The value of the word,
placed at the service of our clients
in a frank, efficient and professional relationship.
OVER 55 YEARS PROVIDING LEGAL SOLUTIONS
We are a law firm with more than half a century offering solid and professional solutions
in different areas of law. More than half a century rendering legal services by looking in
the eye, shaking hands and keeping our word, always. More than half a century serving
our clients with the firm conviction of setting bonds that last beyond time.
Founded by Luis Cornu Labat in 1967, our firm focuses on different areas of law practice through a qualified team of experts, ready to deliver the legal solutions our clients
require, right on time. Today, under the direction of a new generation, CORNU LABAT
ABOGADOS continues growing, practicing law as an authentic service, dedicated and
committed to achieving the response that clients need.
PRACTICE AREAS
- Shareholders Agreements
- Registrations and corporate records
- Representation of companies
- Corporate restructuring
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Transfers of goodwill
- Joint ventures.
- Restructurings
- Incorporation of corporate structures
- Private equity.
- Venture capital.
- Corporate governance
- Foreign investments
- Preparation and negotiation of all types of commercial contracts.
- Business cooperation contracts, associations, temporary business unions (“UTEs”) and strategic alliances.
- Agency, distribution and commercial representation contracts, concession, franchise, transportation, services and leasing.
- Drafting and negotiation of individual employment contracts.
- Collective negotiations and structuring of labor relations.
- Disengagements of executives and hierarchical employees.
- Advice on union conflicts.
- Immigration issues and compensation structure.
- Adjustment of multinational business policies to Argentine legislation.
- Labor law litigation and dispute resolution.
- Litigation in commercial, labor, civil, federal administrative and tax courts.
- Credit recovery actions.
- National and international arbitrations.
- Purchase, sale and development of real estate projects.
- Construction contracts.
- Real Estate leasing
- Financing, mortgages and executions.
- Trusts.
- Properties in security zones and frontiers. Land Act.
- Environmental impact and natural resources.
- Strategic business advice, analysis of new businesses and the impact of operations and changing scenarios on the taxpayer's business.
- Prior advice, legal representation in court on suits or defensive appeals on behalf of the taxpayer at the federal, provincial and municipal jurisdictions.
- Advice on transactions involving two or more jurisdictions, both between related or independent entities.
- National and international tax planning.
- Advice on customs, tax and sanctionative procedural regimes.
- Legal representation at administrative and judicial courts.
- Filings with Customs, National Tax Court and Federal Courts.
- Business Criminal Law
- Criminal Tax Law
- Customs Criminal Law
- Criminal Foreign Exchange Law
- Environmental Criminal Law.
- Cybercrime.
- Intellectual and industrial property crimes
- International and cabotage cargo transportation.
- Purchase and sale of vessels, bareboat, time and voyage charters.
- Financing and Ship Building.
- Registrations with the Argentine Maritime Authority and the National Ship Registry.
- Litigation and administrative proceedings.
- Constitution and registration of trust deeds.
- Trust Services.
- Asset planning.
- Advice on insolvency proceedings, bankruptcies and creditor rights, both for bankrupt companies, creditors and syndics.
- Representation of creditors in their verification proceedings and eventual collection of their credits.
- Advice on extrajudicial preventive agreements and debt swaps.
⦁ Inheritance planning, preparation of wills.
⦁ Intestate and testamentary successions.
⦁ Interjurisdictional successions.
⦁ Legal representation with Public Agencies and regulatory entities.
⦁ Tenders. Public procurement procedures.
⦁ Appeal petitions with administrative agencies and interaction with Public Entities.
⦁ Leasing.
⦁ Financial trusts.
⦁ Real Estate and agrobusiness financing.
⦁ Public Debt.
⦁ Foreign exchange and capital control.
⦁ Argentine Central Bank proceedings.
⦁ Portfolio acquisitions.
⦁ Crypto assets and digital assets
⦁ Tokenization of assets
⦁ Payment services suppliers
⦁ Electronic money issuers (fiat)
⦁ Electronic wallet operators and administrators
⦁ Digital loans
⦁ Crowdfunding
Luis Alberto Cornu Labat
He obtained his law degree from the School of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Buenos Aires on March 31, 1967, the year he founded Estudio Cornu Labat.
Santiago Cornu Labat
He is a lawyer graduated from the School of Law of the Universidad Católica Argentina in 1993. He obtained his Master in Laws degree from the Faculty of Law of Duke University, USA in 1998-1999.
María Cornu Labat
Lawyer from the Argentine Catholic University, with a Master's Degree in Marriage and Family from the University of Navarra (Spain, 2014) and Family Team Coach at the University of La Sabana, Colombia.
Ignacio Correa Luna
He is a lawyer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 2007. He worked at the GUIRAO & PEREYRA MOINE Firm from 2001 to 2023. Since then he has provided professional services independently.
Carlos Forcada
Lawyer, University of Buenos Aires (1989) and Professor of Law at the Argentine Catholic University. He studied specialization in tax law, also at the UBA (1991–1993).
Ignacio Martínez Serra
Ignacio is a lawyer graduated from the Universidad Católica Argentina (2012). He has completed a Master's Degree in Economic Business Law at the Universidad Católica Argentina (2016).
Felipe Ries Centeno
Felipe is a lawyer graduated from the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (2003). He is director of Saint Germain S.R.L., a trust company, and author of various articles about Trust and its characteristicst.
Juan Manuel Sansile
Juan Manuel is a lawyer graduated from the Argentine Catholic University (2010). He has written articles published in various legal journals, focused on negotiation, mediation and arbitration.
Emilio Carlos Sojo
Lawyer from the Argentine Catholic University (2003), with a specialization degree in individual Labor Law and a postgraduate degree in Business Labor Consulting.
Julián Subías
Julián is a lawyer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (1991), with postgraduate studies at the University of Salamanca, Spain (1995), specialized in criminal law.
Roberto Alonso Garcés
He obtained his law degree at the School of Law of the University El Salvador in 1983. He is member of the Commercial Law Institute of the Argentine Notarial University.
MANIFEST
We believe that, through the practice of law, we can make the world a fairer place.
We believe in the values of those who raised their voices to teach us not to give in to injustice.
We believe in the law of true gentlemen, the one we practice, day by day.
We believe in the value of the word, in shaking hands and looking in the eyes.
Creemos que la profesión debe ejercerse, ante todo,
como un servicio para atender y defender los derechos del cliente.
That is our commitment.
Santiago Cornu Labat, 2024.
