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Fernando Gorbea

Avatar Masc PRACTICE AREAS: Specialized in corporate finance and complex regulatory issues. As part of his professional career, he has participated in numerous local and international financing operations, in issuances of negotiable securities (stocks, corporate bonds and financial trusts), debt restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and restructuring of staff benefit plans. He has represented clients in the defense of foreign exchange and capital market proceedings. He has recently advised on the Argentine Central Bank regulations on payment service providers that offer payment accounts (virtual wallets), operations with crypto assets and managers of credit platforms. He also represents clients who operate online gaming platforms.

UNIVERSITY STUDIES: Lawyer (1988). School of Law. University of Buenos Aires.

EXPERIENCE: Member of the Legal Department of Pluspetrol S.A. (1991-1993), he was later part of the staff of lawyers specializing in capital markets at Muñoz de Toro & Muñoz de Toro (1994-1996), and in 1998 he was invited to work as a foreign lawyer at Linklaters, London office, England, where he gained direct experience in international practice. He was a senior lawyer and then a partner at the firm Cárdenas, Cassagne & Asociados (1997-2011), and a founding partner of the firm CFGD Abogados (2011-2022).

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES: He has published works related to his specializations and has taught at the Universidad Católica Argentina (Capital Markets) and at the UADE (seminar on Globalization and International Business). He was a guest panelist at the meeting of the IFA (International Fiscal Association) held in Buenos Aires and spoke on "Responsibility of Company Directors" in the context of the Río de la Plata Conference of the Argentine Association of Fiscal Studies. More recently, he has spoken at numerous "Webinars" on foreign exchange regulations and digital banking.

LANGUAGES: Spanish and English.