more information.

• Doing mining in Argentina

  An overview of the mining sector in Argentina, its market, differentiator factors and recent trends. The mining sector in Argentina is becoming highly dynamic, providing genuine and sustainable development. Substantial exploration during the last 15 years has confirmed a great potential for the development of new world-class projects, related to the extraction of copper, gold, silver and lithium. Please see full Publication below for more information.

• The joint statement of the Argentina’s Central Bank and the National Securities Commission about crypto-assets

  On May 20, Argentina’s Central Bank (“BCRA”) and the National Securities Commission (“CNV”) issued a joint statement warning about the risks and implications involved in using and investing in crypto-assets.

• Digging Deeper Episode 8: Investigating Corruption in Argentina

  Lazaro Baez was recently sentenced to 12 years in jail for money laundering in Argentina, charges that connected him to political powers still at large in the country.

• Argentina: Q&A - Employer COVID-19 Vaccination Policies (UPDATED)

  WLG asked member firms around the globe to provide some insight on employer and employee rights when it comes to requiring the COVID-19 vaccine to return to work. Responses for Argentina have been updated with new questions since its initial publication in January. Can an employer require compulsory COVID vaccination? If yes, are there any exceptions or special circumstances that an employer must consider?

Featured documents

• Argentina: Then, Now and Next?

  Flash back ten years, and Argentina enjoyed an average annual growth of 9%, was the strongest economy in Latin America and considered an impending rival to the up-and-coming BRIC countries. Over the ensuing years, as employment increased and incomes rose, government revenues and spending also...

• Argentine Data Protection Authority Approves Model Clauses

  The Argentine Data Protection Authority recently issued a new regulation approving two sets of model contractual clauses (controller-to-controller and controller-to-processor) for the international transfer of personal data. Argentina’s Personal Data Protection Law No. 25,326 (PDPL) generally...

• The "Corruption Notebooks" Scandal in Argentina Gets Attention from U.S. Enforcement Authorities

  Argentina’s corruption notebooks scandal is just as it sounds—a scandal initiated by eight notebooks documenting at least seven years of elaborate corruption schemes involving senior officials in Argentina’s government. The notebooks were kept by the driver for a close advisor to Julio de Vido,...

• Dentons COVID-19 Retail Tracker - Argentina

  The Argentine government took measures to minimize the spread of COVID-19 since the very beginning of the pandemic....

• Don’t Cry For Me Argentine Bondholders: Plaintiffs Reject Argentina’s Proposal

  The plaintiffs have squarely rejected the proposal that Argentina made in its March 29 reply to the Second Circuit’s March 1 inquiry as to how Argentina planned to “make current” the “original bonds” held by the plaintiffs. The stage is now set for the Second Circuit to rule. On March 1, the...

• Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker

  This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from December 16, 2016 – January 15, 2017. Greetings! While there was some slowdown in regulatory activity towards the end of the year, as usual, there were also some fairly significant developments, although no significant surprises. ...

• Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker December 2018

  ARGENTINA - BIODIVERSITY - The Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development published the 2017 State of the Environment Report....

• COVID-19 State Aid and Compliance

  The disruptions on the economy and the labor markets caused by COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, were immediately followed by aid relief measures established by virtually every government. Within a context of emergency, financial relief measures such as loans, tax deductions and others, imply certain...

• Film distributors will face new administrative hurdles in Argentina

  Unexpectedly, the government of Argentina has decided to enforce law 23,316, enacted on May 23, 1986, regarding certain requirements for dubbing motion pictures and television programming (the “Dubbing Act”), which was only in the books and never implemented… until today....

• Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker

  This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from January 16, 2017 – February 15, 2017. The pace of environmental and sustainability initiatives continues at its breakneck pace in Latin America, notwithstanding summer vacations. This past month we saw a continued press to issue new energy...