Pedro de la Fuente
Attorney, with 20+ years of transactional experience. Hard working and problem-solving professional with a comprehensive view of the law, and its relationship with other disciplines.
I earned my Law Degree at the Universidad Católica Argentina, and completed specialization program in Corporate Law at the Universidad Austral and an advanced program in Oil and Gas Law at the University of Buenos Aires. I am Master in Laws in Business Law from the Universidad Austral.
I attended to the 46th Academy for American and International Law of the Center for American and International Law (formerly Southwestern Legal Foundation) and to the summer program (“Summer Academy in International Law in a changing world”) dictated by both, the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and the Center for Law, Economics and Politics Studies, in the city of Asunción, Paraguay.
I was awarded a scholarship awarded by the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Section of the International Bar Association.
I am currently working as a Director at the Office of General Counsel of PwC Argentina. Previously, I worked at important firms in Argentina, namely: Basililo, Fernández Madero & Duggan, Allende & Brea, and Rattagan, Macchiavello, Arocena & Peña Robirosa S.C.
Expert Practice Areas
Merger & Acquisitions
Corporate Law. Family companies
Civil and Commercial Litigation
Inheritance Law and Estate planning
Civil Patrimonial Law
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Law
Corporate Immigration Law
Intellectual Property and Privacy Law
Contract Law
Religious Entities. Registration before the National Registry of Worships
Academic Activity
Professor to the PwC Chair on "Corporate Governance" at the IAE Business School.
Guest professor of "Business Reorganization" of the Tax Law Master Degree dictated at the Law School of the Argentine Catholic University.
Publications
"Foreign companies: a regulation in line with the global reality of business", coauthored with Damián Horacio González Rivero, Journal of Commercial Law and Obligations, Thomson Reuters, December 2019
Argentine Chapter to "The International Comparative Legal Guide to Corporate Immigration 2015 - 2nd Edition", Global Legal Group Limited, United Kingdom, August 2015.
Argentine Chapter to "The International Comparative Legal Guide to Corporate Immigration 2014", Global Legal Group Limited, United Kingdom, July 2014.
Argentine Chapter to "The Corporate Immigration Review", The Law Reviews, United Kingdom, June 2012.
Argentine Chapter to "Corporate Immigration Law: A Practitioner's Guide", Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, May 2012.
"The Audiovisual Communication Services Law", coauthored with Juan Pablo De Luca, New York State Bar Association International Chapter, New York, United States, December 2010.
Pro Bono Work
Do good without making noise!
My pro bono work began when I joined the Catholic Lawyers Association, and today is aimed at assisting people with limited means, who are unable to access justice, in matters that are not of a patrimonial nature.