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For the second year in a row, Luciano Gutman led the "Tudu Legal" Workshop organized by the Entrepreneurs Club of the Israelite Mutual Association of Argentina (AMIA), aimed at entrepreneurs with businesses started at least two years ago.
On Friday October 14th, 2022, it took place the Law Competition organized by the Law School of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, in which our partner Celia Lerman acted as judge in the final rounds.
On September 28th, 2022, our partners Gabriela Szlak and Celia Lerman presented in an online event the Report published by ADC together with the Digital Trade Alliance: "Mercosur E-Commerce Agreement: Challenges and Opportunities". The report, which was also supported by Public Citizen, analyses the Agreement signed on April 29th, 2021, by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, the four MERCOSUR member countries. 
Law No. 27.685 was published today on the Official Gazette. Its main objective is to promote the development and production of modern biotechnology and nanotechnology throughout the national territory.
As of August 3rd, companies providing goods or services in Argentina that are not registered as small or medium sized businesses shall comply with the new customer service and collection management directives set forth by the Secretary of Commerce. These directives also apply if contractors provide the aforementioned services. Lerman & Szlak has prepared a brief guide for the compliance of the new standards.
Marketing and advertising agencies and other content creators need to be cautious about the images, videos and audios they use when generating marketing materials. Infringement of a person's image rights or privacy can mean significant losses for the business, probably far outweighing any kind of profit or benefit achieved by the marketing campaign.
A court located in the Province of Tucumán ordered a preventive seizure of the current and future funds held by the debtor of an IOU in a well-known cryptocurrency exchange platform operating outside of Argentina, for a total amount of USD 6,500. Given the high volatility of these goods, and the impossibility of depositing them in Argentinean bank accounts, it remains to be seen how this warrant will be implemented.
"Law is always behind the pace of reality". This is a phrase that as attorneys we cannot forget whenever advising our tech clients. However, there are few cases in which this phrase is more suitable than when we talk about electronic signatures.
April brought several changes in the way in which the different public agencies in Argentina assimilate the expansion and massification of crypto economy and blockchain technology, which have spread to different fields of daily life and branches of the market. 
This April marks the fifth anniversary of the enactment of the Entrepreneurial Capital Support Law, and the consequent incorporation of the Simplified Corporations (or “SAS”, after its acronym in Spanish) into the Argentine legislation.