Gabriel R. Macchiavello’s work has been focused on advising national and international corporations including industrial, energy, hydrocarbons and mining activities in connection with various environmental matters. He renders legal advice on climate change issues, carbon market and environmental regulatory issues. He has a broad experience in complex litigation, toxic tort and clean-up cases entertained by the Supreme Court and several state and federal courts. He earned his law degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1985. In 1987 he completed a graduate course in Environmental Law and Natural Resources at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Prior to the foundation of the Firm, he was a partner in Allende & Brea and head of that firm’s Environmental Law Department. In 1993 he was advisor to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Human Environment. He participated in the development of environmental policies for the City of Buenos Aires during privatization processes and in the making of several projects and ordinances. He served the National Environmental Law Department to develop projects pertaining to the cleaning-up of contaminated rivers (Matanza, Riachuelo), where he was in charge of the design of regulations for the control of water pollution. He was counsel of the Inter-American Development Bank in drafting an Institutional Environmental Program for Argentina. In 1997 the Province of Neuquén selected him to coordinate an Environmental Institutional Strengthening Program and to develop comprehensive environmental legislation for the oil and gas industries. In 1998 he was hired by the World Bank to organize and offer training courses to provincial mining authorities to implement the Environmental Protection Regulations for the Mining Industry in Argentina. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Mining Policy Research Initiative of the International Development Research Center. He has worked very closely with the American and Canadian law firms on mining and environmental issues in Latin America, and in 1998 he was co-founder of RIELA, an advisory system on environmental issues for clients with industrial transactions in several countries in the Americas. He was recognized as a leading environmental lawyer by Chambers & Partners and by Practical Law’s publication “Which Lawyer? Yearbook”. He has been included on the payroll experts of "Best Lawyers”. He was also recognized as an expert in environmental law by “Who’s Who Legal” He has written several articles on his field of expertise, including special studies on oil and mining legislation as well as on the environmental implications in business transactions. He frequently lectures at conferences in Argentina and abroad, and teaches at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Católica Argentina, Universidad Austral and Universidad de San Andrés, and at many business associations and organizations. He is a regular speaker at conferences organized by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, the American Bar Association, the Institute of the Americas, Government Institutions and the Inter-American Bar Association. He is a member of the Environmental Law Network (ELN) comprising law firms specialized in environmental law, most of them from the United States. He was appointed president of the Environment Department Argentine of the Union Industrial Argentina, a businessmen organization, for the 2006-2007 term. His affiliations include the Buenos Aires Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Inter-American Bar Association, the Environmental Law Institute, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, the Center for International Legal Studies, the Latin American Environmental Law Association, and the Ethics Working Group at the Commission on Environmental Strategy and Planning IUCN. He is also a founding member of RIELA, an Inter-American network of environmental lawyers. He speaks fluent English.