Pe, Perry L.

Perry L. Pe (Senior Partner), is a member of the Executive Board and head of the Project Development & Finance group.

Perry leads various projects in the fields of energy, infrastructure, mining, oil and gas exploration, telecommunications, government privatization, and other private-public partnership (PPP) or build-operate-transfer (BOT) transactions. His work ranges from acting as counsel to the project proponents, to the project contractors, and to that of the project lenders, such as the commercial banks, the multilateral or bilateral lending institutions and the export credit agencies.

Foremost among those cases that Perry has handled were (a) the government service contract given to the consortium for the oil and gas exploration of an oilfield off Northwest Palawan; (b) the purchase by the Philippine government banks of the securitized assets of the rail transit company; (c) the sale of the Philippine government’s shareholdings in the country’s biggest oil refinery and distribution company; (d) the privatization of the country’s largest geothermal plant company; and (e) the successful initial public offering and listing of one of Southeast Asia’s largest low-cost carriers.

Perry has also assisted various institutions in developmental work. He acted as a legal consultant to the Asian Development Bank based in Manila. He acted as a legal consultant to the World Bank team that drafted the rules and regulations for the commercialization of the former United States naval base in Subic Bay. He also assisted the Privatization Council on the privatization of several water districts in the Philippines.

Perry received his undergraduate degrees in History and Political Science in De La Salle University in 1981. He received his bachelor of laws from the Ateneo de Manila in 1985, and master of laws in Columbia University Law School in 1991. He joined the firm in 1985 and started his practice in 1986.