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An attorney with more than twenty-five years of experience in administrative law, specializing in the regulation of the electric power and public utilities sectors.

She provides comprehensive advice to domestic and international companies on matters related to government regulation, public procurement, energy, and infrastructure. In this context, she has extensive experience in complex litigation before national courts—including the Supreme Court of Justice of Argentina—and in domestic, international, and investment arbitration proceedings.

He is also well-known for his academic work as a university professor and is the author of numerous publications in his field of expertise.

He has been a partner at Cassagne Abogados since 2005. Previously, he worked at Cárdenas, Cassagne & Asociados, at EDESUR S.A. (Legal Affairs Department), at López Olaciregui, and in the National Judiciary, in the Federal Administrative Litigation Jurisdiction.

He served as an Associate Judge of the First Instance of the Federal Administrative Court (2004–2010). He has served as a trustee for CAMMESA (Compañía Administradora del Mercado Mayorista Eléctrico S.A.) on behalf of AGUEERA since 2016. He has been a member of the Arbitration and ADR Commission of ICC Argentina since 2023 and served as a director of the Buenos Aires City Bar Association (2021–2022).

He was recognized as a Leading Individual (Band 3) in the Energy and Natural Resources practice area by Chambers Latin America from 2010 to 2016.

Education and Academic Activities

He graduated with a law degree from the School of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (1997). He completed a refresher course in public law at the University of San Pablo-CEU in Madrid (2002).

He has been a Full Professor of Administrative Law at the Universidad del CEMA since 2023. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor, Adjunct Professor, and Associate Professor of the same subject at the University of Buenos Aires, the Argentine Catholic University, Austral University, and the University of Belgrano, among other institutions.

He has focused his teaching activities on master’s degree programs, specialization programs, and graduate-level courses, including the Master’s in Economic Administrative Law at the Catholic University of Argentina; the Master’s in Administrative Law at Austral University; the Specialization Program in Administrative Law and Public Administration at the University of Buenos Aires School of Law; the Postgraduate Program in Economic Regulation and the Specialization in Public Services Regulation Law at Austral University; and the Postgraduate Program in Administrative Law at the University of Belgrano, in subjects related to energy, public services, state liability, and arbitration. He also regularly participates as a speaker and panelist at national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars related to these same subjects.

Memberships

• Chair of the Energy Law Committee of the Buenos Aires City Bar Association.
• Member of the Institute of Administrative Law of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Buenos Aires.
• Member of the ICC Argentina Arbitration and ADR Commission.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Revista de Derecho Administrativo (LexisNexis).
• Member of the Argentine Association of Procedural Law.
• Member of the Buenos Aires City Bar Association and the Federal Capital Public Bar Association.

Publications

Author of an extensive body of scholarly work on administrative law, economic regulation, energy, public services, arbitration, and state liability. He has published more than 50 articles, case notes, commentaries, and research papers in specialized legal journals and leading legal newspapers, including *La Ley*, *El Derecho*, *Revista de Derecho Administrativo*, *Jurisprudencia Argentina*, and *Rubinzal-Culzoni*, as well as in collective works and reference treatises on public law, among which the following stand out:

“The Reasonable Duration of Administrative Proceedings as a Guarantee of Due Process” (commentary on the Losicer v. BCRA decision), Ibero-American Journal of Administrative Law and Economic Regulation, December 14, 2012 (IJ-LXVI-909).

“A Preliminary Analysis of the Amendments to the LNPA Regarding Various Issues Concerning the Expiration and Statute of Limitations of Actions and Rights,” in *Foundations for Freedom in Argentine Administrative Law—White Volume* (ed. Enrique Alonso Regueira), Association of Professors of the School of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2025, p. 243.

“ICSID: The ‘Fair and Equitable Treatment’ Standard in Light of Changes to Argentina’s Electricity Regulatory Framework” (commentary on the Orazul ICSID award of December 14, 2023), ICC Argentina Arbitration Bulletin, 2024, No. 4.

“Public Enterprises and DNU 70/2023: The Vexed Question of State Intervention in the Economy,” in Public Law and Decrees of Necessity and Urgency (Regarding DNU 70/2023) (Ed. Juan Carlos Cassagne; Coord. Pedro Aberastury), Rubinzal-Culzoni, Santa Fe, 2023.

“Some Reflections on the State Liability Regime and Its Differences from the Civil Liability System Under Private Law” (in collaboration with Pablo E. Perrino), El Derecho, Vol. XL, No. 15,256, March 11, 2022.

“Arbitration as a Dispute Resolution Mechanism in PPP Contracts (Decree 936/2017),” Revista de Derecho Administrativo, No. 117, Abeledo Perrot, Buenos Aires, May/June 2018.

“Regulation of the Electricity Sector in Argentina,” in Energy Law in Latin America (edited by Luis F. Moreno Castillo and Víctor Rafael Hernández-Mendible), Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá, 2017, vol. I.

“Érase una vez… la actividad de distribución de energía eléctrica en jurisdicción federal” (en colaboración con Álvaro E. Estivariz), Revista Argentina de Derecho de la Energía, Hidrocarburos y Minería (RADEHM), Año 2, n.° 7, Ábaco de Rodolfo Depalma, noviembre/diciembre 2015 – enero 2016, pág. 273.

“La estabilidad del acto administrativo”, Revista Iberoamericana de Derecho Administrativo y Regulación Económica, n.° 5, agosto de 2013 (publicación digital).

“Arbitrajes internacionales, servicios públicos y emergencia”, La Ley, Buenos Aires, diario del 28 de agosto de 2013.

“Los arbitrajes internacionales de inversión y los contratos de servicios públicos afectados por la emergencia”, en Tratado General de los Contratos Públicos (Dir. Juan Carlos Cassagne), La Ley, Buenos Aires, 2013, tomo II, pág. 1155.

“La interpretación de la ley administrativa en materia de excepciones a la estabilidad del acto regular” (comentario al fallo Almagro), en Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación. Máximos precedentes: Derecho Administrativo (Dir. Juan Carlos Cassagne), La Ley, Buenos Aires, 2013, tomo I, pág. 525.

“El procedimiento administrativo en la Argentina”, en Tendencias actuales del procedimiento administrativo en Latinoamérica y Europa (Coords. Pedro Aberastury y Hermann-Josef Blanke), Eudeba – Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Buenos Aires, 2012, pág. 271.