Allende & Brea

Energy and Natural Resources: Mining

Partner. Florencia Heredia is an expert in mining law with 27 years extensive experience advising companies and financing institutions in complex mining transactions in Argentina.

Florencia Heredia is an expert in mining law with 27 years extensive experience advising companies and financing institutions in complex mining transactions in Argentina. She has been involved in almost all transactions and projects that have taken place in the country, having repeatedly represented lenders in the Bajo de la Alumbrera, Cerro Vanguardia and Veladero projects all major mining project finance that took place in Argentina.

She is currently very active in the lithium sector which involves many challenges for the mining sector, at the innovation and technical as well as social levels.

In 1997 she worked for Beiten Burkhardt Mittl & Wegener (today Beiten Burkhardt), one of the leading international German law firms based in Münich.

She has been Visiting Professor at Denver University, Colorado, USA were she taught “Comparative Latin-American Mining Law” at the Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Graduate Course directed by Professor Don Smith. She is currently professor at the Austral University at the Pre Master course where she teaches Mining Law and at the Master of Mining Business Management lectured at the Universidad Católica de Cuyo, in the province of San Juan.

For the past 20 years, she has been repeatedly cited as a leading practitioner in Natural Resources law by, among others, Chambers & Partners, Who's Who Legal and Legal 500 including being named “Mining Lawyer of the Year” in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019 by Who's Who Legal.

She is fluent in Spanish, English, German and Italian.

She is an active member of the International Bar Association, where she held the position of Chair of the Mining Law Committee (2014-2015), she is currently council member of SEERIL. She has been twice Trustee at Large of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, for which she also served as Secretary to the Board (2014-2015). She is member of the Academic Board of RADHEM in Argentina, publication specialized in Energy and Natural Resources.

She has recently joined the Women Corporate Directors foundation, since as of January 2018 she holds the position of Non Executive Independent director of Galaxy Lithium, Australian public company leader in the lithium sector.

She received her law degree with honors (summa cum laude) from Universidad Católica Argentina in 1991. She also received with honors (summa cum laude) a Master degree on Business Law from Universidad Austral in 1995. She has a degree with honors (summa cum laude) on corporate sustainability from IESC (Instituto de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad Corporativa).