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Marcelo A. den Toom

Competition Law

Mergers and Acquisitions

Marcelo den Toom is the partner in charge of the Competition/Antitrust and Foreign Trade departments and he is a member of the Corporate department.

His practice concentrates on the defense of merger transactions, acquisitions and joint ventures before the competition authorities, investigations into anti-competitive and anti-dumping practices, compliance, anticorruption rules, drafting and negotiating corporate acquisition contracts and related documents and advice on corporate and contractual matters.

Between 1998 and 1999, he worked as a foreign associate for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (New York) and Haynes & Boone (Houston). In 2000, he was admitted to the Bar of the state of New York.

As a specialist in competition law, he has frequently been recognized by publications such as Chambers, Legal500, Best Lawyers, Practical Law Company, Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers, International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists and Latin Lawyer.

Education and training

  • Universidad de Belgrano
    Law, 1993

    University of Illinois
    School of Law, Spring Semester 1992

    University of Michigan
    LL.M., 1998

    Universidad Torcuato di Tella
    Specialization in Microeconomics, 2009

Distinctions

Chambers Latin America Guide 2023

Band 1 (Competition/Antitrust)


Chambers Latin America

Band 1 (Competition/Antitrust)

 

Legal 500

Leading lawyer (Competition/Antitrust), 2022

Hall of fame (Competition/Antitrust), 2023

 

Leaders League

Excellent (Competition & Antitrust)

Leader (Competition & Antitrust - Merger control)

 

Who’s Who - Global Elite Guide

Thought Leader Global Elite Competition

Thought Leader – Competition

Global Leader - Competition

 

LACCA

Thought Leader

Approved


Leaders League 

Competition & Antitrust, 2022


Lexology - Client Choice

Competition, 2022

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

Professor of Commercial Companies at Universidad de Buenos Aires.

 

Professor of Competition Law in the Masters in Business Law at Universidad Austral and at Universidad Simón Bolívar.

 

Author of Competition Law in Argentina, Wolters Kluwer (2012-Present).

 

Author of the Chapter on Argentina of Antitrust Issues in International Intellectual Property Licensing Transactions (Section of Antitrust, American Bar Association, 2012/Present), Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control (2000-2015), Getting the Fine Down: Cartels (2001), International Mergers: the Antitrust Process (Sweet & Maxwell, 2001/Present) and Merger Control Worldwide and Anti-Cartel Enforcement (Cambridge University Press, 2004/Present and 2009/Present, respectively).

PERFORMANCE IN PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Co-Chair of the International Antitrust Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association (2014-2015).

 

President and Vice-president of the Competition Commission of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires.

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