Valentina Pawlow is an associate of Beccar Varela, having joined the firm in 2022.

She focuses on Corporate Advice, Mergers & Acquisitions and Banking & Financial Institutions, while also providing Pro-Bono legal services in Corporate, Criminal, and Family Law.

Prior to joining Beccar Varela, she worked at Allende & Brea, working in Corporate and Antitrust Law. She later worked as a Criminal Attorney with a former United Nations Special Rapporteur in the Rohingya genocide Argentine criminal case representing victims, as well as at Kaplun & Rubinska, a Criminal Law firm specialized in Business Crime.

Valentina obtained her Law degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (graduated with honors, 2020). She has a postgraduate course in Business Crime Law from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2022) and a Diploma in Cybercrime from the Universidad Austral (2021). In 2021, she was part of the team selected to represent the Universidad de Buenos Aires at a National University Conference on Criminal Litigation.

She serves as a Teaching Assistant at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in a Criminal Litigation course that selects and prepares the team to represent the university in national competitions. She is also the General Coordinator of the Transdisciplinary Institute for Criminal Studies in South America (ITEPSUR, for its Spanish acronym) and a volunteer in the Pro Bono legal team of the Argentine Forum of Executive Women (FAME, for its Spanish acronym).

She is a member of the Colegio Público de Abogados de la Capital Federal (Buenos Aires Bar Association).

In 2024, Valentina was awarded the International Bar Association Pro Bono Committee Scholarship, covering her attendance at the IBA Annual Conference in Mexico City.

She has authored and co-authored chapters in criminal law books, including “Business Criminal Law of the XXI Century. Vol. 3.”, directed by A. Catania, C. Scoponi and J. Fridenberg (Chapter 8, “Smuggling of foreign currency, violations of the criminal exchange regime and the guarantees of non bis in ídem and res judicata”) and “Criminal due process. Doctrine. Jurisprudential analysis. Fundamental rulings”, directed by Ángela. E. Ledesma (Chapter 6, “Virtuality in oral debate”).

She speaks Spanish and English, and has a basic knowledge of French.