Gabriel R Macchiavello
Avenida de Mayo 701
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C 1084 AAC
Biography: Environment
Gabriel R Macchiavello is a partner in Rattagan Macchiavello Arocena & Peña Robirosa and heads the firm's environmental group, which is composed of 13 outstanding full-time lawyers.His work is focussed on advising multinational corporations on various environmental matters, including commercial transactions, investments, mergers and acquisitions. Mr Macchiavello has broad experience in complicate toxic tort and clean up cases. He has represented oil, gas and mining industries, energy and manufacturing companies in civil and environmental litigation at provincial and federal courts.
He earned his law degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1985. In 1987 he completed a graduate course in Environmental Law and Natural Resources at Universidad de Buenos Aires.
He served at the National Environmental Department to develop projects pertaining to cleaning up contaminated rivers, where he was in charge of the design of regulations for the control of water pollution. He was counsel of the Inter-American Development Bank in drafting an Institutional Environmental Programme for Argentina. The province of Neuquén selected him to coordinate an Environmental Institutional Strengthening Programme and to develop comprehensive environmental legislation for the oil and gas industries. In 1998 he was hired by the World Bank to implement the Environmental Protection Regulations for the Mining Industry in Argentina. He was also a member of the advisory committee of the Mining Policy Research Initiative of the International Development Research Center.
He has written several articles connected with environmental law and he has lectured in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, The United States and Canada. Mr Macchiavello has been an assistant professor for Natural Resources Law at the University of Buenos Aires, (1995-2000); and a visiting professor for Environmental Law at the University of Buenos Aires, Austral, San Andrés and Catholic University.
Mr Macchiavello is a member of the Buenos Aires Bar Association, International Bar Association, Inter-American Bar Association, Environmental Law Institute, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, the Center for International Legal Studies, the Latin American Environmental Law Association, the ethics working group at the Commission on Environmental Strategy and Planning IUCN and also a founding member of RIELA (Inter-American Network of Environmental Law Specialist). He represents the firm in the Environmental Law Network (ELN) composed of international firms. He is a former chair of the Environmental Department of the Argentina Industrial Association.
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