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FIRM PROFILE
 The firm

We are a law firm that offers a personalized and multidisciplinary attention, answering
to the needs of our clients in agile and efficient way in every moment, such as growth and
expansion, or in difficult situations of redefinition of business.

 Integral and personalized offer

In V&A we characterize ourselves in offering an integrated approach of different

disciplines of law issues, bringing creativity, exhaustive analysis and intelligence.

Also in V&A we offer a personalized and direct attention to our clients, in order to
know the specific individual problematic of your business.

The common effort, the teamwork, the global analysis of all the juridical specialities,
the comprehension of business and its diferents realities allow us to optimize the results
towards an effective and complete case resolution.

We have wide experience in international projects being employed at form coordinated

with the legal foreign advisers, and we also have counselours all over the country.

 Clients

We offer our services to numerous local and foreign enterprises of varied importance
and to businessmen and investors, with active participation in industry, product marketing,
services and commodities, agro and construction, and other business lines.

PRACTICE AREAS
 Corporate Law

V&A ´s lawyers are experts in corporate law. This expertise enables us to deal with all
types of cases, from the simple, routine ones to complex transactions and litigation within
our areas of specialization. Our services include, for example:

1. Incorporating subsidiaries and registering branches.

2. Representing issuers, investment banks and private investors in equity and debt
offerings.
3. Preparing and filing documentation required under public offer rules.
 4. Preparing and negotiating stockholders, limited partnership, and joint venture
agreements.
5. Advising boards of directors.
6. Advising and representing shareholders in derivative suits and similar cases.

 Bunkruptcy. Insolvency.

We represent clients in connection with insolvency proceedings both as debtors,

creditors, acquirers and others under the Bankruptcy Law No. 24.522.

 Mergers and Adquisitons

Our firm has a strong mergers and acquisition practice. We have counseled buyers and
sellers in a wide variety of M&A transactions. Throughout the process, we focus on our
client's critical objectives, whether they are maximizing the value of their assets,
minimizing potential liabilities, or simple getting the deal done.

 Labor and Social Security Law

Our attorneys regularly counsel and advise numerous employers, on all aspects of labor
and employment relations. Much of our work and advice is preventive in nature, conducted
with the goal of minimizing or eliminating the employer's exposure to liability and costly
litigation. Once an issue has arisen or an action is filed, we can handle all phases of dispute
resolution.

 Tax Law

At V&A we provide general corporate tax advice to our clients. Our tax practice covers
national and local taxes and includes the following services: tax planning, advice, and
representation of our clients in administrative and/or judicial procedures and/or actions.

In cooperative mode with the litigation department, we provide general advice and we
represent our clients in tax-related claims, motions, controversies and/or litigations before
tax authorities and federal and local courts.

 Litigation

Our litigation attorneys have gained extensive experience in all type of proceedings
(ordinary, executive, bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings), acting either for
plaintiffs and defendants. Furthermore, the solid academic background of our litigation
attorneys together with the interdisciplinary work with the other members of this law firm,
add a special value to our litigation attorneys. We represent clients in courts in a wide range
of cases such as:

1. Civil and commercial litigation, administrative proceedings and alternative dispute

resolution.
2. Product liability cases.
 3. Antitrust and consumer claims.
4. Insurance claims.
5. Enforcement of foreign judgments and awards in Argentina.
6. Advising on bankruptcy and creditors' rights, including recovery of debts

 Commercial Agreements (Distribution, Licensing and Franchise).

V&A advises domestic and foreign clients in negotiating agency, distribution, franchise
and licensing agreements of all types. Our firm also represents licensors in overseeing
performance of licensee obligations and advises them with respect to early termination of
licensing agreements.

 Antitrust and Consumer Law. Product Liability.

V&A has developed a very strong practice in these fields, which complements its long-
standing expertise in antitrust compliance audits of marketing strategies, joint ventures,
distribution, licensing and franchising agreements, as well as in the representation of clients
in all kinds of administrative and judicial proceedings relating to antitrust and consumer
law matters.

Also, we act as counsel in many large and complex cases involving allegations of
personal injury, property damage or economic loss resulting from product defects or
exposure to toxic substances, patents and copyright.

 Financings

Our lawyers have advised on matters ranking from commercial or syndicated loans to
capital market transactions, direct investments, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations,
collections, debt-to-equity conversions, financial leasing, trade financing, and letters of
credit.

 Trusts and Securitizations

We have a vast experience in this area as a result of the representation of several local
and international transactions. We are deeply involved in the vast uses, alternatives and
developments of trust structures which are relatively recent in Argentine legislation.

 Foreign Investments and International Transactions

At V&A we provide to foreign clients that wish to invest in the Argentina with a wide
range of legal services. We assist foreign clients in designing suitable corporate structures
to run their operations in the country, including forming corporations, partnerships,
branches, subsidiaries, representations, licensed operations, joint ventures and corporate
agreements and in the drafting and negotiation of contracts in connection with international
business transactions and transfers of technology. Also, we represent clients in the
international sale and purchase of goods and services, exports and imports, financing and
leasing, international arbitration and antidumping.
  Real Estate Transactions

We advise clients on all aspects of real estate acquisition, development, financing,

ownership, leasing and operation. We provide clients with an effective legal representation
notwithstanding the location, size, staffing needs or time constraints of any transaction. Our
practice includes assisting local and offshore clients in structuring and closing real estate
investments in Argentina. This representation also involves all types of debt and equity
transactions.

 Corporate Criminal Law

V&A has established a Corporate Criminal Law Department that offers to all of its
clients a detailed counselling on the subject. The lawyers of this Law Department have vast
judicial and professional experience in this Area. The Corporate profile of the Firm, is the
foundation of the creation of a Corporate Criminal Law focused and specialized in the
corporate service. The Department seeks to achieve a corporate criminal counselling that
brings assisstance both for the internal control mechanisms of the institutions (aiming to
prevent different kinds of fraud and/or ilicits that the commercial organizations may be
object of) and for the legal defenses before imputations from the pertaining judicial
organisms.

OUR PROFESIONALS
Antonio Alberto Vila
Juan Gerónimo Cortes Funes
Daniel Ravinovich
Damián Alberto Vila
Fernando Martín Vila
Hernán Mariano Domínguez
Axel Norman Tomada
Lorena Mayor

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