gcaffera@ppv.com.uy
+598 2604 1604Professional experience
Mr. Caffera has vast experience in counseling national and international companies and banking institutions in diverse operations such as mergers and acquisitions, shareholder agreements, financing, joint ventures and complex agreements, among others, having specialized in Civil and Commercial Law. He has advised a number of the foreign companies that made the most substantial investments in Uruguay in the past few years.
As an academic, he is Professor of Private Law II and III (Duties/Liabilities and Contracts) at Universidad de la República, Uruguay at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Visiting Researcher at Max Planck Institute of Comparative Law (Hamburg, Germany)
Publications
He has written several specialized books, such as:
- “Una Teoría del Contrato” (A Theory of Contracts) – 2008 – Fundación de Cultura Universitaria.
- “Responsabilidad Civil Contractual” (Contractual Civil Liability) – 2010 – Fundación de Cultura Universitaria.
- “Interest rates and usury law” (co-author) 1st ed. FCU 2007
- “Trust Agreements”. 1st ed. AEU 2003
- “The Economic Conditions of Contract in South American Law” chapter in S.Vogenauer and R. Momberg (ed) “The Future of Contract Law in Latinamerica” (1st. ed Hart Publishing 2017)
- “Law of Obligations: Theory of obligations, contracts and quasi-contracts”- 1st ed. FCU 2018
Education:
- Doctor in Law and Social Sciences – Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
- Notary Public – Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
- Master of Laws – University College London, United Kingdom
- Doctor in Law (PhD) – University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Languages:
- Spanish and english.
