Daniel Levi
Latin America Guide 2025
Up and Coming : Banking & Finance
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About
Provided by Daniel Levi
Practice Areas
Daniel Levi is a partner at Beccar Varela, having joined the firm in 2004. He co-leads the firm's Banking & Finance and Fintech departments.
His practice areas include corporate law, with a particular focus on corporate finance, banking law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and commercial contracts.
Daniel has extensive experience advising on local and cross-border financial transactions, including loan facilities, syndicated loans, securitizations, project financings, and distressed acquisitions, acting either on the financial institutions’ or on the borrowers’ side.
He assists foreign and local fintech initiatives in all the verticals of business, with special expertise in regulatory aspects. His comprehensive approach allows him to advise in all the stages of business, from structuring, landing, and capital raising, as well as in daily corporate and regulatory advice. He is strongly committed to projects that generate a positive impact.
Career
Daniel obtained his Law degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2006) and a Masters in Finance from the Universidad del CEMA (2011, with distinction). He also has post-graduate studies in Negotiation at Harvard Law School (USA, 2014), in Valuation of Financial Institutions at APIMEC and in Private Equity & Venture Capital at INSPER Institute (Brazil, 2016), in Innovative Banking & Fintech at Imperial College Business School (UK, 2018) and in Digital Banking at Universidad Di Tella (2018).
Daniel worked as a foreign associate at Pinheiro Neto Advogados (São Paulo, Brazil, 2015-2016) in their M&A and Banking & Fintech departments. This experience allowed him, as a co-founder and a co-leader of our Brazil Desk, to be a facilitator for Brazilian investors and Brazilian-based projects coming to Argentina, and for local entrepreneurs interested in doing business in the neighbor country.
Between 2009 and 2015, Daniel was a professor in Contracts and Negotiation at the Universidad de Palermo (Argentina).
Professional Memberships
He is a member of the Buenos Aires Bar Association and of the International Bar Association. He also actively participates in the Argentine-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CAMBRAS).
Chambers Review
Latin America
Up-and-coming partner Daniel Levi continues to receive significant praise for his expertise in the Argentine banking and finance field. He is experienced providing regulatory support to clients.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Daniel Levi is assertive in his analysis and demonstrates a lot of knowledge about the subject. His approach to providing insights demonstrates his proactivity towards solving issues."
"Daniel Levi is assertive in his analysis and demonstrates a lot of knowledge about the subject. His approach to providing insights demonstrates his proactivity towards solving issues."
Articles, highlights and press releases
4 items provided by Beccar Varela
Banco Macro S.A. entered into a purchase agreement to acquire Banco Itaú Argentina
Banco Macro S.A. entered into a stock purchase agreement with Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. to acquire from Itaú the shares representing 100% of the capital stock and votes of Banco Itaú Argentina S.A., Itaú Asset Management S.A. and Itaú Valores S.A.
Beccar Varela advises on the issuance of the first social bond of NGO Sumatoria
On December 27th, 2021, Beccar Varela advised NGO Sumatoria on the issuance of its first notes’ issuance in the local capital market (Class I notes), carried out under a specific SME regime, offered in two series, for a total nominal amount of AR$30 million.
Beccar Varela won the Grunin Prize Law and Social Entrepreneurship 2021
On June 9th, 2021, the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship of the NYU awarded Beccar Varela with the Grunin Prize Law and Social Entrepreneurship 2021 for having designed the structure of a Trust for the Argentine Network of Municipalities against Climate Change.
Banco Macro S.A. entered into a purchase agreement to acquire Banco Itaú Argentina
Banco Macro S.A. entered into a stock purchase agreement with Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. to acquire from Itaú the shares representing 100% of the capital stock and votes of Banco Itaú Argentina S.A., Itaú Asset Management S.A. and Itaú Valores S.A.
Beccar Varela advises on the issuance of the first social bond of NGO Sumatoria
On December 27th, 2021, Beccar Varela advised NGO Sumatoria on the issuance of its first notes’ issuance in the local capital market (Class I notes), carried out under a specific SME regime, offered in two series, for a total nominal amount of AR$30 million.
Beccar Varela won the Grunin Prize Law and Social Entrepreneurship 2021
On June 9th, 2021, the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship of the NYU awarded Beccar Varela with the Grunin Prize Law and Social Entrepreneurship 2021 for having designed the structure of a Trust for the Argentine Network of Municipalities against Climate Change.