Biography: Mergers and Acquisitions

Matías Grinberg graduated in law (1995) from Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), School of Law, Buenos Aires, and achieved a LLM in banking, corporate and finance law (1998) from Fordham University, School of Law, New York.

Mr Grinberg has been very active in the area of M&A. His recent representations in this area include Repsol YPF, as only selling shareholder, in the US$1,070 million secondary public offering to sell 26.21 million ADSs of YPF, in the international capital markets (2011), and in the US$85.3 million offering to sell in block 1.9 million shares of its Argentine subsidiary YPF, in the Buenos Aires Stock Market (2011); Banco Patagonia, an Argentine commercial bank, and its controlling shareholders in the US$480 million sale of 51 per cent of Banco Patagonia to Banco do Brasil, a Brazilian sovereign universal bank (2010); Banco Patagonia in the US$23 million purchase of GMAC Compañía Financiera (2009), in the acquisition of the business in Argentina of Lloyds TSB Bank (2004), and in the acquisition of Banco Sudameris Argentina (2003); and SICPA SA, of Switzerland, as seller, in the purchase by Siegwerk Druckfarben AG, of Germany, of the worldwide division of packaging ink, with relation to the carve out of the portion of such division located in Argentina and its transfer to the buyer (2005).

Mr Grinberg is a professor of M&A on the LLM in enterprise law at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE), School of Law, Buenos Aires. He is the author of several articles on M&A, and was recognised in the 'Argentina: Forty under 40' ranking in LatinLawyer (2003), featuring the 40 most-recognised Argentine lawyers under 40.