Patricia López Aufranc

Patricia joined Marval O’Farrell Mairal as a partner in 1987 specializing in corporate, finance and international trade. Since August 2017 she is of counsel within the firm.

Her practice has focused on international financial and commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, anti-dumping investigations, and a wide range of business contracts.

Before joining the firm she worked for The First National Bank of Boston, in Boston, from 1985 until 1986. She also worked for the law firm of Klein & Mairal from 1979 until 1984 and for the Office Juridique Français et International in Paris between 1978 and 1979.

She graduated from the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires in 1975. She also obtained a Diplôme Supérieur in Corporate Law from the School of Law of the University of Paris II (Panthéon)in 1977 and a Master in Laws (LL.M.) from the Law School of Harvard University in 1985.

She has been a professor of International Business Transactions for Southwestern University School of Law Summer Law Program in Argentina from 1994 to 1999. She also taught Capital Markets regulation at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires between 2001 and 2005 and she lectures at several local universities.

She has published articles in Argentina and abroad and regularly makes presentations in local and international forums related to her field of practice.

Presently she is vice-president of the Business Law Commission of the Buenos Aires Bar Association as is a member of the International Bar Association and chair of the Corporations Commission of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA). She was a founding member and chair of the Argentine Forum of Executive Women (FAME).

Ms. Lopez Aufranc sat on the board of directors of Universidad San Andrés and presently sits on the Board of the Harvard Club of Argentina, the Museum of Modern Art, Planet Finance Foundation and the Argentine Forum of Executive Women (FAME).
She has been identified as leading lawyer in banking, capital markets and international trade by several publications including Euromoney Publications, Chambers, Global Counsel 3000 and Latin Lawyer.