QA LEGAL

Head Partner: María Teresa Quiñones
Senior Associate: Leslie Velásquez

CONTACTS
Energy & TMT: María Teresa Quiñones
Infrastructure and Transport: María Teresa Quiñones

Firm Overview:
Founded in 2018 by María Teresa Quiñones, a recognized expert in energy, infrastructure, public law, and telecommunications, QA Legal has swiftly emerged as a leading boutique firm in Peru. Our team's exceptional expertise enables us to provide legal advice on highly sophisticated matters, offering comprehensive guidance on project design, strategy, and implementation in the energy, telecom, transport, and infrastructure sectors.

At QA Legal, our client-centric approach is at the heart of everything we do. We prioritize adding value to their business by working closely with multidisciplinary teams that integrate and enhance legal, economic, and technical approaches, ensuring high-impact solutions for your complex negotiations, contracts, and disputes.

Our unique strength lies in our highly skilled, specialized, and motivated team. With extensive cross-sectoral experience derived from our expertise in multiple regulated sectors, we employ a transversal approach to address the client´s legal needs effectively. Our mission is to provide creative strategies and solutions to complex issues, all rooted in a solid academic background.

The cases entrusted to QA Legal are highly technical and complex, involving specific aspects of regulations that require a profound understanding of the market, as well as public law, administrative law, infrastructure, projects, and arbitration.

Our Main Areas of Practice include:

Energy:
QA Legal offers valuable advice on structuring new business models in the energy sector (including electricity, renewables, oil and gas), analyzing the legality of complex regulatory changes, and resolving highly technical disputes. We provide comprehensive legal guidance for energy project development and operation, including Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), power purchase agreements, interconnection, and licensing. Our expertise extends to mergers and acquisitions in the electricity sector, comments on draft regulations, disputes related to electric regulations and contracts, and proceedings before key regulatory bodies such as COES, OSINERGMIN, and the Ministry of Energy and Mines.

Arbitration:
We specialize in complex domestic, international, and investment arbitration proceedings. Our team excels as party representatives, arbitrators, and legal experts in both international and domestic arbitrations. We are well-versed in applying the arbitration rules of renowned institutions such as ICC, UNCITRAL, and the country's most representative arbitration centers.

Infrastructure:
In QA Legal we provide advice in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure of transport, sanitation, energy, and telecommunications projects. Our expertise covers a broad range of areas, including BOOT and BOT agreements, concessions, authorizations, permitting, tariffs, open-access, interconnection, and the development and operation of infrastructure projects such as ports, airports, toll roads, railways, transmission lines, and sanitation.

Public Law:
We provide legal opinions on public and administrative law matters, including regulatory compliance, concessions, authorizations, permits, tariffs, sanction proceedings, and contentious administrative litigation. Count on us to navigate the intricacies of public law and deliver effective solutions.

TMT (Telecommunications, Media, and Technology):
Our team deeply understands the telecommunications sector, as we have been involved in the most significant consultancies since the liberalization of the markets in the 90s. Since then, we have been advising both incumbents and new entrants in the telecom industry. We guide clients through telecom regulations, licensing, permits, tariff setting, and other regulatory proceedings. We provide valuable insights on draft legislation and assist in obtaining concessions, authorizations, and licenses for telecommunications services. Furthermore, we offer our expertise in transfers of concessions and spectrum rights assignments.

Languages: English, Spanish.

Memberships:
María Teresa Quiñones is a member of the International Arbitration Court of Amcham Perú. She is also a member of the board of the Peruvian Society of Construction Law and a member of WIP-Peru Advising Committee.