María Agustina Fanelli Evans > O'Farrell > Buenos Aires, Argentina > Lawyer Profile

O'Farrell
French 3155
CP 1425AWM, CABA
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Work Department

Energy & Natural Resources -  Regulatory, Administrative & Constitutional Law - Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment 

Position

Agustina Fanelli Evans has been a Partner of the Public Law and Economic Regulation Department since 2014.

Career

She is an administrative law specialist, focused in energy, telecommunications and infrastructure sectors and activities with a strong regulation.

She has developed skills in tariffs revisions, contract renegotiation, public tender, antitrust, consumer defence, data protection, constitutional, environment and commercial matters.

She has a solid experience in complex litigations in national courts and international arbitration.

She currently gives advice to numerous companies within the energy, telecommunications, and infrastructure industries, as well as within other highly-regulated industries, including: Naturgy BAN, Edenor, Transener, Pampa Energía, Claro, YPF Luz, Edet, Esj, on matters related to administrative law, constitutional law, economic regulation and litigation.

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

  • Member of the Argentine Association of Administrative Law (Asociación Argentina de Derecho Administrativo)
  • Member of the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association
  • Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)

Education

She is a lawyer graduated with honors from the Law School of Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina Santa María de los Buenos Aires (2000).

In 2005, she obtained a Master’s Degree in Administrative Law from Universidad Austral.

In 2008, she attended the professional update program offered by the Academy of American and International Law, Institute for International and Comparative Law, sponsored by The Center for American and International Law, Dallas, Texas.

Lawyer Rankings

Argentina > Public law

(Next Generation Partners)

María Agustina Fanelli EvansO’Farrell

Argentina > Energy and natural resources > Electricity

(Next Generation Partners)

María Agustina Fanelli EvansO’Farrell

Argentina > Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas

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.