Hugo Martelli

Practice Areas

Oil & Gas, Electricity, Mining, and Carbon Markets

Career

Lawyer (1980), graduate from Universidad de Buenos Aires

Master Degree in Law on Natural Resources and Energy (1983), Postgraduate Studies Department, Universidad de Buenos Aires

– Member of the Department of Legal Affairs of the Argentine National Parks Service (1980).

– Private legal practice (1987) in the oil and gas field as an associate and then partner of important law firms specialized in such area in the City of Buenos Aires

– Founding member of Martelli Abogados SC (1999)

Professional Memberships

– Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires

– Argentine Oil and Gas Institute (IAPG)

– Argentine-Canadian Chamber of Commerce

– Canadian Council of the Americas

– Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation

– Association of International Energy Negotiators

Personal

– Professor – Oil and Gas Law; Postgraduate Studies Department – Natural Resources and Energy, School of Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1986–1996)

– Professor – Law on Foreign Investments in Energy and Natural Resources; Postgraduate Studies Department – Business Law, School of Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1992–1998)

– Visiting Professor (1993), International Oil and Gas Course, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

– Professor – Legal Regime of Hydrocarbon Exploration and Exploitation in the Argentine Sea, Course on the Law of the Sea, Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) (1994-998)

Languages Spoken

Spanish and English.

Publications

- Oil & Gas Chapter – Lexology Panoramic – 2005-2023

- Economic, Social, and Value Integration – Argentina & Canada – GES Calgary – PDAC, Toronto - 2022

- Malvinas Islands: A Different Perspective – 2018

- Oil Policies over Thirty Years of Democracy – 2014

- YPF: The Interest of its Shareholders – La Nación Newspaper, 2014

- Oil Policies and Legal Security – 2012

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Argentina

Experience

Extensive experience in regulated and deregulated hydrocarbons and electricity markets.