Gabriela Antonelli Michudis

Gabriela Antonelli Michudis obtained her law degree from Universidad de Buenos Aires, specializing in Private law.

After a successful experience as an in-house counsel at Banco Mayo Cooperativo Limitado, in 1991 she became a partner at the Firm representing financial and cooperative entities in litigation.

As an experienced corporate lawyer, Ms. Antonelli Michudis is frequently asked to provide advice on a broad range of legal matters, including business organizations, contracts, insolvency prevention, and corporate reorganization proceedings.

In this area of law, she has uninterruptedly given advice to trustees and represented companies in their reorganization plans, having built a remarkable career by obtaining many widely known landmark cases.

Some of these cases include (i) a decision providing for the automatic application of emergency laws to situations of non-consolidated bankruptcies; (ii) the Rafiki decision, rendered en banc by the Court of Appeals on Commercial Matters in the City of Buenos Aires, in which a mandatory interpretative standard was set to review verification decisions; and (iii) a decision providing for the discharge of the bankruptcy proceedings due to payment by a third party. She has also argued cases before the Argentine Supreme Court and obtained precedents of great social and economic significance.

Ms. Antonelli Michudis has also obtained some significant international accomplishments, such as the recognition of the Argentine jurisdiction on bankruptcy at the Commercial Court of Paris and the acceptance of the Swiss banking secrecy in local succession cases.

Outside corporate law, she has represented the normalizing commission of the Argentine Football Association (Asociación de Fútbol Argentino, AFA) at the federal level. She has also handled multiple pro bono cases for the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association, of which she is currently a member.

Ms. Antonelli Michudis combines her practical experience with a solid academic background. She has obtained a postgraduate degree in insolvency restructuring, completed a specialization in corporate legal advice, finished with merits her Master’s Degree in Commercial and Business Law at Universidad de Buenos Aires with a dissertation on out-of-court reorganization agreements, and is now a PhD candidate with a focus on commercial law at the same law school.

Moreover, she has been a guest speaker at several scientific national and international conferences and has contributed to specialized literature, authoring multiple papers and articles. Among many others, she has recently finished a chapter on securities in an annotated edition of the Argentine Civil and Commercial Code and has just published a contribution on the law of commercial distribution in times of economic emergency. Additionally, she has directed an interdisciplinary “Ubanex” research project, titled “The Internal Dimension of Corporate Social Responsibility.”

After being admitted in 1998 to the teaching-training course, she was appointed as an assistant professor of law at Universidad de Buenos Aires School of Law, in the area of commercial law. Ms. Antonelli Michudis has taught Modern Merchant Deals, Securities, and Introduction to Commercial Law. She is currently teaching insolvency and bankruptcy law, both at the graduate and post-graduate levels.

In connection with her academic service activities, she is the Secretary of the Economic and Corporate Law Department at Universidad de Buenos Aires School of Law and, since 2018, she is part of the group of lawyers chosen by Universidad de Buenos Aires to represent the institution in the proceedings under Law No. 27328 of 2016.

She has also been a member of the Representative Assembly of the City of Buenos Aires Bar Association during 2008–2010, and a substitute member of that body during 2012–2014.

Finally, she has been selected by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights as a member of the commission tasked with the adequation of pre-bankruptcy proceedings aimed at adding procedures and solutions in connection with the over-indebtment of consumers and the crisis of small businesses.