Leonardo G. Rodríguez

"Leonardo Gabriel Rodríguez is very competent and has solid knowledge. He inspires great confidence in his clients."
Chambers Latin America, 2024
 

Leonardo G. Rodriguez provides legal advice to mining companies. He specializes in mining and commercial law and litigation, areas in which he has vast experience. He has been a member of Marval O'Farrell Mairal since 2000 and became a partner in 2012.
 

In 2008 he worked as a foreign associate at Holland & Hart, Denver and before joining Marval, he worked as an associate at Estudio Ymaz and at the Ministry of Justice of the Province of Buenos Aires.

He graduated top of his class at Universidad Católica de La Plata (1997), holds a LLM in Natural Resources from the Sturm College of Law, University of Denver (2008), a Master in Business Law from Universidad Austral (1999) and a Master in Business Law from Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid (2002). He holds a PhD in Law from the Universidad Católica Argentina and his doctoral thesis was graded “outstanding-cum laude” with recommendation for publication (2022).

He is a widely published expert on mining and commercial law. He has taught Credit Documents at Universidad Austral and has been guest lecturer for the Master in Business Law at Universidad Austral and Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid. He taught mining law at the Universidad de San Andrés.

He is a member of the City of Buenos Aires Bar, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and he is founding member of the Argentinean Institute of Minning Law (“Instituto Argentino de Derecho para la Minería” - IADEM).