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I am a lawyer graduated with orientation in Corporate & Business Law and with honors from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires in 1991. I have been practicing corporate and procedural law for more than twenty years. I have participated, and I am still actively participating, in complex legal proceedings and international arbitration proceedings, in particular, those governed by the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and by the Rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), as well as in local arbitration proceedings, in particular, before the Mediation and Arbitration Business Center (CEMA) and the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange.

From 1991 to 2004 I worked as a lawyer in the Litigation and Arbitration Department with Sergio Le Pera, Esq. for the law firm Le Pera & Lessa. In 2004 I joined the law firm Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal, working in the same area of Law until 2013, when I was appointed Director of Arbitration Procedures of the Mediation and Commercial Arbitration Center of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce and Services (CEMARC).

During that period 2004-2013 I continued my training in alternative methods of dispute resolution. In 2010 I did a diploma course in arbitration at the School of International Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá, in Colombia, and began to study the dispute boards as means of preventing conflicts during the management of construction contracts. In parallel I held a diploma in State Contracts and Public Infrastructure at the Austral University.

In 2013, I joined Cappellini & Asociados, which allowed me to develop my practice of customs Law, which, like international commercial arbitration, requires as a prerequisite to know how to litigate and to know how international trade works. I hold a postgraduate degree in customs law at the National University of La Plata and I am trained in agribusiness by the Austral University.

I am admitted to practice in all the jurisdictions and instances of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, of the province of Buenos Aires and of the federal courts of Argentina. I am a member of the Bar Association of the Federal Capital and the La Plata Bar Association. I am a MEPRE prejudicial mediator (admitted to practice as a mediator by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Nation). I am the Director of Arbitration Procedures of the Mediation and Commercial Arbitration Center of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce (CEMARC). I was appointed arbitrator by the ICC Court of Arbitration. I am one of the arbitrators of the Permanent Arbitral Tribunal of the Conciliation and Arbitration Center of the La Plata Bar Association.

I am an appointing authority in ELARB (Association of European-Latin American Arbitration) and I am listed in the arbitrators' roster of the Court of Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Madrid, the Tribunal of Engineering of the Argentine Center of Engineers (TAI) and the Center of Arbitration of the Bolivian Chamber of Hydrocarbons and Energy (CEAR). I am a faculty member of the Diploma Course of Arbitration at the Austral University. I frequently participate in arbitration forums and events and write papers on arbitration specialty. I am the Argentine representative of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation.

I speak Spanish (mother tongue), English and Portuguese fluently (I am a certified and sworn translator of the Portuguese-Spanish pair, graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, and member of the Sworn Translators' Association of the City of Buenos Aires).