Marcelo Etchebarne

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

• Counsel to Jefferies on Stoneway Capital's US$500 million project bond and its US$165 million follow on (deal of the year in Latam by Latin Finance)
• Counsel to the Ad-hoc Creditors Committee on YPF's 6.2 billion debt restructuring
• Counsel to Vicentin on its US$1.5 billion debt restructuring
• Counsel to multiple banks and the Province of Buenos Aires in over 40 international bond offerings made by the Province of Buenos Aires since 1998 to date
• Counsel to Citigroup and the Province of Buenos Aires (PBA) in PBA's US$2.8 billion debt restructuring
• Counsel to JP Morgan in the debt restructuring of a US$250 million bond issued by the Province of Mendoza and to Barclays Capital on its reopening
• Issuer and underwriter's capital markets counsel in transactions for the Provinces of Chaco, Chubut, Formosa, Entre Ríos, La Rioja, Mendoza, Neuquén, San Juan, Santa Fe and Salta
• Debtor's counsel on the recent debt exchanges and consent solicitations made by the Provinces of Mendoza, Chaco, Entre Rios, Chubut, Salta and Buenos Aires
• Underwriter's counsel for UBS, Citi, Beal West LB, Salomon Brothers, Credit Suisse, Raymond James, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, JP Morgan and other banks on corporate debt and equity offerings
• Special counsel to Pioneer and Apache on the US$600 million acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources' assets in Argentina, among other notable acquisitions
• Counsel to GP Investments, Temasek and LAIG in the US$1 billion acquisition of Pride International's assets in Latin America
• Counsel in the sale of British Gas equity interest in MetroGAS one of the largest natural gas distributors in Latin America
• Counsel to JP Morgan on the debt restructuring of MetroGAS
• Counsel to AYSA on its US$500 million inaugural bond offering
• Buyer's counsel in two attempts to acquire YPF

• Chambers Global
  2022 - Band 2, Argentina Banking & Finance
  2019-21 - Band 2, Argentina Banking & Finance
• Chambers Latin America
  2023 - Band 2, Argentina Banking & Finance
  2020-22 - Band 2, Argentina Banking & Finance
• The Legal 500 Latin America
  2022 - Recommended, Latin America: International Firms Capital Markets
  2019-21 - Leading Lawyer, Argentina Banking and Finance
  2019-21 - Recommended, Latin America: International Firms Capital Markets
  2019-21 - Recommended, Latin America: International Firms Corporate and M&A
  2018 - Recommended, Argentina Banking and Finance
• Latin Lawyer 250
  2023 - Key Partner, Capital Markets
  2023 - International Counsel, Banking and Finance

Marcelo serves as a Trustee, Treasurer and Member of the Executive Committee of the Eisenhower Fellowships in Philadelphia. The Eisenhower Fellowships is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to identifying outstanding ascendant leaders who share President Eisenhower's belief in the powerful possibilities of a more peaceful, prosperous and just world and to help them produce impactful change (www.efworld.org). He also served as Board Member at the Rainforest Foundation in New York, Treasurer of Americanos del Sur en el Siglo XXI in Buenos Aires, Senior Advisor to the Advanced Leadership Foundation in Washington DC, Member of the Pro-Bono Committee at the Colegio de Abogados de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, and Vice Chairman of the Harvard International Law Society.