Managing Partner
Ignacio Adrian Lerer
Lawyer, business adviser, director, legal representative and statutory auditor.
Professional profile
Lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires and Executive Master in Business Administration from IAE Business School, Austral University. He has more than 35 years of experience combining corporate law, business management, corporate governance, compliance, negotiation and strategic risk management.
Executive career
Independent practice and corporate governance
He has led Lerer Consulting since 2011, advising companies and shareholders and serving as director, legal representative, statutory auditor and compliance professional in local and international structures across fintech, payments, manufacturing, mining, energy, software, agribusiness and services.
Alto Parana S.A. / Arauco Argentina, 1997-2011
As Legal and Corporate Affairs Manager and group company director, he led legal affairs, public affairs, human resources, labor relations and fraud prevention, with direct involvement in acquisitions, integration, crisis management, labor negotiations and institutional relations.
Alpargatas Group, 1993-1997
He served as in-house counsel and subsequently as Head of Legal Advisory, supporting industrial and commercial businesses.
Selected experience
- Corporate governance, boards and fiduciary duties.
- Representation of foreign companies and shareholders in Argentina.
- Integrity programs, compliance and fraud prevention.
- Mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and complex negotiations.
- Crisis management, labor matters and stakeholder relations.
- Legal and business advice in regulated industries and fintech structures.
Institutional and academic work
He served as President of the Argentine Forestry Association, of which he is now an honorary member; President of Argentina's forest certification organization; and Vice President of the pulp and paper industry association. He taught Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the University of Buenos Aires, conducted research at the Ambrosio L. Gioja Institute and served as Director of the legal journal Lecciones y Ensayos.
Innovation, research and publications
Since 2025, he has developed artificial-intelligence solutions for law, corporate governance and integrity. He founded and leads JustitIA, a legal-intelligence infrastructure for research, document analysis and professional work with sources, controls and human review, and IntegridAI, a platform for managing, assessing and training on integrity programs, compliance and risk governance.
IntegridAI placed second and received the Incubation Award at HackAI 2025, Universidad Austral, and was selected among the projects currently supported by the university's business incubator.
In parallel, he researches and writes on artificial intelligence, legal evolution, automated-system governance and institutional transformation.
Education
- Executive Master in Business Administration, IAE Business School, Austral University.
- Law degree, University of Buenos Aires.
- Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.
- Native Spanish and advanced English.