Our Team
Dr. Zamira Ayul
Zamira has developed her professional practice in the field of Commercial Law, specializing as a lawyer focused on corporate law and corporate restructuring.
She regularly advises national and foreign commercial, financial services and insurance companies and actively participates in the structuring of projects of various kinds, such as legal structures for free trade zone developments, legal structures for publicly and privately offered financial trusts, as well as administration and real estate trusts.
She also takes part in international mediations and arbitrations, as well as in mergers and reorganizations of multinational companies. Doctoral candidate in Legal Sciences, University of Siena. Master's in Business Law, University of Montevideo (2002). Doctor of Law and Social Sciences, University of the Republic (1996). Member of the Registry of Judicial Trustees and Receivers of Uruguay. Associate Professor of Commercial Law (Grade 3), University of the Republic (2015).
ADMITTED IN ARGENTINA / URUGUAY
E-mail: zayul@nc.com.uy
Mobile: (598) 94 232 815
Dr. Federico Rocca
Federico has developed his professional practice in the field of Banking and Financial Law, specializing as a lawyer focused on banking law and capital markets. He regularly advises local and foreign financial institutions and actively participates in the structuring of projects of various kinds, such as project finance, investment structures for real estate developments, and public offerings of securities.
ADMITTED IN URUGUAY
E-mail: frocca@nc.com.uy
Mobile: (598) 99 586 660
Dr. Emiliano Silva
Emiliano has extensive experience in banking law and capital markets, particularly in banking and foreign exchange regulations and the issuance of negotiable securities. He advises financial institutions, authorized agents and commercial companies on banking regulation, capital markets rules, personal data protection and anti-money laundering. He actively participates in capital markets issuances of financial trusts and debt securities. He has taken part in financing transactions for provinces and municipalities and in the financing of infrastructure investment projects; in syndicated loans; in foreign trade financing and in share purchase transactions. He advises financial institutions, trustees, mutual fund managers, authorized agents and companies on the drafting of anti-money laundering manuals and compliance programs.
E-mail: esilva@nc.com.uy
Dr. Hernán López Mazzeo
Hernán served as Director and General Counsel of Antarctica Asset Management Ltd. (an investment fund management company), with offices in London, New York, Tortola (British Virgin Islands), Hong Kong and Geneva. He also served as Director of Antarctica Private (BVI) Ltd., a venture capital and private equity fund management company.
His professional experience in investment funds ranges from the initial structuring and launch of investment platforms to the day-to-day legal oversight of their operations. In that capacity, Hernán has led legal teams responsible for private placements in various jurisdictions, mainly in Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia, and has been in charge of compliance teams in those regulated markets.
Locally, his professional practice focuses on public offerings of negotiable securities, financial reorganizations, cross-border corporate acquisitions in the LATAM region, and general corporate law.
E-mail: hlopezmazzeo@nc.com.uy
Dr. Carlos Marcelo Villegas
Marcelo has vast experience in corporate finance, banking law, capital markets and corporate law. He advises companies with a comprehensive view of all the legal matters involved in their activities, paying special attention to financing in general, corporate financing and contractual financing. He has participated in numerous financial transactions, both local and international, including capital markets and M&A transactions. He has also been involved in a significant number of corporate reorganizations and debt restructurings, including mergers and IPOs, as well as in several project finance transactions, particularly in the energy sector.
In the area of financing, Marcelo's work has included: secured and unsecured credit facilities; sovereign and sub-sovereign loans; lease financing and structured finance; loan renegotiations and debt restructurings; real estate finance; securitizations and investment funds; syndicated loans; and the issuance of corporate bonds and shares (IPOs). He has advised major clients on the drafting and negotiation of documents related to corporate governance and regulatory compliance. Following the enactment of the new corporate governance rules of 2001, Decree 677/01 (now the Capital Markets Law), he has advised several clients, assisting their boards and senior management in adapting their corporate structures to the new regulation.
He has also gained significant experience in relation to (i) regulatory matters for financial institutions, working for banks and brokers or stock agents on regulatory compliance; (ii) insolvency law, especially in the area of out-of-court restructurings (Acuerdos Preventivos Extrajudiciales); and (iii) the regulation of public companies and public offerings, and the rights and duties of institutional investors as shareholders of public companies.
E-mail: mvillegas@nc.com.uy
Dr. Santiago Mollard
Santiago joined Nicholson y Cano in 2001. He has vast experience in litigation, insolvency law and arbitration, advising companies with a comprehensive view of all the legal matters involved in their activities, with a special focus on litigation and dispute resolution.
He has taken part in a very large number of judicial and arbitration proceedings, having practiced in this area for over thirty years. He is recognized for his experience in the market and his extensive regulatory and procedural knowledge in the field.
He is a member of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires, the Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital and the Bar Association of San Isidro.
E-mail: smollard@nc.com.uy
Dr. Agustín Perez Cambiaso
Agustín joined Nicholson y Cano in 2005, where he founded and currently leads the Real Estate Department. With a professional career that began in 1988, he has developed vast experience at prestigious law firms in Buenos Aires.
Throughout his career, Agustín has specialized in Real Estate and Construction Law, standing out as a leading figure in the sector. He also has solid experience in Corporate Law, particularly in contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and in the field of agribusiness and natural resources.
Professionally, Agustín has advised prominent entities on numerous projects, participating in highly relevant transactions, especially in the real estate and construction sectors. His experience also includes his past role as consultant to AMCHAM's Real Estate and Infrastructure Committee and, currently, to the Argentine Chamber of Urban Developers (CEDU).
He has also carried out significant and varied academic work, both in undergraduate courses in Commercial Law, through his teaching career at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, and in master's programs, seminars and postgraduate courses in the field of Real Estate (among others, at the following institutions: University of Buenos Aires, Torcuato Di Tella University, Austral University, Forum for Studies on the Administration of Justice (FORES), Polytechnic University of Madrid, the Argentine Real Estate Chamber, and the Real Estate Business School of the City of Buenos Aires (ENRE)).
He has been an invited speaker at numerous congresses, seminars, exhibitions and forums in his area of specialization (Real Estate), and is the author and co-author of various articles, papers and books on the subject.
E-mail: aperezcambiaso@nc.com.uy