Mercedes is the founding and managing partner of MBB Abogados since 2012. She has over 25 years of experience in providing local and cross-border labour, social security, corporate management and human resources counsel to clients worldwide.

Considering that Employment and Labor practice in Latin-American is highly dominating by male lawyers, Mercedes has been featured among the leading lawyers in her practice area by Legal 500 Latin America for the years 2012-2023, Chambers & Partners for the years 2011-2023 and Who’s Who Legal for the years 2015-2022. She has been also singled out as “Though Leader – Global Elite Latin America 2022” as the only employment lawyer for Argentina, by Who´s Who Legal for the years 2019 -2022, Best Lawyer 2018-2023 and “Gender Diversity Lawyer of the Year – Argentina” by Chambers Diversity and Inclusion Awards in 2019. Also, she was distinguished among the 50 women leaders in employment law in 2022 by the International Employment Lawyer.

Mercedes is part of the management committee for the Global Forum for Cross Border Human Resources Experts and Co-Vice Chair for the Outreach Committee of American Bar Association Labor and Employment Section as unique representative for Latin America, and is member of the Equity Committee and of the Employment and Industrial Relationships Committee of the IBA.

Mercedes has the pleasure to be part of the editorial board of International Employment Lawyer, a relevant international labor publication known worldwide.

Mercedes has also received multiple other important recognitions by the legal community, chambers of commerce and professional associations.

As an advocate of anti-discrimination policies and gender diversity in the workplace, she is a prolific author and frequent speaker in local and international conferences.