Hugo Martelli
Latin America Guide 2025
Band 3 : Energy & Natural Resources: Oil & Gas
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About
Provided by 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.