| Professional Experience

Carlos E. Alfaro has a long standing career representing national and multinational corporations, lending institutions and banks and in the financing of large infrastructure projects, from gas and oil pipelines, electric utilities, steel mill plants, ferroalloys, ferrous and steel furnaces, real estate developments, export finance, hydro electrical projects, mining projects and road toll projects.

His experience represents twenty-five years of legal practice in different economic and legal environments in which risk allocation and protection require legal, economic and political expertise. In this sense, he has accumulated invaluable knowledge that contributes to its proficiency and capability in this area.

Currently, he is the chairman of the Argentine-American Chamber of Commerce in New York and also a member of the Executive Committee of the Section of International Law and Practice of the New York State Bar Association, Vice President of the American Foreign Law Association and active member of the International Bar Association.

He has been involved in numerous investments and transactions. Oil and Gas: Sinopec acquisition of Occidental Petroleum 23 concessions in Santa Cruz, Mining: Integra Lithium investments in Jujuy and Catamarca. Aviation: Bell Helicopter, Austral. Private Equity: GEM, Hicks Muse, The Exxel Group, Integra Capital. Clean Energy: Soltec Spain. Global industrial gases and engineering: Linde/Praxair. Infrastructure: CCA (China Construction América), Bechtel. Wineries: Salentein, El Portillo and Calia.

He has written and lectured extensively on a variety of legal issues arising out of his public and private activities. He has also been a professor of Administrative Law, specializing in government concessions and contracts at the State and Catholic University of Buenos Aires.