Founder Members
Dr. SERGIO ABREU
Doctor in Law and Social Sciences, School of Law and Social Sciences of the University of the Republic of Uruguay, Master in Public Administration, University of Southern California. He studied in Southwestern Legal Foundation, University of Texas, Dallas; the Center for International and Comparative Law (1980) and the Hague Academy of International Law (1983).
He is an international consultant, Professor at the Master of International Affairs Program (School of Law of the University of the Republic and the University of Montevideo). President of the Uruguayan Council of International Affairs (CURI). Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Senator (1993-1995), Minister of Energy and Mining (2000-2002) and National Senator (1990-1995, 2005-2010, 2010-2015).
He is member of several national and international institutions: American Associations, Inter-American Federation of Attorneys, Uruguayan Council of International Affairs (CURI), International Council of Trade and Manufacturing (CICYP), Argentine Council of International Affairs (CARI) and the National Academy of Economics.
He has published the following books: Mercosur e Integración (1991), Uruguay y el Nuevo Orden Mundial (1992), MERCOSUR: Una Década de Integración (2000), El Hilo Conductor (2007) y LA VIEJA TRENZA: la alianza porteño-lusitana en la Cuenca del Plata 1800 a 1875 (2013).
Languages: Spanish
Dr. GUSTAVO FERRES
Doctor in Law and Social Sciences, School of Law and Social Sciences of the University of the Republic of Uruguay (1975). International Marketing Institute, Harvard University (1972), Major in Foreign Trade.
Since 1975 he has worked as Advisor and Political Leader in different Organizations of the Public Administration, focusing on Administrative Law and Foreign Trade. He practiced law from 1995 to 2015, specialized in Business Law and Foreign Trade. He was Technical Advisor of the National Administration of Foreign Trade (1974-1976); Technical Advisor of the Ministry of Economics and Finance (1977-1989); Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery (1990-1991); Advisor to the MERCOSUR Sectorial Commission (1992-1996); President of the Technical Commission of the Maritime Front (1994-1996); Executive Director of FONPLATA (1994-1996), Advisor to the Board of Directors of ANTEL (1994-1997); elected Senator, substitute member of Congress 1990-1994; Member of the Commission of International Affairs of the Chamber of Senators; Representative and Advisor of the Uruguayan delegations for multiple commercial negotiations: Protocol of Commercial Expansion (Brazil); Uruguayan-Argentine Agreement on Economic Cooperation; GATT- Uruguay Round; Cairns Group; MERCOSUR; World Trade Organization.
He is member of the Uruguayan Bar Association; National Institute of Tax Studies and he is a former advisor to the Uruguayan-US Cultural Alliance (1987-1996).
Author of several publications on legal and historical issues. He is a consultant professor on legal issues related to his specialty areas.
Languages: Spanish, English
Current members of the Firm
Dr. SERGIO J. ABREU
Doctor in Law and Social Sciences, School of Law and Social Sciences of the University of the Republic of Uruguay (2006).
In 2007, he studied International and Comparative Law at the Center for American and International Law, in Dallas, Texas.
In 2012, he pursued a Management Program for Lawyers in the University of Yale, Connecticut, United States of America.
Languages: Spanish, English, French
Dr. CLAUDIO CAÑETTE
He studied at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Católica del Uruguay "Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga" (UCUDAL), having obtained the title of Doctor of Law in 1997.
As an aspiring professor, he was a member of the Chair of Law of Obligations and Contracts at the same Faculty between 1998 and 2002. At the same time, he specialized in Human Rights and participated on behalf of the UCUDAL in the II International Human Rights Contest at the American University in the city of Washington DC (1997).
He collaborates in the edition of a specialized text in Civil Law, the “Penal Clause and other compulsive means of compliance” authored by Prof. Dr. Gustavo Ordoqui.
He has developed an important practice in the area of Business Law, forming part of directories of companies and commercial companies in our country and assisting national and international companies in matters of Commercial and Labor Law.
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese
Dra. MARÍA JOSÉ POEY
Lawyer specialized in labor law, with experience advising on individual and
collective law issues, mainly to companies for almost 18 years.
Doctor in Law and Social Sciences graduated from the Faculty of Law of the
University of the Republic (2006).
Master in Law with specialization in Labor Law (ISDE- Barcelona, Spain)
(2014).
Specialization Course for Latin American Experts in Labor Relations. 2019
Edition. “100 years since the founding of the ILO”. University of Castilla La
Mancha. Toledo – Spain.
She has teaching experience in labor law. Author of various articles on
labor issues and official and volunteer speaker at national and regional
conferences.
Member of the Uruguayan Association of Labor Law and Social Security
(AUDTSS).
Author of publications in the specialty.
Esc. JORGE SASSON
Notary Public graduated from the Universidad de la Empresa in 2009.
He is a member of the Uruguayan Notaries Association.
Languages: Spanish, English
Lic. MARIANA BENECH
Degree in Business Administration, graduated from the Universidad Católica del Uruguay.
Mariana has professionally assisted countless clients to Relocate to our country and obtain Legal, Fiscal, Citizenship Residency.
She has more than twenty-five years of experience in international business and assistance to foreign clients, natural and legal persons, who move and move to Uruguay for professional, investment, agribusiness, retirement, retirement, family reunification and personal reasons.
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese
Cra. VALENTINA DÍAZ
Graduate in Administration – Accountant graduated from the University of the Republic – Faculty of Economic Sciences and Administration in 1997.
Grade 3 Professor of Corporate Finance at the University of the Republic.
It carries out its activity advising local and international companies in
making financial, economic and corporate decisions.
Languages: Spanish, French, English.
Dr. MATÍAS CIKATO - Consultor en áreas de su especialidad.
Doctor in Law graduated from the University of Montevideo in 2003.
LLM in Intellectual Property, The George Washington University, Washington
DC, United States, in 2008.
Expert in protection, processing and litigation in the trademark area, as
well as in intellectual property contracts.
In 2012 he served as an attorney for the Litigation Department of Philiph
Morris International, working on very complex product liability, regulatory
litigation and arbitration cases.
Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese and French.
Mag. Dr. Ángel Pinto Langoni - Consultor en áreas de su especialidad.
Grade 1 professor
in the Chair of Constitutional Law belonging to the University of the Republic
(UdelaR). He is an associate member of the Institute of Constitutional Law.
He has a Master of Laws (LL.M) graduated from
the University of Montevideo.
He completed a
diploma in Criminal Procedure Law and Oral Litigation at the Universidad de la
Empresa.
He is the author of the book Studies on the
Professional Responsibility of the Notary.
Languages:
English and Spanish.
