Sebastián Martinenco

He is head of the Strategic Legal Department, which designs and strengthens prudential and transparent corporate policies according to international standards, with the objective of tackling the perverse effects of criminal financial practices in the life of organizations.

He specializes in technical defense in summaries before Financial Information Unit (UIF), the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) and the Federal Public Income Administration (AFIP), as well as in the preparation of direct resources at the Federal Administrative Litigation Chamber and extraordinary remedies at the National Supreme Court of Justice for administrative fines and penalties.

He is also an expert in the analysis of suspicious activities, which could be reported to FIU, in the design and implementation of client due diligence practices, in the training and awareness of all AML/CTF devices and in the making and updating Procedure Manuals, amongst others.

In the private sector, he has been part of the Tax Law Department of some of the most recognized firms in the country, such as Baker & McKenzie, Ernst & Young – Pistrelli, Henry Martín y Asociados SRL, and JP O’Farrell, among others, providing advice tax and attention in contentious cases in administrative and judicial headquarters.

He has been Chief of the Office of the Rapporteur in the Federal Administrative Litigation Chamber.

He is a lawyer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, with orientation in financial and tax law and as a Master in Tax Law at the Torcuato Di Tella University. He has obtained the diploma of the postgraduate course on “The Global Combat of Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism”, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

In 2015 he became academic coordinator at the postgraduate course “The Global Combat of Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism”, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

He dominates Spanish (mother tongue) and English.