About

Specialising in the generation and distribution of electrical energy in Chile since 1985, Colbún currently has 23 power plants in the country with another plant in Peru. Earning around $1.4bn in annual revenue, Colbún operates through a number of affiliated companies. Following an executive restructure in 2007, the company recruited Rodrigo Pérez to fill the newly created position of legal manager in order to govern all legal matters impacting the company. This year has already proven to be rewarding for Colbún as Pérez helped secure a 12 year $400m liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply deal with ENAP, Chile’s national petroleum company. The agreement enables Colbún to hire shipments from ENAP or third parties to access resources and in a wider sense allows it ‘to have direct access to the international LNG market’, according to Colbún’s CEO, Thomas Keller. Also this year Pérez’s negotiation skills led to a mitigation agreement with Chile’s Superintendence of the Environment, which will suspend the sanction it initiated against Colbún a result of the noise generated by its thermoelectric Santa Maria plant. Before joining Chile’s electricity giant, Pérez was based in the US and served PPL, a multinational energy company, in a position where he was responsible for the management of legal matters in Latin America. He holds two Master’s Degree; one in Humanities from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and another in Philosophy from Los Andes University.