Marcelo E. Haissiner

Marcelo Haissiner graduated from Universidad de Buenos Aires School of Law as a civil-law notary public and a lawyer in 1977, when he also entered the Development Program for Outstanding Young People of the Standard Electric Argentina Foundation as a scholarship holder.

In 1980 he founded a law firm to practice corporate law, which he then moved to its current location in 2000.

Mr. Haissiner has a long-track record as an adviser for national and international companies on insolvency and crisis prevention and as a litigator in the commercial courts in the City of Buenos Aires, with a focus on preventive insolvency proceedings, out-of-court restructuring of liabilities, and resolution of corporate conflicts.

He has obtained landmark rulings that are frequently cited and still controlling in the Argentine courts. These rulings include, among others, one which ordered the dissolution of a company in a case of so-called de facto banking activity and another that admitted full payment by a third party to withdraw a bankruptcy application. He has also argued several cases before the Argentine Supreme Court, obtaining several rulings of great social and economic impact.

Mr. Haissiner has also obtained some significant international accomplishments, such as the recognition of the Argentine jurisdiction on bankruptcy at the Commercial Court of Paris and the acceptance of the Swiss banking secrecy in local succession cases.

His professional activity is combined with his teaching work that began in 1978 at Universidad de Buenos Aires School of Law, where in 1992 he became a regular assistant professor of commercial law in charge of the Bankruptcy and Securities courses. Currently, he is also a professor in the Insolvency Law postgraduate course and in the Commercial and Business Law master’s course.

He participated in the creation and coordinates the first postgraduate course in sports law at Universidad de Buenos Aires School of Law.

He has been working since 2010 in several academic administrative positions within the same institution. First, as a substitute member of the Law School Leadership Council, where he served for two consecutive terms, and then as Coordination and Institutional Relations Secretary, a position that he currently holds.

His academic contribution also includes multiple articles on commercial law. He has recently written a commentary on securities for an annotated edition of the Argentine Civil and Commercial Code. Mr. Haissiner is also a frequent speaker at professional conferences and meetings, and he was a member of the committee for the revision of Law No. 24522 appointed by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights through Resolution MJDH 1163/2015 of December 2015 to legislate on bankruptcy solutions to crisis stemming from over-indebtment of consumers and small businesses.