Nicolás Zaballa

Firm Profile

Estudio Rovira is a boutique law firm that stands out for its personalized attention and high level of specialization, offering high-quality legal services, mostly in the field of economic and business law.

Experience

Dr. Alfredo L. Rovira, founder of Estudio Rovira, and his partners provide a wide-ranging academic and professional experience, which merge to offer a high-quality legal service with a creative and innovative approach.

Dr. Alfredo L. Rovira’s more than 40 years’ experience as a lawyer is complemented by an extensive academic activity, being recognized as one of the leading specialists in Argentina in his field.

His partners, Liuba Lencova Besheva and Nicolás Zaballa, have solid academic backgrounds and consolidated experience, having practiced as lawyers and served in senior government positions at national and provincial level.

Services

Estudio Rovira offers high-quality legal service, mostly in the field of economic and business law, focusing on corporate affairs, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture transactions, negotiation and drafting of contracts, insolvency and restructuring, complex litigation and international and domestic commercial arbitration. In addition, we offer legal and corporate consultancy to others law firms and internal legal departments of companies and family businesses.

Estudio Rovira’s professionals are qualified to work in Spanish, English, Russian and Bulgarian, and also has basic knowledge to work in Italian, French and Portuguese. Furthermore, Estudio Rovira has an extensive network of professionals from three continents and is a member of IR Global, a multi-disciplinary professional services network that provides legal, accountancy, financial advice to companies and individuals around the world. 

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Mr. Nicolás Zaballa received his law degree with honors at the University of Buenos Aires, specialized in international law.

Mr. Zaballa obtained an LL.M. in Economic Regulation from the Austral University with the thesis: “La expropiación pública y la protección de inversiones extranjeras” (Public expropriation and protection of foreign investments).

Mr. Zaballa has a Postgraduate Diploma in Arbitration from the Austral University and attended other postgraduate courses on EU Law (University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain), International Trade and Negotiation (ICBC Foundation, Argentina), Agribusiness Law and Regulation (Austral University, Argentina) and Compliance & Anti-bribery management systems (IRAM, Argentina).

He has extensive experience in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, negotiation and drafting of contracts, project development and finance, complex litigation and international and domestic commercial arbitration.

He took part in several arbitrations under the ICC Rules and the UNCITRAL Rules, before both the General Arbitration Tribunal of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange as well as the General Arbitration and Mediation Tribunal of the Colegio de Escribanos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires and other ad-hoc arbitrations.

He has also served as Legal Advisor to the Secretary and Under Secretary of Commerce in Argentina and as Under Secretary of Entrepreneurs, Small and Medium-Size Enterprises and Cooperatives in the Ministry of Production of the Province of Buenos Aires.

Mr. Zaballa is a current member of the Institute of International Law and coordinator of the Working Group of Commercial and Economic Integration of the Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI).

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