Alejandro Pérez

Banking, Project Finance, Corporate Finance, Securities Law, Energy, Infraestructure

Member of World Association for Public-Private Partnerships (WAPPP)

ImPPPact Ambassador

Ecuador Bar

• “The Public Competition Enforcement Review”, Chapter Ecuador. 7th Edition, Law Business Research, 2015.

• “International Public Procurement”, Chapter Ecuador, West Thomson Reuters, 2016.

• Benchmarking Public-Private Partnerships Procurement. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank. 2016-2017.

• Getting the Deal Through: “Public-Private Partnerships 2017”, Law Business Research Ltd.

• Getting the Deal Through: “Private Banking & Wealth Management”, Chapter Ecuador. Law Business Research, 2017

• “Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Latin America, 2nd Edition”, Chapter Ecuador. Juris Publishing, Inc. 2018

• “Fundamental Principals in PPP Laws: A Review of Latin America and the Caribbean”. Inter-American Development Bank. 2019

• “Project Finance 2020: A practical cross-border insight into project finance”. Ninth Edition. Global Legal Group. 2020

• “Benchmarking 2020 Infraestructure Development”, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 2020

• “Las Asociaciones Público-Privadas como alternativa para reducir la brecha de infraestructura en Latinoamérica”, Revista Gestión Pública y Control, Gaceta Jurídica, Perú. 2021

• “Investing in Ecuador”, Chambers & Partners. 2022

• “Trends and Developments: Energy” Chambers & Partners. 2023

• "FIDIC Contracts in the Americas: A Practical Guide to Application”, 2023

• “Trends and Developments: ESG” Chambers & Partners. 2023

• “Benchmarking Infrastructure Development Report”, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, 2024

• “The Elements Guide, Geothermal”, BBA/FJELDCO, 2025

• "Banking Overview", Chambers & Partners, 2026

Universidad de las Américas

Master in Finance, with emphasis in Securities and Banking, September 2020

Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales

Postdegree in Public Management, May 2017

Universidad de las Américas

Attorney, March 2015

Alejandro Pérez Arellano, partner at the law firm Flor Bustamante Pizarro & Hurtado (FBPH). He has experience in financing transactions totaling more than USD 2 billion, provided by multilateral and international public organizations, in both sovereign-guaranteed and unsecured financing granted to the Republic of Ecuador, including: financing for the expansion of the national power grid, in a transaction valued at USD 100 million; financing for the construction of the expansion of the water supply system for the city of Quito, in a transaction valued at USD 70 million.

As well as experience in financing transactions provided by private international financial institutions to Ecuadorian private companies, including: financing provided to the concessionaire of Guayaquil’s drinking water and sewer service in a transaction valued at USD 70 million; financing provided to the concessionaire of the Port of Posorja—the first port delegated under a public-private partnership (PPP) model—in a transaction valued at more than USD 300 million; financing provided to the concessionaire of the Port of Bolívar—the second port delegated under a PPP model—in a transaction valued at more than USD 175 million; financing provided to LATAM Airlines for debt restructuring totaling more than USD 2.5 billion; financing provided to Quiport by a syndicate of local banks in the amount of USD 200 million; financing provided to Banco del Pacífico by JP Morgan in a transaction exceeding USD 500 million; syndicated financing provided to the largest sports retail company (Todoplay) in a transaction valued at more than $230 million; a loan granted to the country’s largest private university in the amount of $18 million.

He has served as a consultant for USAID, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the IDB and others.

Universidad de las Américas

Bachelors