Buenos Aires · Lima
Two markets that reward patience, local knowledge, and the willingness to say no. We have advised foreign companies and institutional investors through every cycle — in Argentina since 1998, in Peru since 1999.
About Orion
Orion Asociados was established in Buenos Aires in 1998. Since 1999 the firm has also been active in Peru. Our work is straightforward: we help foreign companies and institutional investors decide whether, how, and on what terms to enter these two markets — and we stay during implementation when clients want us to.
The discipline we bring is top-tier consulting: structured analysis, written record, decisions defended on the memo rather than the lunch. The execution is local: thirty years on the ground in Buenos Aires and Lima, conducted in Spanish, English, German, and Portuguese. In Peru and Argentina, the senior business community is small and personal. After three decades, we know it well.
What clients are paying for is a local, experienced, and disinterested party at the table. We are not dealmakers. We advise. The most valuable advice we have given — repeatedly — has been to not invest, or to walk away from a transaction the client wanted to do. That discipline is what we are paid for, and it is what has kept our client relationships intact across multiple cycles in two of the more demanding markets in Latin America.
Our Principles
What We Do
Orion advises foreign companies and institutional investors throughout the investment cycle. We work alongside top-tier local lawyers, accountants, and technical specialists — and our clients’ own teams — coordinating the moving parts and providing the objective view from the middle.
Sectors
Orion is not a generalist. Our work concentrates in the sectors where Peru and Argentina have real comparative advantage — and where foreign capital actually deploys. Specific mandates are listed further down.
Argentina
After two decades during which most large foreign investors disengaged, Argentina is again open for business. The 2024 RIGI framework offers thirty years of fiscal, customs, and currency stability to qualifying projects above defined thresholds. The Super RIGI announced in May 2026 extends the same logic to value-added industrial sectors — battery manufacturing, electric vehicles, solar and wind components, refining and rolling, data centers — that had effectively never existed at scale in the country.
The underlying assets are real: world-class lithium and copper reserves now becoming commercially viable, the Vaca Muerta hydrocarbon basin, a deep industrial base (automotive, nuclear, satellites), and a workforce that has consistently exported senior management talent to global companies. None of this is new. What is new is a policy framework that, for the first time in a generation, makes long-cycle foreign capital deployable on terms a board can defend.
For foreign companies that have not looked seriously at Argentina in years, the question is no longer whether to look but how. Orion’s role is to help foreign companies and institutional investors decide whether to step in, on what terms, and through what local architecture.
Peru
Peru has been the steadier of the two markets for a generation. A 35-million-person economy with disciplined macroeconomic management, a well-located Pacific coast, and natural endowment across mining, hydrocarbons, fisheries, and premium agriculture. Copper, gold, zinc, and lithium on one side; avocado, blueberry, citrus, table grape, and fishmeal exports on the other. Few emerging markets combine that breadth with this level of macro stability.
Logistics is changing the equation. The Chancay megaport, operational since late 2024, is reshaping Pacific trade flows. Corío, the proposed southern megaport in Arequipa, is moving through technical viability in 2026. Whatever the eventual phasing, Peru is consolidating its position as Latin America’s Pacific gateway — with second-order implications for industrial real estate, processing, and value-added agro-export.
Political volatility is a fact of life. Macroeconomic policy has been an island of continuity around it. For foreign investors with the patience to look past the headlines, Peru continues to be one of the most accessible and rewarding markets in the region.
Senior Advisors
Orion is a small firm. Two senior advisors carry the weight of client engagements directly, with vetted local specialists brought in on specific mandates. We list named credentials because foreign investors are entitled to know who they are working with.
Track Record
A representative sample of work executed since 1998. Some engagements ended in transactions, some in walked-away deals, some in operating businesses we built, ran, and eventually sold.
Begin the Conversation
We offer an initial, confidential conversation to foreign companies and institutional investors considering market entry or specific transactions in either country. A direct discussion about whether the opportunity is real for your situation — and whether we are the right firm to help.