REGIONAL ELECTRICAL ENERGY SYSTEM AS A POWER SOURCE FOR MINING PROJECTS

• Jurisdiction: Derecho Internacional

Mining and Oil and Gas Law, Development, and Investment - Book 2
(Apr 2007)
CHAPTER 12C
REGIONAL ELECTRICAL ENERGY SYSTEM AS A POWER SOURCE FOR MINING PROJECTS
María Teresa Quiñones
Rodrigo, Elias & Medrano Abogados
Lima, Peru

MARÍA TERESA QUIÑONES

Ms. Quiñones is a Partner in the Lima, Peru law firm of Rodrigo, Elias & Medrano. A major part of her work focuses on advising electricity and telecommunications companies, as well as chief corporate clients and the Economic Operation Committee of the National Interconnected Electric System, on the legal and regulatory aspects of electricity and telecommunication activities. She is currently the chairman of Instituto de Derecho de los Servicios Públicos, an association which gathers lawyers within this area of expertise.

She earned a Bachelor of Law (1990) and Degree in Law (1992) from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and a Master of Law (1991) from Harvard University.

She teaches the Private Investment and Concessions Course of the Master of Business Law Program at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. She has lectured and taught the Infrastructure and Public Services Concessions Course of the Professional Training Program in Telecommunications organized by Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (1998-2002). She has also served as arbitrator of the OSIPTEL Arbitration Center. Moreover, she has been a professor of Tax Law in the Master of Real Estate and Construction Companies Management Program (1995-96), and of the Commercial Integration Seminar at the Law School of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (1997-99).

She was appointed to the Electric Committee and the Electric Legal Sub-Committee of Sociedad Nacional de Minería, Petróleo y Energía, the AmCham Telecommunications Committee, and the "B" Consultative Committee on Administrative Law of the Lima Bar Association (2000). She is also a former member of the Board of Directors of Perú Petro S.A. (2001). Other positions held by Ms. Quiñones include those of director of Sociedad de Beneficencia de Lima Metropolitana (2000-01), member of the Review Committee of the Code of Commerce (1998-99), and speaker in the Stock Market Program on Financial Law in the Bond and Eurobond Market (1995-97).

Memberships include: Lima Bar Association; Interlaw Communications Group; Asociación Jurídica Themis; Harvard Club del Perú; Electric Committee and Legal Electric Sub-Committee of the National Society of...