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Maria Beatriz Burghetto

Address: 

8, rue de Presbourg
Paris 75116
France

Phone Number: 
(+33) (0)1 44 05 80 00
Fax Number: 
(+33) (0)1 44 05 80 54
Email: 
burghett@hugheshubbard.com
Born: 
1967, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Languages: 
Spanish English French
Nationalities: 
Argentinian
Spanish
Education: 
University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) - LL.B, 1992
University of London (Queen Mary College) - LL.M. on International Business Transactions, 1996 (with Merit)
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Buenos Aires Bar (1992)
Paris Bar (2005)
Present Position: 
Counsel, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP (Paris office)
Professional Experience: 

Research employee (Court of Appeal in Commercial Matters (Branch D) (Buenos Aires, 1992-1994); Assistant Professor, Private International Law (University of Buenos Aires, 1992-1994 / 2002); Associate (Cassini & Rosati, Buenos Aires, 1997); Associate (Consorcio Beccar Varela, Bunge, Fiorito & Lynch, Buenos Aires, 1994-1995); Foreign Lawyer (Herbert Smith, London, 1997-1998); Associate (Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal and Estudio Beccar Varela (Buenos Aires, 1999 and 2000-2002); Assistant Counsel (Court of International Arbitration of the ICC, Paris, 2002-2004); Associate/Counsel (Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Paris, 2005-present).

Professional Associations: 

Current co-chair of the Latin American Commission (Paris Bar); Founding member and President of the French-Argentinean lawyers’ forum; Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Member, ICC Latin American group; Member of Arbitral Women.

Panels of Arbitrators: 

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; ICC Latin American Group; Association Française de l’Arbitrage (French Arbitration Association); International Arbitration Institute (IAI).

Arbitration Experience: 

Managed over 100 arbitral proceedings and assisted the parties and the arbitrators at every stage of the arbitration (ICC Court of Arbitration Secretariat, 2002-2004); as counsel, managed all stages of arbitral proceedings in the sectors of energy, construction, pharmaceutical, distribution and general corporate, under the ICC and UNCITRAL Rules, other domestic arbitral institutions, with some experience under ICSID Rules; researched and drafted legal opinions on numerous issues of international arbitration (2005-present).

Areas of Specialization: 
Arbitration & ADR
International Commercial Transactions
Private International Law
Contracts
Energy
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 
  • “The contribution made by the reform to French arbitration law” (to be published in “Past, present and future of International Arbitration - Liber Amicorum Bernardo Cremades and Yves Derains, to be published by the Peruvian Arbitration Institute) (co-authored)
  • “May courts in Latin American countries refuse recognition and/or enforcement of a foreign arbitral award that is being challenged at the place of arbitration?” (in Liber Amicorum Bernardo Cremades -La Ley, June 2010, pp. 273-289)
  • “El sistema de arbitraje CCI” (“The ICC arbitration system”) in “Resolución Alternativa de Conflictos” (Alternative conflict resolution), Editorial Hammurabi, Buenos Aires, October 2010, pp. 415-472)
  • “ICC” (Global Arbitration Review, 2006-2012–co-authored with José Rosell)
  • “Current status of arbitration legislation in Argentina” (Journal of International Arbitration, vol. 21, no. 6, December 2004, pp. 519-538)
  • “Notes on arbitration in Argentina” (article published in The Law and Business Review of the Americas, vol.9, no. 3, 2003, pp. 471-511)
  • Guest lecturer on international arbitration at the University of Alcalá (Spain) (2005-2006) and the University of Le Havre (November 2010 and November 2011).