Lawyer · Buenos Aires

Pablo Viñals Blake

Profile

Pablo Viñals Blake has been partner of Marval O’Farrell Mairal since 1997 and works in the Corporate and M&A team, leading the Private Equity, Venture Capital and Agribusiness Groups in Marval.

Pablo was involved in the privatization program carried out by the Argentine government during the 1990s and represented domestic and multinational companies, private equity, hedge funds and financial institutions in almost all of the largest M&A, Agribusiness and project financing transactions held in Argentina in the last two decades. In these matters, he also assisted local and foreign investors on deals in other Latin-American countries, such as Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil and advised multilateral financial institutions such as the IFC, IDB and the United States Eximbank on their Argentine operations.

Prior to becoming a member of Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal, he was a foreign associate in the New York office of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP (1992-1994).

He has spoken in courses and at seminars.

Education

Pablo graduated from the Universidad Católica Argentina with a law degree in 1988 and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Harvard Law School.

Awards and Recognitions

Pablo has been recognized as " one of the country’s top M&A figures," "has unmatched expertise in the Argentine market and his knowledge of our business allows him to give us advice that exceeds legal matters. In a complex market, he is instrumental in helping us achieve our business goals." (Corporate/M&A Band 1), "one of the country’s foremost names in agribusiness " and "one of the best lawyers in Argentina," (Agribusiness Star individual) and "a much-celebrated corporate finance lawyer" (Private Equity #1 band) by "Chambers Latin America’s Leading Lawyers" and by Chambers Global (Band 1), as well as by other professional directories such as Legal 500, IFLR and Latin Lawyer, in the areas of Corporate/M&A, Private Equity and Agribusiness.

Publications

He has published many articles on topics related to his areas of specialization in several Latin-American, European and Middle East countries as well as in the United States, China and Japan.