Profile of the Founder
Alfredo L. Rovira
The founder of the Study RoviraThe founder of the Studio Rovira, Dr. Alfredo L. Rovira, he was a Partner Manager for more than 20 years of Study Brons & Salas, one of the firms most prestigious firm with main seat in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and senior Partner and Co-chair of the Corporate Department of the firm for more than 30 years, in addition to being the founder and Group Director of Arbitration at the firm for more than 10 years.
Dr. Rovira also dedicated much of her professional activity on a part-time university teaching, as a Professor of Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Economic Sciences, both from the University of Buenos Aires, in addition to giving chair in other private and public universities in Argentina and Uruguay, as a visiting professor.
In recognition of his vast academic activities, Dr. Rovira was appointed a member of the Institute of Corporate Law by the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences, the academic institution of higher prestige of the Republic of Argentina, as well as a Corresponding Member of the Institute of Business Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay.
EDUCATION
Dr. Alfredo Rovira he graduated from law school in the year 1967 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires and obtained the title of Doctor of Law (cum laude) from the same university in the year 2003. His doctoral thesis “partnership Agreements” was recommended for the Award Faculty of the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE – ACHIEVEMENTS
Dr. Rovira focuses its professional activity in the topics of corporate law, mergers and acquisitions (including issues of competition), reorganizations, contract negotiation, complex litigation and arbitration, domestic and international (as an arbitrator, expert witness, or attorney of a party). Dr. Rovira currently a member of the standing panel of international arbitrators of the International Center of Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association, in addition to integrating the list of arbitrators of other institutions that administer arbitrations.
Dr. Rovira has a vast reputation and recognition of their colleagues, professional chambers and specialist publications for his expertise in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, contract law and litigation, and complex arbitrations, both domestic and international, having been considered at various times among the 10 top lawyers of Argentina in their areas of expertise, as an expert in Mergers & Acquisitions, in Corporate Governance and issues of Insolvency by Who's Who Legal, and as an expert in Arbitration by Chambers and Partners.
Dr. Rovira has extensive experience in advising companies, having built several boards of corporations “open” and “closed” and advised Directory of commercial companies (both open and closed) as well as of the subsidiaries of multinational corporations and/or their attorneys.
Dr. Rovira has advised and advisor to family groups in their transition “societies of the family” to “professional societies” by providing your advice and experience in the drafting and experience vivid Protocols of the Family and the drafting and operation of the Conventions of Shareholders.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
Since 1976, Dr. Rovira has been serving as a Professor of Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, where he earned the title of one of the chairs of the Department of Economic Law and Business of the high school of law, on the basis of their opposition. In addition, by his merit and academic record, he was appointed Professor Consulted the Department of Economic Law and Business and a member of the Doctoral Committee of the referred to Law School.
Dr. Rovira he also served as an Associate Professor, also designated by competition of opposition, of Corporate Law at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.
Formed, or forms a part of the campus of visiting professors in Graduate Courses and Masters degrees in corporate Law at several universities (University of Southern 1992/2006, Buenos Aires and Rosario, Universidad Notarial Argentina, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa Universidad Siglo XXI) and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina and Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (from 2007 to the present).
In addition, he had an active participation in various Committees of the International Bar Association and the American Bar Association, playing leadership positions in various committees of these associations of lawyers.
His books on corporate law and foreign companies are using must and a permanent reference as literature to consult, both doctrinal, judges, lawyers, and students in Argentina.
Memberships – Languages
Dr. Rovira is a member of the Panel of Arbitration of Commercial Dispute Resolution Center of the Americas, Miami, Florida, USA and other arbitral tribunals permanent. In the International Section of Law & Practice of the American Bar Association and was the Coordinator for Argentina and Representative of the Foreign Lawyers in the Council (1995-1999), Co-Chair of the Inter-American Law Committee (2000 to 2001) and Chairman of the same Committee (2002-2003), Vice President of the Comité International Securities and Capital Markets (2002-2003) and a member of the Advisory Council of Latin America Law Initiative Council (2003-2006) and the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and was Co-Vice-chairman of the Subcommittee on Litigation International Business and Corporate Litigation Committee and subsequently Co-Chair of the Subcommittee on Litigation International (2013-present), he is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Corporate Governance Committee and was a Co-Vice President of the Corporate Governance Committee (2012-2014) and Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Developments (2010-2012).
He was a member of the board of the bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires (2004-2006) and Chairman of the Committee on Commercial Law of the institution (2007-2009). He was a member of the Council Legal Consultative, Honorary and Advisory Board Fee in the Defense of Competition, both of the Chamber of Corporations for more than 10 years and was a member of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (AMCHAM) from the year 1992 to the year 2015 and President of the Committee of Legal Affairs and Tax AMCHAM from 1988 to the present.
Dr. Rovira speak and write the English and Spanish languages. In turn, reads, and understands French, Italian, and Portuguese.
PAST EXPERIENCE AND RECENT
During his professional career, he participated in numerous complex projects and of great economic importance. Among these projects can cite the legal structuring of the project of construction of the largest pipeline of Argentina (“Pipeline mid-West”) and “Project Financing”. The Pipeline Centre West is one of the three pipelines largest in the world. In addition, he designed and led several projects of establishment in Argentina of the business of multinational companies such as General Motors Corporation, Mcdonald's Corporation, Standard & Poor's, SHV Holdings NV (Supermarkets, Wholesalers Makro SA), Sumitomo Corporation, Marubeni Corporation, among many others, and negotiated and oversaw major acquisitions of companies in argentina made by The Clorox Company, Owens Illinois, Inc., WPP Group Plc., Publicis Groupe SA, among others.
Dr. Rovira was a member of the Legislation Committee created by the Decree 958/1991 for the drafting of a draft of the General Law of Arbitration and also was invited to participate as a consultant of the ministry of Finance of the Ministry of Economy of the Nation, in the process of drafting the Regime of Transparency and Corporate Governance sanctioned as a Decree 677/2001.
Dr. Rovira acted as lead counsel in large and complex litigation, both domestic and international derivatives of corporate disputes and/or contract of great size and complexity, including summaries by the National Securities Commission and resources on direct appeal before the National Chamber of Appeals against administrative acts. He also acted in numerous cases for the defense of competition with the National Commission for the Defense of Competition, either to obtain the authorization of purchases and mergers in the defense of complaints for violation of the legal regime.
Dr. Rovira coordinated legal strategy for the defense in Argentina attending to the legal advisors of insurance companies for claims by coverage of political risk involved in multiple claims brought in arbitration courts and judicial in the outside during the argentine crisis of 2001 and the years following.
As an expert witness issued numerous rulings on disputes, arbitration and legal proceedings in Austria, Brazil, Spain, the united States of America, and Uruguay, and shall defend the same at hearings in litigation and international arbitrations.
After his retirement as a partner of Brons & Salas has mounted this signature at the beginning of 2013 with the concept of “boutique specializing in corporate law,” focusing the activity on the quality of the service, and building a flexible structure that allows you to adapt to the needs of the customers while minimizing fixed costs and thus allowing to provide high-quality services at a reasonable cost to its clients and lawyers who require their services as a consultant.
PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Rovira is the author of “partnership Agreements”, Editorial Astrea, Bs. As., 2006, “Foreign Companies”, Abeledo Perrot, Bs. As., 1985 and co-author of the “Notebooks of Corporate Law”, the work of four volumes 1973-1988.
In addition, he has published chapters in numerous collective works both in Argentina and abroad, among which stand out the chapter “Abusive Use of the forms and mechanisms of society as the basis to declare his illegitimacy” in “Topics in Commercial Law Modern”, Ed. Depalma, Bs. As., 1998, “Attachment of Assets, Chapter by Argentina, Juris Publishing House, New. York, N. Y., USA, 1999, “The remuneration of the directors” in “Studies on the directory of the anonymous society”, Ed. Ad-Hoc, Bs. As., 1999, “Enforcement of Money Judgments Abroad”, Chapter I, Argentina, Matthew Bender, USA, 1988, “Bank Security and other Credit Enhancement Methods”, Chapter I: Argentina, Kluwer Law International, The Hague-London-Boston, 1995, he was the director-editor of the book published by the American Bar Association, Section of International Law & Practice, Washington DC, USA, “Doing Business in Argentina where he was the author of the chapters “Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer” and “Intellectual Property Protection”. In the International Business Insolvency Guide, is co-author of Chapter 13: “Argentina”, LexisNexis Publishing House, 2002, and the author of the Chapter “Security Interests under Argentine Law,” Chapter I “Argentina”, Kluwer Law International, London, UK., 2002.
He directed the play “a Company in Crisis”, where he was author of the Chapter “the Responsibility for insolvency and social capital”, Ed. Astrea, Bs. As., 2005. He was also the author of the Chapter “The Company in Concepción Moderna” Contracts in the Treaty of the Company, Vol. II, led by Dr. Ana I. Piaggi, Ed. Abeledo Perrot, Bs. As., 2010 and author of the Chapters “Right to Information” in the Treaty of Corporate Disputes, Vol. II, led by Dr. Diego Duprat, Abeledo Perrot, Bs. As., 2013.
Dr. Rovira is the author of numerous articles in his specialty (commercial law, corporate law, antitrust, contract law, bankruptcy and contests) published in various journals in Argentina and abroad.
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