Agustín Siboldi > O'Farrell > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

Telecoms is a key sector area for O’Farrell, which leverages its specialist expertise in the sector to support clients on antitrust and competition matters. The team is also strong in other regulated industries – including energy, utilities and infrastructure – where it advises on industry-specific competition and regulatory matters. Telecoms and energy lawyer Agustin Siboldi, who has extensive antitrust expertise, is the main contact for competition law matters.

O’Farrell combines expertise from its corporate, public law and dispute resolution teams to provide clients in the energy, manufacturing, mining and food industries -among others- with a multi-disciplinary compliance offering. The team advises on the implementation and monitoring of compliance and anti-corruption programmes, as well as handling due diligence and internal investigations. Well-known litigation lawyer Jorge Muratorio co-leads the practice in conjunction with experienced public law practitioner Agustina Fanelli Evans. Energy sector expert Agustin Siboldi provides further partner-level input. Juan Pablo Fratantoni moved in house at Pan American Energy in November 2022.

O’Farrell draws on expertise from its public law, energy and litigation practices to advise clients in the extractive industries and heavily regulated power and telecoms sectors on a broad range of environmental law matters, including land remediation, visual contamination and renewable energy project development. The team also handles contentious environmental matters at the local, provincial and federal levels. Public law and economic regulation expert Jorge Muratorio leads the team, with the experienced regulatory practitioner Agustina Fanelli Evans and energy-focused Agustin Siboldi providing additional senior level support.

A key legal adviser to policymakers and investors through the privatisation of the electricity industry in the early 2000s, O’Farrell has built up a bank of deep expertise in both the renewable and traditional power generation industries. Combining extensive public law, dispute resolution, financing, M&A and antitrust capabilities, the team provides clients in the sector with an integrated, holistic service that covers the length and breadth of the entire power generation value chain, ranging from project financing and development through to transportation and distribution. A reference in the industry, the renowned Uriel F. O’Farrell is called on for advice on all energy-related corporate matters as well as the full gamut of regulatory, public policy and disputes work. He co-leads the team with regulatory, antitrust and disputes veteran Agustin Siboldi, a trusted adviser to the country’s largest energy companies; and Agustina Fanelli Evans, who is well-versed in energy sector public law, regulatory and litigation matters. Public law and litigation partner Jorge Muratorio provides further senior-level input, with public utilities, public contracts and litigation associate María Fortuna leading the second line.

Telecommunications regulation is a key focus area for O’Farrell, which played a key role in the privatisation and related licensing of the Argentine telecoms industry in the 1990s. The practice is known for the depth of its expertise in telecoms taxation, securing municipal authorisations and related litigation, with commercial matters also covered. Practice head Agustin Siboldi has vast telecoms regulatory experience and was an influential figure in the wave of telecoms’ privatisations of the 1990s. Public law and litigation experts Jorge Muratorio and Agustina Fanelli Evans are other key contacts.

O’Farrell draws on expertise from its public law, dispute resolution and electricity departments to provide clients in the oil-and-gas sector with assistance on regulatory, permitting, tariff reviews, bid processes, M&A and contentious matters. The practice handles a variety of upstream, downstream, transportation, distribution and commercialisation work, and has also advised on unconventional hydrocarbon projects in the Vaca Muerta shale formation. The practice is co-led by senior partner Uriel O’Farrell (corporate, M&A, regulation and disputes); Agustin Siboldi (regulation, exploration, production, distribution and commercialisation); and María Agustina Fanelli Evans (regulatory advisory, public contract renegotiations, tariff claims and litigious matters). Former practice head Juan Pablo Fratantoni moved in house at Pan American Energy.