Boutique Law Firm: Same or better quality of service as a big firm, at lower cost.

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Founded in 1940, Kier Joffe is a third generation boutique law firm. Our clients include individuals, small to medium-sized businesses and start-ups, and small to medium-sized law, audit and accounting firms. Most of our clients are from United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Italy, Spain and Israel. Kier Joffe is headquartered in Buenos Aires, and represents clients' interests throughout the country.

We were the first law firm in Argentina to specialize in service to international clients who need legal or business services in Argentina. We limit our practice to what we do best.

Accessibility and prompt responses are important both for productivity and to develop a personal relationship with our clients. Regardless of where you are located, we are reachable. We are convinced that easy access through informal communication channels including various online and mobile apps helps improve outcomes.

Unlike with a traditional big law firm, typically you will deal directly with Managing Partner Elias Kier Joffe, grandson of the founder, not with an associate or assistant. And because you are not paying to train a stable of associates and maintain the overhead of a large firm, we can provide the same or better quality of service as a big firm, at lower cost.

We understand how daunting it can be to choose a law firm from another country. Please feel free to contact me personally with any questions, or to discuss retaining our services.
We offer a free initial consultation on your legal matter, with full protection of attorney-client confidentiality.

Year this Office was Established: 1940

Languages: Spanish, English, Italian & Hebrew

Areas of Law

Areas of Law Description

The Kier Joffe Law Firm serves clients in the following practice areas:

- Commercial and Business Contracts

We have a large client portfolio of individuals and associations whose shareholders, management, and directors require our permanent legal advice on all types of contracts and business affairs. These include: civil and commercial agreements involving Joint Ventures, Leasing, Franchising, Trusts, Factoring, Call and Put Options, Guarantees, Pledges, Mortgages, Technical Assistance and Technology Transfers, Building and Engineering, Distribution, Agency and Concession Agreements and Contracts, among others.

- Corporate Law

The Corporate Law Department offers advice to clients to assist them in designing the most effective legal structure to enable them to carry out their activities. In addition, it offers advice on all aspects of corporate life, as well as the registration of all the proceedings necessary for the functioning of the companies.

- Debt Collection

Kier Joffe - Attorneys at Law offer a set of services that can be called upon individually or together depending on the need. Our strong principle is to avoid going to court, and to recover debt through negotiation.

- Foreign Investments

Our law firm has a great deal of experience in formulating structures to make foreign investments in Argentina workable. Many of these have been extended to other areas in Latin America. Through the years, our clients have required the evolution and analysis of a number of rules that govern investment structures.

- Foundations

Kier Joffe permanently advises clients on the creation and organization of non-profit foundations and associations, with public or private interests, as well as the management of their activity and the laws that govern them in Argentina. Lawyers with vast experience in foundations provide advice to clients interested in addressing this subject matter.

- General Corporate Advice

Except for the lawyers with exclusive dedication to a particular area, practically all the other professionals in the firm give legal advice to our clients on their daily operations, advising strategies, or interact as the case may be with other in-house legal departments.

- Intellectual Property

Our Patents and Trademarks Office takes care of all matters relating to this area including the registration and renewal of trademarks, registration of patents, and copyright lawsuits related to this field and connected matters. Our Intellectual Property area has assisted international clients of great significance during many years in this field, and gives advice to our clients on this specific aspect of the law.

- Labor and Security Law

The establishment of foreign companies in the country during recent decades has enhanced our long lasting experience in the Argentine market. These firms, which have taken advantage of the expert legal advice of Kier Joffe have enabled our Labor Department to assist clients in both the field of labor policies and in the development of strategies, as well as alternative proposals, preventive solutions to conflicts, and bargaining in general.

- Litigation, Insolvency & Bankruptcy

We have long and extensive experience in the defense of clients’ interests in both civil and commercial courts, representing clients as either plaintiff or defendant, as well as participating in pre-trial mediation, composition with creditors and bankruptcy proceedings.

- Media & Entertainment

For many years now Kier Joffe has been giving professional assistance in these fields, advising TV producers, film producers in general, video industry agents, publishing companies and advertising agencies, etc.

- Mergers & Acquisitions

We actively participate in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions. Kier Joffe’s expertise in this area is in offering advice to both sellers and purchasers of industrial, commercial, and service enterprises. We have vast experience concerning these matters and have participated in a countless number of such transactions.

- Non Profit Organizations (NGOs)

Kier Joffe collaborates in certain causes of action by advising non-profit institutions and non-governmental organizations with a public welfare purpose. Such institutions are carefully evaluated and selected by our partners.

- Notarial Services

A Civil Law Notary is not to be confused with a Notary Public known in most states of the USA and Canada (the countries of origin of many of our clients). Although both positions are often referred to as "notary", there is a distinct difference between the two. In Civil Law Countries such as Argentina with the term notary always is meant a Civil Law Notary.

- Real Estate Business & Development

Our Law Firm provides consummate representation in landlord and tenant litigation, real estate brokerage commission litigation, real estate litigation and transactions, business law and commercial litigation, consumer law and bankruptcy to tenants, businesses, homeowners, commercial landlords, real estate management companies, and residential landlords in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

- Strategy & Negotiation

The hands-on approach of our partners makes our firm strongly oriented toward looking after the interests of our clients, analyzing alternatives that provide solutions, and where possible, helping to avoid controversy. Kier Joffe offers a broad range of services in relation to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms in order to find alternative out-of-court solutions to any conflict.

- Successions & Inheritance

Our law firm has extensive experience in this specific type of successions, especially with foreigners and heirs living abroad who can eventually fall in the classification of non residents, Mercosur or Non Mercosur immigrants.

- Tax and Custom Law

The Tax and Customs Law department is comprised of lawyers specializing in this field. The service is rendered both at an advisory stage and throughout litigation in all its instances. The expertise of the department includes all aspects of this dynamic branch of law, from constitutional issues to the most current topics in national, provincial, and municipal taxation.

- Venture Capital & Private Equity

We provide advisory services to companies that need to make venture capital investments as well as disinvestment transactions. We have designed sophisticated tax structures, asset transfers, and organization arrangements, as well as created financial, testamentary, real estate, guaranty, management and other trusts.

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Lawyers

Mr. Elias Kier Joffe Managing Partner Business and Industry, Employment, Estate Planning, Family Law, Government

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