Santiago Carregal

Santiago Carregal has been a partner with Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal since he joined the firm in 1997. He specializes in commercial, banking and capital markets law.

He has broad experience in banking and finance, capital markets, project financing, securitization, real state development and finance and debt restructuring, advising major companies, international and local banks and multilateral credit agencies.

Previously he was a partner of the law firm Carregal & Funes de Rioja; he was Vice-President and Assistant General Counsel of JP Morgan, Buenos Aires branch, between 1993 and 1995 and during 1992 and 1993 he worked as a foreign attorney for Shearman and Sterling, in New York.

He graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1984 with a degree in law, and obtained an LLM at the University of Illinois, U.S.A., in 1987.

He has spoken at many conferences and seminars on banking, corporate and financial matters. Between 1989 and 1991 he was an assistant professor of Commercial Law I at the Universidad Católica Argentina. At present he teaches "Contracts and modern financial transactions" in the Banking Law post graduate course at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

He is a member of the Colegio de Abogados de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires and a member of the Board of the Argentine Bank's Lawyers Committee (Comité de Abogados de la República Argentina).