FULL NAME: Alfredo L. Rovira

CURRICULUM VITAE

I.  PERSONAL DATA

FULL NAME: Alfredo L. Rovira

NATIONALITY: Argentine

Avenida Callao 1016 – Piso 10 (Office)

1023 – Buenos Aires

Argentina

e-mail: ()

Tel: +54 11 4816 - 3232 (office)

Cel: +54 911 4416 7517[1]

Cel: 011 15 4416 7517[2]

II. EDUCATION

II.1 UNIVERSITY DEGREES and PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

-  Doctor in Laws (PHD), Universidad de Buenos Aires (Cum Laude), November 2003. Recommended to School of Laws Award.

-  Lawyer (LLM-Solicitor). Law and Social Sciences School - Universidad de Buenos Aires - Graduated on December 15, 1967.

-  Procurador (LLB-Barrister). Law and Social Sciences School – Universidad de Buenos Aires - Graduated on June 30, 1967.

-  Certified Mediator. Universidad Austral Law School –, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999.

-  Certificates issued at several specialization courses, attended as a post-graduate, at the Law and Social Sciences School, Universidad de Buenos Aires on the subjects of Accountancy and Taxes.

-  Member of the permanent Arbitration Panels of the following organizations: Commercial Dispute Resolution Center of the Americas, located in Miami, Florida, United States of America, American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (AMCHAM); Union Industrial Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Arbitration Panel of the Arbitration and Mediation Business Center of the City of Buenos Aires; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Arbitration Panel of the Settlement and Arbitration Center of the Argentine-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, San Pablo, Brazil; Montevideo Stock Exchange, Montevideo, Uruguay. Comité Argentino de Arbitraje Nacional y Transnacional, Buenos Aires (CARAT), Cámara Argentina de Comercio (correspondent member of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, France). Arbitration Tribunal of the Rio Grande Bar Association, Province of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur.

-  Arbitrator appointed by either Plaintiffs and/or Defendants in several domestic and international arbitrations representing domestic and foreign parties or appointed by the Chairman of the Arbitration Court or as third arbitrator by panelists’ agreement in arbitration proceedings under the ICC, UNCITRAL, CEMA and CAMARA DE COMERCIO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS EN ARGENTINA (AMCHAM). Chairman of the Arbitration Court in three arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Rules. Details provided in Appendix attached hereto.

-  Expert Witness as an expert on Argentine Law in proceedings with the London Court of International Arbitration, London, United Kingdom (2002), International Arbitration on Bilateral Investments Treaty at ICSID, Washington, DC., USA (2006) and with the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (2014) as well as in litigations conducted in Brazil, the USA and Spain. Details provided in Appendix attached hereto.

-  Party’s counsel in several international and domestic arbitrations held under ICC, UNCITRAL, CEMA and Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires Rules. Of counsel to parties´s counsel in several international arbitrations held under AAA (American Arbitration Association), ICC and London Court of International Arbitration, London, United Kingdom (2003-2004) involving disputes on political risks coverage claims on transferability of currency, convertibility of currency, bank´s obligations and loans, concession and privatization contracts.

-  The issues subject to arbitration, in which Dr. Rovira acted as arbitrator in any of the abovementioned capacities were: a) disputes arising from shareholders’ agreements and their effect on public transportation concession and stock purchase agreements; b) disputes arising from public works agreements; c) termination of commercial distribution and technology transfer agreements; d) disputes arising from the interpretation of stock purchase agreements of companies organized under Argentine laws. e) dispute in shareholders conflict; and f) breach of contracts and dispute on contract terminations and other contractual disputes related with transport and energy (electricity generation and gas compression and processing).

-  Places of arbitration: Buenos Aires, Argentina, New York, Miami and Washington DC, United States of America.

-  Language of the arbitration proceeding: Spanish and English

-  Practice: Legal counsel to local and foreign companies in Argentina.

o  From 1968-1970 practiced as solo practitioner.

o  From May, 1970 through May 2013 joined Brons & Salas, Attorneys at Law, with principal offices in Buenos Aires, and associated offices in Cordoba, Province of Cordoba and Rosario, Province of Santa Fe. Dr. Rovira Chaired the Corporate Department and after his appointment as Managing Partner of the firm (maintaining such position until May 2012) he Chaired the Arbitration Department and also co-chaired the Corporate Department of the firm until May 2013, when Dr. Rovira retired as partner of Brons & Salas.

-  Since June 2013 and currently he acts as “of counsel” to various law firms on a non exclusive basis, including Brons & Salas. From his own firm, Estudio ROVIRA, he also acts as consultant to in-house legal departments while also acting as Project leader negotiator in complex contracts and litigates in complex contract and shareholders disputes, antitrust matters, arbitrations and provides expert witness opinions. Occasionally, from his own firm and with his staff, handles specific projects on contract, antitrust and corporate issues which require high degree of specialization.

-  Dr. Rovira served as a member of the Board of Directors of HB Fuller Co., from 2003 through July 2013. HB Fuller Co. is a specialty Chemicals company, with headquarters in St. Paul, MN., USA which quotes its stock in the NYSE. As board member he acted in both the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee as well as in the Audit Committee.

-  Dr. Rovira´s area of specialization is Business Law with emphasis in Commercial Laws (Corporate and Contract Law, Antitrust as well as Insolvency and Creditors´Rights). Litigator in disputes involving the above mentioned subject matters, arbitrator and mediator.

III. ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

-  Member of the Business Law Institute of the National Law Academy (Academia Nacional de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales), Buenos Aires, Argentina (tenure valid June 27, 2013/2016 renewed until 2019).

-  Correspondent Member of the Bussiness Law Institute of the School of Laws of Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay (May 30, 2013).

-  Chair Consulting Professor (Profesor Titular Consulto) by appointment of the High Council of the National University of Buenos Aires (Res. C.S. 5965 del 19/12/12) and by Res. 8043 del 4/3/2013 of the School of Laws of such University, with tenure valid until 18 December 2019. Chair Professor of Business Laws in charge of the subjects “Elementos de Derecho Comercial” (Commercial Law Elements), of “Sociedades Civiles y Comerciales” (Corporate Law) and “Títulos de Crédito y Concursos” (Commercial Papers and Insolvency Law) (appointed by Universidad de Buenos Aires Council’s Resolution No. 830/06 dated October 9, 2006 with appointment valid through 2013 extended until a substitute is appointed by public contest), School of Law, National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Formerly designated Interim Leading Professor in the same Chapter by School of Laws Council’s Resolution 16627/2000. Professor of Corporate and Contract Law at Postgraduate and Master in Law Programs of the School of Law, University of Buenos Aires.

-  Professor of Corporate Law at the Argentine Catholic University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Master in Business Law Program (2007- present)

-  Adjunct Professor of Business Law (appointed by Resolution No 1503/2003) of the Departamento de Derecho Económico y Empresarial (Corporate and Business Law Department) of Universidad de Buenos Aires, Law School, Buenos Aires, July 23, 2003, valid through 2010, after entering Teaching at Law School, Universidad de Buenos Aires, in 1970.

-  Visiting Professor, Universidad Notarial Argentina, Buenos Aires, postgraduate courses (2001-present).

-  Visiting Professor “Universidad Católica Argentina”, Postgraduate Course in Corporate Law (1993-present). MBA in Corporate Law (2007 – present).

-  Visiting Professor of Corporate Law at the Program for Master on Business Law of the Universidad Austral, Rosario Branch, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina (1999-present).

-  Visiting Professor, Universidad Siglo XXI, Córdoba, Province of Córdoba, Argentina - Program to Master in Business Law (1998-2000).

-  Associate Professor (appointed by Resolution of the Qualifying Examination Board) of Civil and Commercial Companies and Business Law, at the Law and Social Sciences School, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1989-1992). Tenure in office up to 1998.

-  Professor of Corporate Law- Program to Master in Business Law and Postgraduate Courses, Universidad Austral (1992-2009).

-  Member of the Academic Council - Program to Master in Business Law at Universidad Austral (1992-2006).

-  Professor of Business Law I, Commercial and Civil Companies and Commercial and Civil Contracts at the Law and Social Sciences School, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Corporate Law Department (1992-1999).

-  Guest Professor by the “Universidad Argentina de la Empresa”, Institute of Economic Studies and Research (1985- 1990)

-  Adjunct Professor of Business Law I, (appointed by Resolution of the Qualifying Examination Board) of the Law Department of the Business Sciences School, Universidad de Buenos Aires (1983-1990).

-  Professor of Commercial and Civil Companies, Law School, Universidad de Belgrano (1973-1976).

-  Adjunct Professor of Private Law I, Business Sciences School, Universidad de Morón (1970-1975).

IV. ARBITRATION AND EXPERT WITNESS EXPERIENCE

-  Arbitrations under UNCITRAL, BOLSA DE COMERCIO DE BS. AS. and International Chamber of Commerce acting as arbitrator or as counsel to the parties in arbitration. Chairman of the Arbitration Panel under arbitrations procedures conducted under UNCITRAL and (American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina) rules.

-  Expert witness in arbitration procedures under London Court of Arbitration, United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. (CIADI) and Vienna International Arbitral Centre and Argentine legal counsel to US counsel in arbitration proceedings under American Arbitration Association rules

-  Expert witness in litigations conducted in Brazil, Spain and USA.

V. PUBLISHED BOOKS

-  “Pactos de Socios” (“Shareholders Agreements”), Astrea, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mayo 2006.

-  “Sociedades Extranjeras - Análisis del Régimen Legal Argentino” (“Foreign Companies – Analysis of the Argentine Legal System”) - Ed. Abeledo Perrot - Buenos Aires - Argentina 1985.

-  Co-author of “Cuadernos de Derecho Societario”: Vol. I (1973), Vol. II (1974), Vol. III, 1st and 2nd edition (1975) and 3rd edition corrected (1983), and Vol. IV (1976). Ed. Abeledo Perrot Buenos Aires, Argentina.(“Treaty on the Argentine Companies Law”).

-  “Enforcement of Money Judgments Abroad”, author of Chapter I: Argentina, Editor: Philip R. Weems - Matthew Bender – United Status of America 1988 (It is annually printed and updated ).

-  Co-author of “Bank Security and Other Credit Enhancement Methods” - Chapter I: Argentina, Editors: Winnibald E. Moojen/Matthieu Ph. van Sint Truiden, Kluwer Law International – The Netherlands - 1995.

-  Author of the Chapter “La denominación social - El nombre comercial y el social: su distinción” (“The corporate name – The trade name and the corporate name, their differences”), in “Derecho Empresario Actual”, Published by Universidad Austral in the honor of Dr. Raymundo L. Fernández, Ed. Depalma, 1996.

-  “Temas de Derecho Comercial Moderno”, published in the honor of Dr. Fernando Legón, Author of the Chapter “Abusiva utilización de las formas y mecanismos societarios como fundamento para declarar su ilegitimidad” (“Abusive use of the corporate form as a background to declare its illegality”), Depalma, Bs. As., August 1998.

-  Co-author of the Chapter II in the book “Insolvency & Restructuring 2000”, co-authored with Dra. Mariana Sierra, Published by Law Business Research Ltd., Publishing House, UK, September 1999 (it is annually printed and updated ).

-  “Estudios sobre el Directorio de las Sociedades Anónimas” (Essays on the Board of Directors of Corporations), published in the honor of Dr. Carlos S. Odriozola. Author of the Chapter “La Remuneración de los Directores” (“Board of Directors remunerations”), Ad Hoc, Bs. As., November, 1999.

-  Editor of “Doing Business in Argentina” and author of the Chapters “Foreign Investment and Transfer of Technology” y “Intellectual Property Protection”, published by the American Bar Association, Section of International Law and Practice, United States of America, 2000.

-  “Derechos Patrimoniales”, in the honor of Professor Dr. Efraín Hugo Richard. Author of the Chapter “La licitud de los pactos de sindicación de votos: su valoración” (“The illegality of shareholders voting agreements, how to deal with them”), Editor Laura Filippi et al, Ad-Hoc, Buenos Aires, August 2001.

-  Co-author, “Collier International Business Insolvency Guide”, Chapter 13: Argentina Reorganizations and Bankruptcies, LexisNexis, United States of America, August 2002.

-  “Security Interests under Argentine Law”, Co-author Chapter I: Argentina, editors: Ian M. Fletcher and Odd Swarting (co-authored with Alejandro Lubinski and Gonzalo Rovira), published by Kluwer Law International, London, UK, November 2002.

-  “Attachment of Assets”, Vol. 1, author of Chapter Argentina, Editor Lawrence W. Newman, Juris Publishing, 2001.

-  Editor of “Empresa en crisis” (Enterprises in Crisis) and author of the Chapter “Responsabilidad por insolvencia y capital social” (Liability due to insolvency and lack of corporate capital). Published by Astrea, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2005.

-  “Antitrust Year in Review”, Chapter for Argentina with the collaboration of María José Rodríguez Macías and Federico Valcarce, American Bar Association, Section of International Law & Practice. March 2005-2010.

-  “Tratado de la Empresa” (Treaty on the Enterprise), author of the Chapter “La Empresa en la Concepción Moderna de los Contratos” (The Enterprise under the modern notion of contracts), in Vol. II, Editor Ana I. Piaggi, Abeledo Perrot, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010.

-  “Tratado de Conflictos Societarios” (Treaty on Shareholders Disputes”). Author of the Chapters on “Information Rights under the Argentine Corporate Law”, Vol. II, Editor, Diego A.J. Duprat, Abeledo Perrot, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013.

-  Author of the Chapter “Las nulidades de los actos sociales y su proyección en la doctrina de la apariencia jurídica” (“The nullity of corporate acts and its impact under the theory of juridical appearance”). In: “25años de la ley de sociedades comerciales. Necesidad de su reforma” (25 years of the Companies Act (Uruguay). Need to amend it). Book in the honor of Prof. Dr. Siegbert Rippe. Editors Dra. Eva Holz – Dra. Rosa Poziomek, Fundación para el Apoyo a la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, República O. del Uruguay, Montevideo, September, 2014.

-  “The Shareholders Meeting Scope in the Organic Structure of a Corporation” (“El Encuadramiento de la Asamblea de Accionistas en la Estructura Orgánica en torno a su poder, competencia y convocatoria”) in: Ley de Sociedades Comerciales (Uruguay). Estudios a los 25 años de su vigencia. Ricardo Olivera García, editor. Thomson Reuters-La Ley Uruguay, Montevideo, 2015, Tomo II, p. 659.