Eduardo A. Roca

(12/15/1921-05/15/2019)
Founding Partner

Education

  • Attorney, University of Buenos Aires Law School (1944). President of the Argentine Center of Law Students.

Professional Experience

  • Partner at Moltedo Law Firm (1944-1992).
  • Founding Partner at Roca & Sarrabayrouse (1992).
  • President, Chairman and Trustee of a number of corporations.
  • External advisor of companies and numerous law firms.
  • Third arbitrator in several courts of arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), as well as in others, created according to different arbitration and contractual clauses.
  • Inspector of Limited Liability Companies of the General Inspection of Justice (1945-1948).
  • Undersecretary of Justice (1962-1963).
  • Chairman of the Argentine Central Bank (1970-1971).
  • President in the Chamber of Limited Liability Companies (1971-1973).
  • President of the Argentine Association of Nuclear Law (1978-1980).
  • Argentine Ambassador before the Organization of American States (OAS) (1966-1968).
  • Argentine Ambassador in the United States (1968-1969).
  • Argentine Ambassador in the United Nations (1982).
  • Member of the Magistrate Trial Jury in representing the Public Bar Association of the Federal District (2003-2007).

Academic Activity

  • Vice-president of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires (200-2004).
  • Member of the Executive Council and of the Superior Council of the Buenos Aires University Law School (1960-1964).
  • Professor of Commercial Law in the Argentine Catholic University (1960-1984).
  • Lecturer in conferences and postgraduate degree courses in Buenos Aires University Law School, Austral University and the Argentine Catholic University, among others.
  • Member of the Administration Council of the Argentine Business University (UADE), of the Corporate Law Commission of the National Academy of Law, of the Commercial Law Commission of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires and of the National Academy of Enterprise Sciences.
  • Co-founder of the Argentine Council for the International Relations (CARI).
  • Member of the Advisory Commission and Chairman of the North American Comity.
  • Author of several books and publications on history, law and international relations.
  • Member of the Academic Council of the Commercial Law and Torts Review of Abeledo Perrot publisher.

Memberships and Languages

  • President of the Rotary Club of Buenos Aires (1997-1998).
  • President of the Advisory Commission of the Salvation Army, Argentina (1997-1999).
  • Lifetime Member of the Jockey Club of Buenos Aires, the Arms Circle, and the Argentine Tennis Club.
  • Fluent in Spanish and English.

Publications

  • Transferencia de acciones mortis causa, Editorial Ad-Hoc, Buenos Aires, 2000.
  • Sociedad extranjera no inscripta, Editorial La Ley, Buenos Aires, 1997.
  • “Espejismo producido por el art. 122 de la LSC”, El Derecho 249 (diario del 27 de septiembre de 2012).
  • “Una sociedad de familia y otra, lo que es peor, extranjera”, El Derecho, Suplemento Especial de Sociedades Extranjeras, pág. 23.
  • “Desconcierto ante una sentencia en materia de transferencia de acciones”, El Derecho 238, pág. 678.
  • “Sobre la configuración del contrato de compraventa de paquetes de control”, El Derecho, 230, pág. 1024.
  • “La Inspección General de Justicia como instrumento político”, El Derecho 227, pág. 695.
  • “Transferencia de acciones: siguen las dificultades”, El Derecho 221, pág. 105.
  • “Mágica transformación “en orgánico” del vínculo contractual del mandatario”, El Derecho 215, pág. 92.
  • “Acuerdo entre accionistas. Una sentencia de rigor doctrinario pero de proyección práctica”, El Derecho 194, pág. 87.
  • “Paquetes, no líos”, El Derecho 188, pág. 531.
  • “Pasivos ocultos en la ‘compraventa’ de paquetes”, El Derecho 180, pág. 46.
  • “La irregular irregularidad de las sociedades extranjeras no inscriptas”, El Derecho 170, pág. 378.
  • “Paquetes o líos”, El Derecho 162, pág. 259.
  • “Participación de los Directores en el honorario anual”, El Derecho 82, pág. 964.
  • “Transferencia de paquetes de acciones”, El Derecho 9, pág. 968.
  • “La trabajosa transferencia de acciones”, La Ley 2004-C, pág. 574.
  • “Demasía registral”, La Ley, Suplemento Especial Sociedades Extranjeras año 2003, pág. 56.
  • “La Inspección General de Personas Jurídicas y la representación de las sociedades extranjeras”, La Ley 2002-C, pág. 959.
  • “Negocios sobre acciones y cuotas”, Revista Electrónica de Derecho Societario nº 6, 2001.
  • “El aumento de capital en las sociedades por acciones”, Derecho Empresario, nro.V-B-772.

Miguel A. Sarrabayrouse Bargalló

Founding Partner

Education

  • Attorney, Buenos Aires University Law School (1973).

Professional Experience

  • Public Defender before the Economic Criminal Courts in the Federal District (1975-1980).
  • National Judge on Economic Criminal Law (1980-1983).
  • Judge of the National Court of Appeals on Economic Criminal Law in the City of Buenos Aires (1983-1985).
  • Senior Partner at Petersen, Carena & Asociados (1985-1992).
  • Founding Partner at Roca & Sarrabayrouse.
  • Substitute Judge of the Court of Appeals on Economic Criminal Law in Buenos Aires (years 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007).

Academic Activity

  • Former associate professor of Criminal Procedure at Buenos Aires University Law School.
  • Former professor of Tax Criminal Law in the Graduate Department Buenos Aires University Law School.
  • Senior professor of the Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Law Seminar (1990), adjunct professor of the Post-Graduate Program of Economic Criminal Law (until 1997) and Director of the Post-Graduate Program on Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Law (2009), Austral University Law School.
  • Former associate professor of Economic Criminal Law at the Argentine Business University (UADE).
  • Former and senior professor of Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Law at the Buenos Aires School of Law.
  • Visiting professor at the Conferences on Foreign Trade and Customs Law and at the Intensive Customs Law Post Graduate Program of Torcuato Di Tella University.
  • Co-editor of a Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Draft Bill, designated by the Argentinean Central Bank (1990-1991).
  • Co-editor of the amendment draft bill regarding the criminal aspects of the Customs Law Code, designated by the Economy Commission of the National House of Representatives (1999-2000).
  • Lecturer and speaker at the National Customs Law Symposium organized by the Magistrates and National Justice Officers Association (2005) and at the Third Customs Law National Congress organized by AFIP-DGA (2007).
  • Panelist at the at the Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Law Symposium organized by Argentine Central Bank (2009) and at the Fourth International Symposium on Customs Law organized by the Tax Studies Argentine Association (2011).
  • Lecturer and speaker at many academic and professional associations, such as the Public Bar Association of the Federal District, the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association, the Tax Studies Argentine Association, the Buenos Aires Professional Economic Sciences Council and the Argentine Customs Agents Center.

Membrships and Languages

  • Member and Former President of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Commission of the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association.
  • Member of the Public Economic Law Institute of the Public Bar Association of the Federal District.
  • Charter Member of the Academic Councilor of the Tax Criminal Law Studies Argentine Center (1992-2005).
  • Former President of the Argentine Institute of Customs Studies (2004-2006), of which he has been a main member since 1991.
  • Active member of the Tax Studies Argentine Association.
  • Member of the Banking Attorneys Committee of Argentina.
  • Member the Public Bar Association of the Federal District.
  • He speaks fluent Spanish and English.

Publications

Among others:

  • “El Régimen Penal Cambiario y las exportaciones. Los casos de omisión de ingreso de las divisas y las llamadas “gestiones de cobro” según el BCRA”, Ponencia en conjunto con Juan Manuel SARRABAYROUSE, IV Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho Aduanero, organizadas entre el 14 y el 16 de junio de 2011 por la Asociación Argentina de Estudios Fiscales (AAEF), Errepar, Buenos Aires, 2011.
  • “¿Empresas tras las rejas?”, consultado junto a Facundo SARRABAYROUSE en la nota de autoría Ariel A. NEUMAN publicada en el Cronista Comercial del 10 de agosto de 2010.
  • “Necesidad de reforma del art. 19 de la Ley 19.359”, Ponencia en conjunto con Juan Manuel y Facundo SARRABAYROUSE, Jornadas sobre Régimen Penal Cambiario, organizadas entre el 10 y el 12 de agosto de 2009 por el Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), publicada en la página web del organismo.
  • “El bien jurídico tutelado por el tipo penal de contrabando. ¿Una polémica inconclusa?”, en: COTTER, Juan Patricio (Coordinador), Estudios de Derecho Aduanero. Homenaje al Doctor Juan Patricio Cotter Moine, Editorial Lexis Nexis, Buenos Aires, 2007, págs. 276 y ss.
  • “Necesidad de Reforma de los artículos 947 y 949 del Código Aduanero”, Ponencia en conjunto Roberto Enrique HORNOS, Tercer Congreso de Derecho Aduanero, en publicación por la AFIP-DGA y las Revistas del Instituto Argentino de Estudios Aduaneros y la Asociación de Magistrados, 2007.
  • “Algunas reflexiones sobre el tipo penal de la infracción aduanera de contrabando menor”, Aduana News, Buenos Aires, Octubre 2006.
  • “El encubrimiento en el delito de contrabando” Revista de las Jornadas Nacionales de Derecho Aduanero, Posadas, 2005.
  • “Interpretación Constitucional de la Prisión Preventiva y la Excarcelación”, en coautoría con Juan Manuel y Facundo SARRABAYROUSE, publicado en: El Derecho del lunes 5 de diciembre de 2005.

Facundo Sarrabayrouse

Partner

Education

  • Attorney, Austral University Law School (2007). Graduated with honors and awarded with an academic recognition for the best Legal Research and the “Guillermo A. Borda” award for the highest GPA in Private Law courses.
  • Exchange program, University of California Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California (2006).
  • Awarded with the Distinction for Academic Excellence by the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires (2006).
  • Graduated from the Actualization Program on Customs and Integration Law, Buenos Aires University Law School (2011).
  • Attended the required LLM courses at Austral University (2012-2014).
  • Diploma on Compliance and Criminal Law (2016) and on Litigation in Criminal Law (2021), Austral University Law School.

Professional Experience

  • Paralegal (2005-2007), Associate (2007-2012) and Partner (since 2012) at Roca & Sarrabayrouse.
  • Contributor to the Commission for the Reform of the National Penal Code (Executive Order 103/2017).

Academic Activity

  • Regular professor of Elements of Criminal Law and Procedure of the University of Buenos Aires, School of Law (course of Doctor Eugenio Sarrabayrouse).
  • Professor of the Customs and Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Law Course, LLM degree, and coordinator of the Post-Graduate Program on Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Law (2009), Austral University Law School.
  • Assistant professor of Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Corporate Criminal Law, Austral University Law School.
  • Visiting professor at the Tax Law Specialization of the Argentine Catholic University (Rosario), at the Intensive Customs Law Post Graduate Program of Torcuato Di Tella University; at the Customs Law Post Graduate Program of Austral University and adjunct professor of the Actualization Program on Customs and Integration Law, Buenos Aires University Law School (on customs and Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Law).
  • Member of the Executive Committee and panelist at the Customs Law International Symposium of the Tax Studies Argentine Association at its IV, VII and X edition (2011, 2014 and 2017).
  • Speaker at many academic and professional associations, such as the Public Bar Association of the Federal District, the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association and the Tax Studies Argentine Association.

Memberships and Languages

  • Regular member, Pro-Secretary (2013-2019), Secretay (2019-2021) and President (2021-2023) of the Argentine Institute of Customs Studies (IAEA).
  • Member of the Argentine Association of Tax Studies.
  • Member of the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association and its Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Anti Money Laundering and Compliance (President, 2022-2023) and Young Attorneys Commissions.
  • Member of the Banking Attorneys Committee of Argentina.
  • Member of the Public Bar Association of the Federal District and of the San Isidro Bar Association.
  • He speaks fluent Spanish and English and has basic knowledge of German and French.

Publications

  • “El criterio de realidad económica y su armonizacón con el principio de legalidad”, en coautoría con Juan Manuel SARRABAYROUSE, en: Mariano BORINSKY y Daniel SCHURJIN ALMENAR -dirs.-, Temas de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal, Junio 2021 – Año III, Erreius, Buenos Aires, Argentina, págs. 535-551.
  • “Criminal Law”, en coautoría con Juan Manuel SARRABAYROUSE, en: BASSET, Úrsula (Directora), Introduction to the Law of Argentina, Wolters Kluwer, Holanda, 2018, págs. 233-248.
  • “La doble jurisdicción en materia penal aduanera. Una propuesta de modificación en ocasión de un nuevo Anteproyecto de Reforma del Código Penal de la Nación”, X Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho Aduanero, organizadas entre el 10 y 11 de agosto de 2017 por la Asociación Argentina de Estudios Fiscales (AAEF), Errepar, Buenos Aires, 2017.
  • “P&G: no siempre las triangulaciones son fraudulentas”, Diario La Nación, Sección Economía del 4 de Noviembre de 2014.
  • “Análisis jurídico penal de las triangulaciones en el comercio internacional”, VII Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho Aduanero, organizadas entre el 5 y 6 de agosto de 2014 por la Asociación Argentina de Estudios Fiscales (AAEF), Errepar, Buenos Aires, 2014.
  • “El límite para la utilización de la presunción de incrementos patrimoniales no justificados en materia penal tributaria”, Comentario al fallo “Fort, Ricardo A. s/Inf. Ley 24.769” de la Sala A de la Cámara Nacional de Apelaciones en lo Penal Económico, Revista Argentina de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal, IJ Editores, Número 6, Diciembre de 2012.
  • “El principio de razonabilidad en la interpretación de las infracciones tributarias”, Doctrina Penal Tributaria y Económica Nº 25, noviembre de 2012, Errepar.
  • “La reforma al Régimen Penal Tributario y el principio de legalidad. Un primer análisis de dos implicancias desde el punto de vista constitucional”, Jurisprudencia Argentina, Fascículo 9, 2012-I, págs. 10 y ss.
  • “Responsabilidad de los proveedores y usuarios de servicios de Internet. El estado de la cuestión en el derecho norteamericano”, en PALAZZI, Pablo A. (Coordinador), La responsabilidad civil de los intermediarios de Internet, Abeledo Perrot, Buenos Aires 2012, págs. 45 y ss.
  • “Una interpretación del tipo objetivo del delito de evasión tributaria”, Comentario al fallo “Cargill SACEI s/Inf. Ley 24.769”de la Sala A de la Cámara Nacional de Apelaciones en lo Penal Económico, Revista Argentina de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal, IJ Editores, Número 1, Noviembre de 2011.
  • “Análisis dogmático del tipo de contrabando simple a treinta años de su sanción. Una aproximación desde la teoría de los bienes jurídicos como objeto de tutela del derecho penal”, en: COTTER, Juan Patricio (Coordinador), Estudios de Derecho Aduanero. Homenaje a los 30 años el Código Aduanero, Abeledo Perrot, Buenos Aires, 2011, págs. 531 y ss.
  • “¿Empresas tras las rejas?”, consultado junto a Miguel Ángel SARRABAYROUSE BARGALLÓ en la nota de autoría Ariel A. NEUMAN publicada en el Cronista Comercial del 10 de agosto de 2010.
  • “La ilegítima expansión del ius puniendi en materia penal cambiaria”, en: RUBINSKA, Ramiro M. y SCHURJIN ALMENAR, Daniel (Coordinadores), Derecho Penal Económico, Tomo I, Marcial Pons, Buenos Aires, 2010, págs. 967 y ss.
  • “Imputación objetiva, fraude inmobiliario y delito de estelionato”, en: YACOBUCCI, Guillermo J. (Director), LAPORTA, Mario H. y RAMÍREZ, Nicolás D. (Coordinadores), Derecho Penal Empresario, Editorial BdeF, Buenos Aires, 2010, págs. 299 y ss.
  • “La responsabilidad penal por el monitoreo del correo electrónico en la empresa”, en coautoría con Juan Manuel SARRABAYROUSE, El Cronista Comercial del martes 9 de marzo de 2010.
  • “Sanción penal de infracciones al régimen de cambios”, Diario Uno de Mendoza, Domingo 25 de abril de 2010.
  • “A comparative overview of extradition on Argentinean and American law”, Suplemento de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal, El Dial del Lunes 14 de mayo del 2007.
  • “El delito de asociación ilícita, su posible imputación a la actividad de profesionales”, Revista Argentina de Derecho Tributario, Diciembre 2005, Universidad Austral.
  • “Interpretación constitucional de la prisión preventiva y la excarcelación”, en coautoría con Juan Manuel SARRABAYROUSE, publicado en: El Derecho del lunes 5 de diciembre de 2005.

Juan Manuel Sarrabayrouse

Partner

Education

  • Attorney, Austral University Law School (2007). Graduated with honors.
  • Exchange program, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina (2006).
  • Awarded with the Distinction for Academic Excellence by the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires (2006).
  • Specialist on Criminal Law, Austral University Law School (2012). Summa cum laude and was awarded with an academic recognition for the best Legal Research.
  • LLM on Criminal Law, Austral University Law School (2013). Summa cum laude and was awarded with the best thesis on legal doctrine award.
  • Diploma in Cybercrime and Digital Innovation (Universidad Hartmann of México, 2020) and in Management and Strategy in Cybersecurity (University of CEMA of Buenos Aires, 2021).

Professional Experience

  • Paralegal (2005-2007), Associate (2007-2012) and Partner (since 2012) at Roca & Sarrabayrouse.
  • Contributor to the “Innocence Project”, a pro bono activity coordinated by Duke University School of Law where he advised convicted individuals from low income backgrounds on Criminal Law.
  • Contributor to the Commission for the Reform of the National Penal Code (Executive Order 103/2017).

Academic Activity

  • Professional adjunct professor of Criminal Law I, and Corporate Criminal Law, Austral University Law School.
  • Assistant professor of Elements of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, University of Buenos Aires Law School.
  • Professor of the subject Felonies Related to Foreign Trade in the “Introduction to Foreign Trade: Legal Aspects for non Lawyers” Program of the Argentine Institute of Customs Studies and the Navigation Center.
  • Professor of the subject Cyberfrauds of the International Diploma on Cybercrime and Technologies Applied to the Investigations of the OCEDIC (Cybercrime Observatory), Austral University and Universitat Abat Oliba CEU.
  • Professor of the subject Foreign Currency Exchange Crimes of the Economic Criminal Law Diploma at Austral University.
  • Professor of Capsule 2 (Cyberfrauds) of the “Cybercrime and Investigation and Litigation in Digital Environments” Training Program of United for Justice – CEJA – JSCA (2022).
  • Professor of the lecture on Cyberfrauds of the Cybercrime Diploma at Universidad del Este – La Plata (2022).
  • Professor of the lecture on “Attempted Contraband” of the “Criminal Regime on Drug Traffic” of the Law Degree at Buenos Aires University -UBA- (2021).
  • Assistant professor of Constitutional Law, Criminal Law I and Corporate Criminal Law, Austral University Law School (2005-2017).
  • Professor of the Customs and Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Law Course, LLM degree, and coordinator of the Post-Graduate Program on Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Law (2009), Austral University Law School.
  • Professor of Criminology and Criminal Policy of the Certificated Course “Leonardo da Vinci”, Buenos Aires Professional Economic Sciences Council -CPCECABA- (2016).
  • Visiting professor of “Omission and Objective Criminal Imputation”, of the Certificated Course “Fundamentals and Practice of the Objective Criminal Imputation”, National University of La Plata Law School (2016).
  • Former assistant professor of Media Law, Austral University Social Communication School (2010).
  • Visiting professor at the Foreign Exchange and Customs Law Seminar and at the Intensive Customs Law Post Graduate Program of Torcuato Di Tella University (2013-2018).
  • Panelist at Foreign Currency Exchange Criminal Law Seminar organized by the Argentine Central Bank (2009), at the IV edition of the Customs Law International Symposium of the Tax Studies Argentine Association (2011), and at the III Encounter of Young Criminalists organized by the Argentine Association of Criminal Law Professors and Austral University Law School (2016).
  • Secretary of panel I (“Foreign currency exchange regulation of imports and exports”) at the IV edition of the Customs Law International Symposium of the Tax Studies Argentine Association (2011).
  • Lecturer and speaker at many academic and professional associations, such as the Public Bar Association of the Federal District, the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association and the Tax Studies Argentine Association.

Memberships and Languages

  • Regular member and Board Member (2014-2020) of the Argentine Institute of Customs Studies (IAEA).
  • Member of the Argentine Association of Tax Studies.
  • Member of the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association and its Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Anti Money Laundering and Compliance, and Young Attorneys Commissions.
  • Member of the Banking Attorneys Committee of Argentina.
  • Member of the Public Bar Association of the Federal District and of the San Isidro Bar Association.
  • Member of the Alumni Association of the Austral University.
  • He speaks fluent Spanish and English and has basic knowledge of German and French.

Publications

  • “Análisis Político-criminal del Ciberfraude Bancario y Propuesta para una Respuesta Penal Adecuada en la República Argentina”, en: DUPUY, Daniela S. (Directora) y BAUDINO, Federico (Coordinador), Innovación en Investigaciones Digitales, Editorial Hammurabi, Buenos Aires, 2022, págs. 176 y ss.
  • “El criterio de realidad económica y su armonizacón con el principio de legalidad”, en coautoría con Facundo SARRABAYROUSE, en: Mariano BORINSKY y Daniel SCHURJIN ALMENAR -dirs.-, Temas de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal, Junio 2021 – Año III, Erreius, Buenos Aires, Argentina, págs. 535-551.
  • “Tentativa de contrabando. Análisis del criterio de necesidad para la equiparación punitiva con el delito consumado”, publicado en Carlos M. GONZÁLEZ GUERRA, Mario H. LAPORTA y Nicolás D. RAMÍREZ -dirs.-, Anuario de la Revista Argentina de Derecho Penal y Procesal Penal, Tomo 7 -2019-, IJ Editores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, págs. 93-113.
  • “Criminal Law”, en coautoría con Facundo SARRABAYROUSE, en: BASSET, Úrsula (Directora), Introduction to the Law of Argentina, Wolters Kluwer, Holanda, 2018, págs. 233-248.
  • “La equiparación punitiva entre el contrabando tentado y consumado en el Código Aduanero y en el Proyecto de Reforma de Código Penal de la Nación del año 2018”, publicado en la Revista de Derecho en Comercio Exterior, Núm. 1, septiembre de 2018, IJ Editores, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • “Criterios de legitimación de la prisión preventiva. Análisis comparativo del sistema internacional de los derechos humanos y su aplicación en el derecho doméstico”, en coautoría con Solange CAPUYA, Jorge ÁLVAREZ, Juan M. CES COSTA, Mauricio Salvador BLANCO, Verónica SORIA, Laura GRECO, Daniel RAMOS YRIGOYEN, Revista de Derecho penal y criminología, La Ley, Año 1, Núm. 3, 2011.
  • “Tentativa de contrabando: el artículo 872 del Código Aduanero y la equiparación punitiva con el delito consumado”, en: COTTER, Juan Patricio (Coordinador), Estudios de Derecho Aduanero. Homenaje a los 30 años el Código Aduanero, Abeledo Perrot, Buenos Aires, 2011, págs. 561 y ss.
  • “El Régimen Penal Cambiario y las exportaciones. Los casos de omisión de ingreso de las divisas y las llamadas “gestiones de cobro” según el BCRA”, Ponencia en conjunto con el Doctor Miguel Ángel SARRABAYROUSE BARGALLÓ, IV Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho Aduanero, organizadas entre el 14 y el 16 de junio de 2011 por la Asociación Argentina de Estudios Fiscales (AAEF), Errepar, Buenos Aires 2011.
  • “El fallo “Luque s/Infracción a la ley 22.415” y la vuelta al debate sobre la tentativa de contrabando”, publicado en Suplemento de Derecho Aduanero y Comercio Exterior, El Dial del miércoles 18 de junio de 2011.
  • “La responsabilidad penal por el monitoreo del correo electrónico en la empresa”, en coautoría con Facundo SARRABAYROUSE, artículo en el periódico El Cronista Comercial del martes 9 de marzo de 2010.
  • “Necesidad de reforma del art. 19 de la Ley 19.359”, Ponencia en conjunto con Miguel Ángel SARRABAYROUSE BARGALLÓ y Facundo SARRABAYROUSE, Jornadas sobre Régimen Penal Cambiario, organizadas entre el 10 y el 12 de agosto de 2009 por el Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA), publicada en la página web del organismo.
  • “Delimitación y aspectos dogmáticos del tipo penal de agiotaje”, en: YACOBUCCI, Guillermo J. (Director), LAPORTA, Mario H. y RAMÍREZ, Nicolás D. (Coordinadores), Derecho Penal Empresario, Editorial BdeF, Buenos Aires, 2010, págs. 513 y ss.
  • “Una Cámara que nace sin competencia”, publicado en: Sección “Actualidad”, La Ley del 30 de septiembre de 2008.
  • “Interpretación Constitucional de la Prisión Preventiva y la Excarcelación”, en coautoría con Facundo SARRABAYROUSE, publicado en: El Derecho del lunes 5 de diciembre de 2005.

Martin Casagrande

Associate

Education

  • Attorney, University of Buenos Aires Law School (2018).
  • LLM on Criminal Law, Austral University Law School (2020-2022).

Professional Experience

  • Associate at Roca & Sarrabayrouse.
  • Paralegal (2017-2018) and Associate (2019-2021) at Cainzos, Fernández & Premrou.

Academic Activity

  • Guest professor of Elements of Criminal Law and Procedure of the University of Buenos Aires, School of Law (course of Doctor Eugenio Sarrabayrouse).
  • Has attended and participated in several conferences and seminars on Tax Law, Criminal Law and Economic Criminal Law.

Memberships and Languages

  • Member of the Public Bar Association of the Federal District.
  • He speaks fluent Spanish and English.

Cecilia Brissolese Vivino

Associate

Education

  • Attorney, Catholic University of Argentina Law School (2020), Graduated with honoras.
  • Course of Introduction to the Organized Crime Problematic, Department of Political Sciences and International Relationships, Faculty of Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Argentina (2020).
  • Recognition to the academic performance in the Law degree, El Derecho Editions (2021).
  • Postgraduate Diploma on Criminal Law, University of Palermo (2021-2022).
  • LLM on Criminal Law, Austral University Law School (2023-2024).

Professional Experience

  • Associate at Roca & Sarrabayrouse.
  • Assistant at the Criminal Execution Court Num. 3 (2020-2021) and Official at the Criminal Oral Court Num. 6 (2021-2022) of the Judiciary Section of San Martín, Judiciary Power of the Province of Buenos Aires.
  • Paralegal at Roca & Sarrabayrouse (2019-2020).
  • Paralegal at the Departments of Information Center (2017-2019) and Litigation (2019) at Bruchou, Fernández Madero & Lombardi Law Firm.

Academic Activity

  • “Lawyer of the Year” (TrustLaw Awards, 2019) recognition to the participation in the international coordination of the investigation “Education in Rural Contexts: a route through 7 countries”, Thompson Reuters Foundation.

Memberships and Languages

  • Member of the Public Bar Association of the Federal District.
  • She speaks fluent Spanish, English and Italian and has knowledge of French.

Diego Sarrabayrouse

Of Counsel

Education

  • Attorney, Argentine Pontifical Catholic University (UCA) Law School (1998).
  • LLM on Corporate Law, Austral University Law School (2005).

Professional Experience

  • Of Counsel expert on Compliance and Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing matter at Roca & Sarrabayrouse.
  • Independent professional on Corporate Law.
  • Chief of Staff at the Financial Information Unit (2018-2020).
  • Deputy Director of International Affairs of the Financial Information Unit (2016-2018).
  • Partner at García Cuerva (2000-2016).
  • Executive Secretary in charge of the National Program of Monitoring in the Implementation of Politics for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing of the Justice and Human Rights National Ministry (2011-2015).
  • Secretary of the Board of Directors of Aerolíneas Argentinas S.A and Austral S.A. Group.
  • Officer of the National Criminal and Correctional Court of Appeals of the City of Buenos Aires (1996-1999).
  • Administrative Officer of Letter “A” Criminal and Correctional Court of Sentence (1995-1996).

Academic Activity

  • Professor of the Post-Graduate Department of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) Law School on the “Actualization Program on Global Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing” (2012-2014).
  • Professor of the Argentine Pontifical Catholic University (UCA) Law School on the “Program on Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing” (2017-2019).
  • Professor of the course “Prevention and Fight against Money Laundering” of the Economics and Business School of the Catholic University of Salta (UCASAL) (2018).

Memberships and Languages

  • Plenary member of the Commercial Law Institute of the Public Bar Association of the Federal District.
  • Expert Evaluator of the 40 Recommendations of FATF on Fight Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing matter, designated by GAFILAT (Financial Action Task Force of Latin America) n the “XIII Seminar for GAFILAT Evaluators” (Rio de Janeiro, Federative Republic of Brazil, November, 2013).
  • Expert designated by the Financial Information Unit as Specialist for the Argentine Republic in the Mechanism of Revision and Implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC).
  • President of the Public Hearing held on February 14th, 2014, under the scope of article 9, section e), of Law 25.246 for the designation of President and Vice-President of the Financial Information Unit.
  • He speaks fluent Spanish and English.

Lectures and Dissertations

  • Lecturer at the “Tax Law Seminar” organized by the Bar of Notaries Public of the Province of Buenos Aires (September, 2019).
  • Lecturer at the “Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Symposium”, coordinated by Justice Michael Hopmeier, Judge of Southwark Crown Court of the United Kindom, at the British Embassy in the City of Buenos Aires, on August 21st and 22nd, 2019.
  • Speaker at the “Actualization Program on AML/TF Banks & Credit Cards under the latest Financial Information Unit regulations” organized by FORUM, held at the City of Buenos Aires, August 28th, 2019.
  • Representative of the Argentine Delegation before the Work Group on Bribery in International Commercial Transactions of the OECD during the process of membership of the Argentine Republic (Phase III bis – follow up), held at the OECD headquarters in Paris, June 25th to 28th, 2019.
  • Speaker at the 11th International Seminar on Compliance organized by Business Compliance Solutions (BCS) held on April 11th, 2019, at the Four Seasons Hotel in the City of Buenos Aires.
  • Speaker at the “9th Southamerican Congress on Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing”, organized by FORUM and held in the City of Buenos Aires, on March 21st and 22nd, 2019.
  • Speaker at the “Second UN High Level Conference on South  South Cooperation” organized by The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held in the City of Buenos Aires, on March 21st, 2019.
  • Lecturer at the “IIIrd National Congress of Legal Entities and Public Registries Control Organisms”, held in the City of Mar del Plata, on November 15th and 16th, 2018.
  • Speaker at the “Compliance and Legal Entity Criminal Liability” breakfast organized by AUREN, on October 4th, 2018.
  • Lecturer at the Training Workshop for employees and officers of the Financial Information Unit about International Trends and Context on Anti Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, held on June, 2018.
  • Lecturer at the Training Workshop on “Prevention, Detection, Report and Investigation of National and Foreign Bribery: Promoting Better International Practices for the Fight against Money Laundering” and “Promoting Transparency of Information about the Final Beneficiary in Argentina”, organized by the Financial Information Unit, Govrisk (The International Governance & Risk Institute) and the United Kingdom Embassy in the Argentine Republic, on November 19th and 30th, 2017, respectively.
  • Speaker of the “9th International Seminar on Compliance”, organized by Business Compliance Solutions (BCS), on July 5th, 2017.
  • Speaker at the “Conference about Tools in the Fight against Money Launderng; the Financial Information Unit and the Treatment, Analysis and Dissemintation of National and International Information”, organized by the Regional Coastal Agency of the Financial Information Unit”, in the City of Posadas, Province of Misiones, on April, 2017.
  • Speaker and organizer with the Financial Information Unit and the National Direction of the National Registries of the Automotive Property of the “Conference on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Prevention”, held on October 3rd and 10th, 2013, at the Auditorium of the Argentine National Bank.
  • Speaker and organizer with the Financial Information Unit of the “Conference on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Prevention”, held in the city of Posadas, Province of Misiones, on June 7th, 2013, at the School of Economic Sciences of the National University of Misiones.
  • Speaker in representation of the Argentine Republic at the ENCCLA 2013 (National Strategy Against Corruption and Money Laundering), held in the City of Joao Pessoa, State of Paraíba, Federative Republic of Brazil, on November 26th and 30th, 2012.
  • Organizer and moderator of the “International Congress on Prevention and Sanction of Money Laundering”, held at the City of Iguazú, Province of Misiones, on October 1st, 2012.
  • Speaker at the First Regional Encounter on “Illegal Origin Asset Recovery”, held on August 23rd, 2012, at the Auditorium of the Argentine National Bank and organized by the National Registry of Seized Assets during Criminal Procedures.
  • Representative of the Argentine delegation before the Work Groups of FATF/GAFI y and FAFLAT (2016-2019).

Publications

  • Coordinator of the book “Money Laundering. Prevention and Sanction”, published on November, 2012, edited by Infojus Publishers of the National Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
  • Author of the article “Money Laundering and Tax Havens”, published in the book “Money Laundering. Prevention and Sanction”, edited by Infojus Publishers of the National Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
  • Author of the article “Asset Recovery from a Prespective Related to Money Laundering”, published in the book “Global Perspective on Illegal Origin Asset Recovery”, edited by Infojus Publishers of the National Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (January, 2013).