Sebastian Martinenco
Senior Associated
Professional with ten years of experience in the field of administrative, tax and criminal tax law, specialized in regulatory compliance and prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism. He is responsible for the Strategic Legal Advice Department. In this task he is in charge of advising and designing prudential corporate policies, following international standards and the regulations in force in Argentina and other countries of the region, thus allowing to avoid the perverse effects of economic and financial crimes in the life of the organizations. He intervenes in the technical defense in summary proceedings before the Financial Information Unit (UIF), the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA), the National Securities Commission (CNV) and the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP), as well as in the preparation of direct appeals before the Federal Contentious Administrative Chamber and extraordinary appeals before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation for fines and administrative sanctions. He advises on the design and implementation of Compliance and Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing programs, best practices of customer due diligence, in the determination of types of transactions that may be reported to the UIF, in the preparation and updating of regulatory compliance elements such as Procedures Manuals, Corporate Code of Conduct, internal regulations and in the training and awareness of all actors in the financial sector and Fintech, capital markets, insurance, gambling, credit cards, among other obligated parties. In the National Public Administration, he has served as legal advisor and Head of the Dispatch Department of the Financial Information Unit (UIF) and as Legal Coordinator at the Ministry of Production of the Nation. In the Judiciary, he has served as Chief of the Office Department of the Federal Contentious-Administrative Chamber. In the private sector, he was part of the Tax Law Department of some of the most renowned law firms in the country, such as Baker & McKenzie, Ernst & Young – Pistrelli, Henry Martín y Asociados SRL, and JP O’Farrell, among others, providing tax advice and assistance in contentious administrative and judicial cases. In the academic field, he serves as Academic Coordinator of the Center for Studies on Hemispheric Security, Terrorism and Financial Crime of the Schools of Law and Psychology of the University of Buenos Aires (CESH/UBA). In addition, since 2015 he is the Academic Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course on Global Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires. He also participates as a lecturer in the subject Public Finance and Tax Law at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires. He is a member of the Argentine Association of Tax Studies (AAEF). He is a member of the Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal (Buenos Aires Bar Association). He obtained his law degree in tax and administrative law from the School of Law of the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a Master’s degree in Tax Law from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
In addition, she completed the Postgraduate Course on Global Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires (2015). She is fluent in Spanish (mother tongue) and English.