ELIZABETH MIREYA FREIDENBERG. LL.B.1967. LLM. 1973. She is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires Law School and has a master in Air Law of the Argentine Air Force Institute of Air and Space Law.

Since her graduation from the School of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, she has concentrated her practice in aviation law as a senior partner in what it is today Freidenberg, Freidenberg & Lifsic Law Firm.

Ms Freidenberg provides comprehensive advice on commercial aviation for Argentina and other Latin American countries mainly in the following areas: the starting up of airline services in Argentina (online – offline), request of traffic rights technical and operative matters before the Argentine Aeronautical Authority (Agencia Nacional de Aviación Civil ANAC), immigration and Customs issues, labor matters pertaining to airline employment, taxation, IATA / BSP, negotiation of codeshare/interline agreements and related matters; negotiation of aircraft lease and purchase agreements. She also works on registration/deregistration at the Argentine Aircraft Register, airport and airline ground handling agreements; defense of airlines and their underwriters in personal injury, hull, cargo and baggage claims.

Ms Freidenberg has been appointed by the Argentine Government to various committees to advice on aviation regulatory matters and aerospace law. In 1969 she was member of the Governmental Commission appointed to update the Argentine Aircraft Register Executive Order governing the Argentine Aeronautical Code in 1986 and 1987.

She worked as a scholar of the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica in the Iberia Law Department in Madrid (1971).

She has lectured aviation law in the University of Buenos Aires Law School.

She is a regular speaker at international conferences on aviation such as the Lloyd’s of London Press Conferences, Embry Riddle University. IATA Legal Symposium; Aviation Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, Copa Legal Symposium; ALA (Asociación Líneas Aéreas de Costa Rica). BAR Association of Montevideo, Uruguay. Sociedad Brasilera de Direito Aeronáutico, Southern Methodist University, USA., Asociacion Latinoamericana de Transportadores Aereos (ALTA).

Since 1998 she was selected as an Argentine Expert in aviation law by Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Aviation Lawyers. She was named as an expert in aeronautic law in the Guide American Lawyer Med, published in the US and The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers..

In 1999 she was appointed as one of the 50 “Leading Woman Entrepreneur of the World” by the Star Group (USA) sponsored by IBM / Lucent Technologies, Dior Fortune Magazine American Airlines and United Airlines.

In 2000 – She was named Mujer del Año, Category business GEMS TELEVISION, Miami, Florida.

IATA has nominated her as arbitrator in several arbitrages started by travel agents.

She is a member of various Air and Space Law Associations, among them, the Argentine Institute of Air and Space Law, Brazilian Institute of Air and Space Law, Uruguayan Center for Studies in Air and Space Law, Iberoamerican Institute of Air Law Commercial Aviation and Aerospace Activities. Swiss Association of Aeronautic Law.

She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Air Law and Commerce (Southern Methodist University School of Law) and international correspondent of the following publications: “Warsaw Convention” (Giemulla / Schmid) – Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers; she was Regional editor for Central and South America in the “Aviation Quarterly”, published by Lloyd’s of London Press, Ltd. (England).

Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Minneapolis MN.

Professor at the Instituto Nacional de Derecho Aeronáutico y Espacial (INDAE) of the Argentine Air Force for the Master in Air Law.