Alexandre Leal Ribeiro Leite

Practice Areas

Power, Infrastructure and Project Finance and Development

Career

Degree in Law from Universidade de São Paulo (USP); Specialist in Power Regulation from Associação Brasileira de Concessionárias de Energia (ABCE); Post- Graduation in finance from Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (INSPER)

Master of Laws (LL.M.) from University of Chicago. He represents private and state-owned companies, power tradings, sponsors, investors, financial institutions in a variety of matters in the Brazilian Power industry, including generation, distributed generation, transmission, distribution, renewables, self-generation and trading.

Alexandre is experienced in developing and structuring projects in the Brazilian Power Sector since its inception (engineering, operation and maintenance contracts and long term PPAs) to its financing and divestment stage. He frequently advises participants in M&As in the Power Industry.

Professional Memberships

​Member of the Brazilian Research Institute of Power Regulation -IBDE (Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos do Direito da Energia) and of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Industry. He was an international associate at a major New York law firm between the years of 2016 and 2017.