Member Profiles

Juan Javier Negri is a founding member of the firm (1990). He specializes in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate law. As an avid art collector, he now devotes part of his time to art law. In addition to several other teaching positions, Javier was Adjunct Professor of Commercial Law and Professor of Banking Law at the Argentine Catholic University between 1977 and 1992. He is Professor of Corporate Conflicts at the Graduate Level at Austral University (of which he is founding faculty member) since 1993. He lectured on Latin American Law at the University of Illinois in 1979. He is a Member of the Board of Advisors, Universidad Torcuato di Tella Law School. He has been guest speaker on Corporate Governance and Capital Markets in conferences around the world (Cartagena, Colombia; Sao Paulo, Brasil; Nyanga, Zimbabwe; Lusaka, Zambia; Nairobi, Kenya; Siem Reap, Cambodia; San José, Costa Rica; Nadi, Fiji, etc.). He was a speaker on Art Law at the MAXXI Museum in Rome (2014) and during the ARCO Madrid Art Fair in 2017. A book on banking activities in Argentina he co-authored won the 1990 Argentine Bankers’ Association Award. In 1990 he also won the Argentine Press Association Award for his news articles on the rule of law. His essay on art law (Banksy’s Door) won the 2016 Art Law Award granted by the Rodrigo Uría Foundation (Madrid, Spain). In addition to his books and essays, Javier has published more than 700 articles about current developments of the law in Argentina and abroad. He is an editorial referee of Banks and Bank Systems Journal published in Ukraine and a frequent editorial contributor th the newspaper La Nación in Buenos Aires. Javier is also an honorary member of the Argentine Institute on Corporate Governance and an Academician at the International Academy for Quality. He was member of the board of the Buenos Aires Bar Association between 1990 and 1994 and Chairman of the Board or board members of several Argentine corporations.

Julio Pueyredón is a partner of Negri & Pueyrredon and part of its Department of General Practice. He has a long experience on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements, financial law, capital markets, reorganizations and debt restructuring, white collar crime, money laundering and corporate fraud and technology law. Julio graduated from the Argentine Catholic University in 1987. He also completed the Lawyers’ Training Course organized by FORES and earned the Moltedo Award to the best graduate. He is professor of Corporate Law at the Argentine Catholic University and at the post graduate course on “Modern corporate agreements” at the Palermo University. During fourteen years he taught Criminal Law at the Argentine Catholic University. Julio has been a speaker in more than fifty conferences in Argentina and abroad, and has published more than seventy law articles on matters related to his practice. He is an international member of the National Association of Defense Lawyers (United States), of the Commercial Committee of the Argentine-Spanish Chamber of Commerce and of the Buenos Aires Bar Association’s House of Delegates, where he chairs the committees on budgetary matters and legislative affairs, He took part in the drafting of several projects on digitalization of legal documents and of the proposed statute against money laundering. He also reviewed the habeas data draft statute and its implementing regulations and the proposed text of the new Civil and Commercial Code. He recently submitted to the Argentine Senate a proposal concerning corporate and commercial law issues.

Juan is the Legal Practice Director of the firm, and also the partner in charge of the Litigation and Energy & Natural Resources departments. His expertise focuses on the areas of foreign investment, international business transactions, energy and natural resources and dispute resolution. He has represented parties in arbitrations conducted under the rules of the ICSID and he has assisted several companies in important and complex commercial litigations. He has published several articles on natural resources, BITs, bankruptcy, conflicts of laws and foreign investment. He has directed and co-authored a book on indigenous rights in South America from the perspective of the natural resources industry, published by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. He graduated cum laude at the University of Buenos Aires, School of Law, and holds a Master in Corporate Law from the New York University School of Law. He has been assistant professor to “Civil and Commercial Contracts” course, University of Buenos Aires. He is Professor of Legal Aspects of the Mining Specialization Career at University of Buenos Aires. Juan is admitted to the Buenos Aires and New York Bars, and is an active member of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, New York State Bar Association and the International Bar Association. EDUCATION Universidad de Buenos Aires, School of Law, cum laude Master in Corporate Law, New York University School of Law Assistant Professor at “Civil and Commercial Contracts”, Universidad de Buenos Aires MEMBERSHIPS Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires New York State Bar International Bar Association Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation INDUSTRIES Mining Industry Construction and Infrastructure Projects Oil & Gas PRACTICE AREA Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation & Dispute Resolution Energy and Natural Resources AWARDS Chambers Latin America Chambers Global Who’s Who Legal – Dispute Resolution Legal 500

Education: Taron Simonyan graduated from Yerevan State University (Department of Law) with Honorary Distinction in 2007, has a Master’s degree on European Law from YSU (2009). In 2009 he graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (International Legal Studies), Tufts University (Boston, USA), and in 2012 he did his PhD on Theory and History of State and Law at YSU.   Professional trainings, memberships and publications: Taron was elected as a member of the Parliament at the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from Lori region - 2019-2021, was a member at the Commission of the Legal and State Affairs, the Co-Chairman at the Committee on Economic Integration, Legal Approximation and Convergence with EU Policies (ECON) at the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. He was appointed as the National Correspondent of the Republic of Armenia in the UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (UNCITRAL) ֊ 2017֊2021, was elected as a member of the Council of the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia 2017-2021, is a co-founder, a member of the Council of the Asociation of Arbitrators of the Republic of Armenia since 2017, a co-founder, a member of the Council of the Mediators of Armenia Self-governing organization since 2016, is an Arbitrator at the European Arbitration Chamber since 2014 (Brussels, Belgium); the Executive Director of the Bar Association of the Republic of Armenia (since 2012); the Director and founding member of International and Comparative Law Center (since 2010); member of Chamber of Advocates of RA (since 2010); the Big Council of the Department of Law (since 2005); and the Council of YSU (2007-2011) and is an author of several scientific articles on international, comparative law and theory of state and law, as well as monographs. He is a lecturer and associate professor (Docent) at the Faculty of Law; Center on European Studies (Yerevan State University); a lecturer at the French University in Armenia and at the International Accountancy Training Center.   Taron has participated in several professional trainings in Russia, Greece, Belgium, USA and France.   Practice Areas: Taron has provided all-inclusive legal services to IT, media, mining corporations, local casinos etc. He has acted as a program expert for IBF International Consulting, Council of Europe project “Support for Access to Justice in Armenia”, assisting the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia in drafting of the new Code for Civil Procedure. Taron has also acted as an expert for OSCE, Protection of Human Rights without Borders, Armenian UN NGO, the Asian Development Bank, EuropeAid etc.   Negotiation and Mitigation, International Law, EU Law, Human Rights, Investment Law, Arbitration, Litigation, Constitutional Law, Civil Law and Procedure, Administrative Law and Procedure, Competition Law, Corporate Law, Labor Law, Mining Legislation, Intellectual Property Law, Legal Due Diligence.   Languages: Armenian, English, Russian

Gor Margaryan has a vast experience of more than 15 years in serving multinationals involved in private equity, investment and asset management, banking and finance, IT and life sciences. He is specialized in finance and commercial law, taxation with strong emphasis on M&As, venture capital and private equity financing, plain vanilla, subordinated and syndicated lending transactions as well as regulatory advice in banking and investment, taxation and international taxation.