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Luis Alberto Erize

Address: 

Abeledo Gottheil Abogados
Av. Eduardo Madero 1020, 5th floor
C1106ACX Buenos Aires
Argentina

Phone Number: 
+54 11 4516 1500
Fax Number: 
+54 11 4311 3560
Email: 
erize@abeledogottheil.com.ar
Born: 
1946, Buenos Aires
Languages: 
Spanish English French Italian
Nationalities: 
Argentinian
Education: 
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Lawyer, 1975
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to the Bar (Federal Supreme Court), 1975
Present Position: 
Managing Partner
Professional Experience: 

Abeledo Gottheil Abogados (1976-1978), Partner
(1978-1996); Managing Partner (1997-); Professor of Constitutional Law,
School of Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1976-1987).

Professional Associations: 

International Bar Association, Council Officer of
the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law
(SEERIL) (2003-2004 and 2013-2014). Chair of the Oil & Gas Committee of
the SEERIL (2009-2011). Consultant Member of C.A.R.I. (Consejo Argentino
para las Relaciones Internacionales). Member of the International Council of
Environmental Law, Bonn, Germany.

Panels of Arbitrators: 

Luis Erize is on the list of energy specialized arbitrators
of the International Centre for Dispute Resolutions.

Arbitration Experience: 

ICC appointed sole arbitrator, in an international
dispute on the acquisition of a corporation. ICC appointed co-arbitrator, for his
expertise in energy and arbitration, in a multiparty international arbitration
regarding a large gas transmission pipeline in Latin-America. Counsel in several
international ICC arbitrations, and in national arbitrations related with joint
operating agreements, construction industry, major electric energy works and
infrastructure, rights of first refusal, oil & gas disputes and related litigation at
Courts, mergers & acquisitions. Counsel for the private parties in ICSID’s
international investments disputes (oil & gas upstream & midstream, power,
water public services) Vivendi and Total cases against Argentina. Counsel to an
acquisition dispute under Buenos Aires Stock Exchange Tribunal rules. Counsel
on multi party litigation and arbitration in USA and Argentina involving oil &
gas companies.

Areas of Specialization: 
Oil & Gas
Investment Treaty
Contracts
Constitutional Law
Business Law
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 
Co-author of the Argentine statement in the 5th. World Congress
of Insurance Law on Legal general principles of civil responsibility and
governmental regulations on pollution -infringer’s responsibility (1978).
Aspectos Prácticos legais e economicos da integraçao do Cone Sul, Cuadernos
do IRS, Volume 22 (1991). "Argentina's Exploration Plan. The Return of
Exploration Permits and Exploitation Concessions", Journal of Energy &
Natural Resources Law, 1992; “The Protection of the Foreign Investments in the
Argentine Republic”, La Ley, 2002-9; “The foreign corporations: new requisites
for the exercise of the investors’ rights”, La Ley, 2003-10. Co-author on Chapter
on Argentina, for the International Comparative Legal Guide to Gas Regulation
2007, Global Legal Group. Co-author of Trade and Investment Rules for Energy
(World Energy Council, 2009), “Eminent Domain and Regulatory Changes” in
Property and the Law in Energy and Natural Resources, Oxford University
Press, 2010