LEONARDO ORLANSKI
PARTNER
EDUCATION
Leonardo Orlanski is a lawyer graduated from Universidad Austral with Gold Medal (2000) and has a Master in Administrative Law, obtaining also the Master Medal (2003).
EXPERIENCE
Leonardo Orlanski has recognized expertise in regulatory, competition and administrative law. In 2014 he founded Orlanski & Asociados Abogados, a law firm focused on regulatory and competition advise in different countries. Previously, he was a partner at Rosso Alba, Francia & Asociados since 2005.
At the Austral University, he is head professor of Constitutional Law and also conducts lectures of economic regulation at the Master in Administrative Law. At the San Andrés University, he teaches at the Renewable Energy program. He has been lecturer at the congresses including one concerning regulation of public utilities, where he addressed competition concerns on that field.
Leonardo Orlanski has been recommended as one of the «Leaders in their field» (Public Law) by Chambers Latin America.
Mr. Orlanski has long years of experience in competition and in regulated sectors, particularly energy, telecommunications and other infrastructure industries, in Argentina as well as in other countries.
In the competition law field, he provided advise to BP in the sale of its investment to Pan American Energy, USD 7.1 billion; Latin Lawyer 11.30.10.
He also provided competition advise for the design and implementation of joint venture projects for the piping industry in several countries such Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Malaysia,Colombia, Perú, among others. He has also advised clients in M&A and anticompetitive conducts processes in Argentina and abroad, in industries including oil; telecommunications (i.e. the acquisition of the mobile company CTI – today Claro, one of the largest mobile companies in Latin America); grains; car manufactures; tubes; beverages; transportation; ports; energy; among others.
Among his recent professional challenges, he has been an advisor to Uber in the launch and deployment of its operations in Argentina.
BOOKS PUBLISHED
Competition and Regulation, Ad Hoc, Buenos Aires, 2006.
ARTÍCLES PUBLISHED
«Blocking ride-sharing applications goes against free speech and human progress» – Oxford Human Rights Hub, 2018.
«The Banning of Ridesharing Apps Violates the Human Rights to Science and Free Speech» – Oxford Human Rights Hub, 2018.
«La Corte Suprema clarifica los criterios para determinar poder sustancial de mercado», revista El Mundo del Abogado, México, 2 de Agosto de 2018. En coautoría con Esteban Russell.
«La defensa de la competencia desde el derecho público. Su diseño institucional, su interacción con otras formas de intervención estatal en la economía y el procedimiento aplicable», RAP, 2013.
«Regulación del espectro radioeléctrico en Argentina», La Ley, 2005.
«Ilegitimidad de la doctrina del sometimiento voluntario en la licitación pública», elDial, 2003.
«Naturaleza de la ‘función jurisdiccional’ de los entes reguladores», elDial, 2002.
«The Banning of Ridesharing Apps Violates the Human Rights to Science and Free Speech», Oxford Human Rigths Hub, 2018
PABLO A. CARDOZO GARCÍA
PARTNER
EDUCATION
Pablo Cardozo García is a lawyer graduated with honors from the Universidad Austral in 2012.
He is a Master in Law (LL.M.) with a concentration in Administrative Law from the Austral University.
He did a university exchange at Fordham University – School of Law in New York (2012).
EXPERIENCE
Pablo A. Cardozo García worked as an associate at the law firm Orlanski & Asociados since 2015. Previously, he worked as an associate at the law firm Rosso Alba, Francia & Asociados (2012-2015) and as a paralegal at the law firm Baker & McKenzie (2011).
He works in various areas, but his work focuses mainly on constitutional and regulatory law, international human rights law and administrative law.
For several years, he has been advising technology companies on the various fronts that arise in the development of their businesses and products in Argentina and in different markets. He has also advised important national and foreign media groups on matters related to freedom of expression and competition in the sector.
At the academic level, he is an Adjunct Professor in the Chair of Constitutional Law II (Human Rights) of the Faculty of Law of the Austral University and is Professor in charge of the Right to Information subject at the Faculty of Communication of the Austral University.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED
«Reflections on the Uber case in the City of Buenos Aires: do we still not understand article 19 of the National Constitution?», Topics in Administrative Law, Erreius, August 2019, Digital Quote IUSDC286765A.
“Blocking of websites and mobile applications by local judges. A violation of federalism and freedom of expression on the Internet: the ‘Uber’ case, ”La Ley, Year LXXXII No. 207, Tomo La Ley 2018-F, Buenos Aires, 11/02/2018.
«The admissibility of limits to the derived Constituent Power, on the occasion of the Schiffrin ruling», Argentine Jurisprudence, Fascicle 5 – 2017 – II, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cita Online: AP / DOC / 296/2017, dated 05/03/17 .
“The exchange regulation and the summaries of the BCRA. An insurmountable gap between the Constitution and reality ”(co-authored with Leonardo Orlanski), Abeledo Perrot No. AP / DOC / 1193/2015, SJA 2016/10 / 19-29; JA 2016-IV.
