"Marval O'Farrell Mairal has a very solid and experienced team. There are specialists in various topics and they are very proactive."
Chambers Latin America, 2025
Marval O'Farrell Mairal leads the compliance, anti-corruption and investigations practice in Argentina, providing both local and international companies with sophisticated legal counseling on compliance programs, anti-corruption compliance due diligence in M&A transactions, internal investigations, and cases before regulatory authorities and courts.
We advise local and foreign companies on:
- Developing, implementing and auditing compliance programs (risk analysis, codes and policies, trainings).
- Performing anti-corruption background checks of both individuals and legal entities.
- Conducting anti-corruption and due diligence and providing counsel in relation to legal structures in M&A and other relevant transactions.
- Reviewing documents through specific e-discovery tools.
- Analysing and drafting complex anti-corruption contractual clauses.
- Conducting internal corporate investigations and related legal and remedial actions.
- Evaluating specific corporate actions under applicable anti-corruption regulations (gifts to public officials, facilitation payments, political campaign contributions, donations, government contracts).
- Advising on the complex interactions between local anti-corruption regulations and relevant foreign laws, such as the US FCPA, the UK Bribery Act, and Brazilian Anti-Corruption Law No. 12,846.
- Advising on investigations conducted by the authorities.
- Designing and implementing comprehensive legal strategies in corruption-related cases before regulatory authorities and courts.
- Analyzing ethical issues that could affect reputation.
- Handling crisis situations.
- Tracking and recovering assets.
- Advising on due diligence questionnaires.
We advise on both local and cross-border cases, and have vast experience in the interplay between local and foreign anti-corruption regulations, as well as working closely with foreign lawyers, IT forensics experts, forensic expert accountants, and public relations consultants to put together the most appropriate teams to handle each case.
Our team members are dedicated to this practice full time and are leaders in their practice area at the regional level.
Our team is made up of experts who have worked and obtained LL.M. degrees abroad, have held senior compliance positions within companies, are pioneers in teaching compliance courses in law schools and are admitted to the bar abroad.
Our experts are frequent speakers at international conferences, teach certification and university compliance courses, and participate in leading publications both in Argentina and abroad.
Our team works together with experts from other areas of the firm to efficiently deal with the multiple legal consequences that arise in compliance cases involving criminal, administrative, regulatory, contractual, labor, tax, customs, corporate, data privacy, corporate governance, capital markets, insurance, and antitrust law, and other relevant legal issues in cases of corruption, bribery, money laundering, fraud, conflicts of interest, government contracts and others.
We offer our clients sophisticated, comprehensive, effective and tailored counseling, based on over a decade of experience in this practice and the full range of services provided by our firm.
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