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We are a network of leading environmental law firms across the United States and the world, comprised of the highest quality lawyers. We collaborate with each other and share resources, knowledge, and relationships across the network to enhance our services to clients. Through this network our clients have access to trusted local representation worldwide.

Chambers Global, The World’s Leading Business Lawyers (2024) recognized the Environmental Law Network as a Band One Environmental Legal Network. ELN was the only environmental law network to be globally recognized in Chambers. For a complete listing of all ELN Lawyers and Firms recognized by Chambers Global, please click here.

The Environmental Law Network (ELN) is pleased to announce that twenty of ELN’s member law firms were recognized as The Best Lawyers in America and U.S. News Best Law Firms.  For a complete listing of all ELN members recognized by The Best Lawyers in America and U.S. News Best Law Firms, please click here.

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Estudio Gabriel Macchiavello


Estudio Gabriel Macchiavello specializes in Environmental Law, with focus on Industrial and Corporate needs. Our staff, highly experienced in the matter, provides both international and domestic corporations with advice on Technical Environmental standards and regulations. Every operation, counsel, administrative or judicial defense will encompass a comprehensive view of the Legal System to help enjoy all the rights and guarantees set forth in our Constitution, i.e. sustainable development, engaging in a lawful activity, private property, reasonability of regulations, nulla pena sine lege, or the right to a defense.We see things differently.

With that in mind, we have designated an area to provide comprehensive advice on Safety & Hygiene, Regulatory and Environmental Law. This team of Lawyers provide their insight for the correct interpretation and application of existing laws, and help obtain permits and authorizations, conduct and perform compliance audits and matrices. We support our clients in daily management issues, industrial facilities’ inspections, punitive procedures, lifting closures, environmental due-diligences. We also offer counsel in complex remediation processes, and help our clients through authorization processes. This area is in charge of the Environmental Matrix Management System (SIGEMA for its Spanish Acronym), a tool that helps corporations check the compliance of their Environmental and Safety & Hygiene regulatory obligations.

The Environmental Litigation and Enforcement Area of our firm is a team of Lawyers who have developed a special aptitude over the years to face toxic torts of far-ranging complexity in civil, criminal and administrative cases filed by Industrial facilities’ neighbors, NGOs or enforcement agencies. With broad experience in legal and administrative cases on environmental damage cessation and redress, fines and closures as consequence of the precautionary and preventive principle, the Law of Minimum Standards for Environmental Protection, hazardous wastes or environmental regulations on industrial effluents or air emissions, this area supports our clients with the aim put in avoiding or mitigating these conflicts, or handling them within reason, and defending their constitutional rights and guarantees.

Estudio Gabriel Macchiavello’s offices are in Buenos Aires – Argentina.

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Juliana Salvucci

Ms. Juliana Salvucci graduated with honors from the University of Buenos Aires in 2004. Since then she has consolidated her career as a toxic tort specialist.

She began focusing on Environmental Law since she was an undergraduate, and went on to take several Postgraduate courses on the subject. In 2005, she took the Postgraduate Course on Environmental Law and Economy offered by the University of El Salvador and the Carlos III University of Madrid, and in December 2009, she completed the Refresher Program in Oil and Gas of the University of Buenos Aires.

She was also assistant teacher in the orientation cycle of the University of Buenos Aires’s Law School in the subject “The justify to the Environment in Case Law” (2006-2012) and participated in many seminars and conferences on environmental issues and legal conflicts.

She was incorporated to the Environmental Conflicts’ Area of the Firm in 2008, and since then, she worked alongside Mr. Gabriel Macchiavello and Mr. Pedro Zambrano. This collaboration helped her acquire vast experience in different aspects of environmental conflicts (contentious administrative, civil and criminal, etc.) and gave her a comprehensive view of the conflict in order to draft more efficient defense strategies. At the same time, she has learned how to prevent prosecution for these conflicts by drafting the justify proposals.

She can interpret the technical-scientific disciplines related to Environmental Law, which helps her coordinate the necessary actions to assess the sites’ environmental situation, the production of expert reports and challenges. She also provides advice on environmental liability assessment.

She is proficient in English and has an intermediate level of French.

Ms. Salvucci can be reached at juliana.salvucci@emlex.com.


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