Banking and Financing

Nicholson y Cano has represented national and international financial entities including commercial and investment banks, finance companies, money exchange houses, international credit organizations, mutual funds, local association of banking Chambers (ADEBA) and the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic.

In the banking industry, we provide legal support for our bank clients covering the full range of their operations, providing legal services to international banks, such as . UBS, HSBC Bank, ABN AMRO Bank, Standard Bank, Citibank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi LTD, as well as local banks, such as Banco Comafi S.A., Banco Macro S.A, Banco Patagonia Sudameris S.A., Banco Credicoop and Banco de Valores S.A. In the investment banking business we have represented our clients in capital markets transactions. In equity offerings, we advised investment banks in many of the biggest deals of the capital market boom of the 90´s.

We played a leading role in the $988 million YPF S.A. shares accelerated secondary offering (block trade) led by Salomon Brothers Inc., the biggest equity securities offer since the privatization of YPF in Argentina in 1993. In 2000, we represented a consortium of banks led by JP-Morgan, in the $267 million secondary shares offering of Telecom Argentina Stet-France Telecom S.A. More recently, we represented Citigroup and ABN Amro in one of the biggest bond restructurings, the U$S900 million exchange tender offer of Banco Hipotecario S.A.