Ignacio Adrian Lerer

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. He spent eighteen years as in-house counsel, leading functions beyond the traditional legal remit, and has twenty years of experience serving on boards and governing bodies across multiple industries. That background supports a preventive and predictive legal perspective focused on understanding the business, anticipating risk and supporting the execution of decisions and contracts. He designs and develops artificial-intelligence products, agents and tools for law, compliance and corporate governance.

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.

Areas of expertise

• Corporate governance, boards, statutory audit and fiduciary duties.
• Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, changes of control and defense against hostile takeover attempts.
• Interim management, transitional executive leadership and continuity during reorganizations or replacements.
• Labor relations, collective bargaining, union negotiations, industrial conversion and organizational transformation.
• Crisis management, public affairs, corporate spokesperson roles and engagement with authorities, media and stakeholders.
• Representation of foreign companies and shareholders in Argentina.
• Integrity programs, internal investigations, compliance and fraud prevention.
• Legal and business advice in regulated sectors, fintech, artificial intelligence and digital business.

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. His pro bono work includes SilverIA Law and public educational skills and legal checklists on Lawve.

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.