Argentina
Lawyer specialized in Contract Law, Energy and International Arbitration, LL.M. in International Commercial Arbitration Law - Stockholm University. Areas of practice: Contracts, Compliance, General Business Law Practice, Public, Regulatory and Administrative Law. Litigation and International Commercial Arbitration. Fast learner, creative, able to work with multi-cultural and multi-discipline teams, motivated personality, always ready for challenges.
• Responsible for managing and leading all legal matters for Siemens Mobility S.A. • Counseling Business Partners in fields of expertise and ensuring adherence to processes. • Ensuring effective legal risk management (operative & strategic topics). • Developing and influencing processes and methods to identify and mitigate legal related business risks and promoting respective actions. • Selecting and managing engagements of external legal lawyers. • Promoting legal policies and interests and representing Siemens Mobility Legal internally and externally. • Managing disputes and claim management processes. • Acting as Compliance Ambassador, as local point of contact for employees and the Compliance Officer, answering basic compliance questions, supporting compliance communication initiatives, and highlighting potential risks. • Conducting in-house legal training as required by the business.
Area: Contracts, General Business Law Practice, Compliance, Litigation. • Advising in all legal aspects in project business during both sales and execution phases for Siemens’ Mobility business in Argentina in order to mitigate risk exposures. • Advising on contractual questions and claims, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating of all legal documents and transactional support on key deals and projects. • Assisting the sales teams in preparation of commercial bids and in the contractual structuring of projects and bids, including reviewing of tender documents, framework agreements, supply, services, consortium agreements, NDAs, among others. • Managing internal specific limits of authorization regarding release/approval of specific contract risks. • Managing disputes and claim management process including liaising with and supervising external lawyers. • Acting as Compliance Ambassador, as local point of contact for employees and the Compliance Officer, answering basic compliance questions, supporting compliance communication initiatives, and highlighting potential risks. • Conducting in-house legal training as required by the business.
Area: Procurement and Contracts, Public and Regulatory law. • Analyzing, drafting and reviewing complex construction, service and sale contracts. Particularly projects funded by international financial institutions (BID, CAF, BIRF, etc.). • Reviewing and awarding Legal Opinions related to public procurements, ensuring compliance with all relevant law and regulation. • Counseling and providing legal advice in matters related to public procurements and administrative law. • Active member of a team that created, developed and maintained the legal toolkit for Procurement, reviewing standard contract documents, terms & conditions, guidance notes, etc.
Area: Procurement and Contracts, Public and Regulatory law, General Business Law Practice. • Counseled and provided legal assistance for foreign and domestic companies as well as the Argentinean Department of Energy in matters related to Administrative and Commercial Law, Electrical Power, Oil and Gas. • Reviewed and awarded Legal Opinions related to bids and high-risk contracts in line with client policies and procedures, advising on legal risk mitigation strategies. • Analyzed, drafted and negotiated complex construction, service and sale contracts (EPC, O&M, etc.). • Ensured bids and contracts complied with limits of authority directives.
Area: International Arbitration and Oil & Gas. • Counseled and provided legal assistance in relation with international commercial arbitration matters (particularly ICC and ICSID arbitrations) in which contractual and oil and gas aspects were involved. • Active member of a team that represented the largest Argentine natural gas producer and exporter in three ICC parallel multi-party, multi-contract proceedings against a Brazilian natural gas importer, an international power generation company, and a natural gas transportation company. The dispute involved cross border contracts and cross claims, and an underlying claim of US$1.5 billion.