Profile

Gastón Bilder currently works as Senior Legal Counsel for Alstom Power Systems, providing legal and commercial advise on the tendering and turnkey sale of power plants in Ibero-American markets.

From 2002 and until March 2008, Gaston Bilder acted as General Counsel and Head of Community Relationships for Empresa Petrolera Chaco S.A. In his role as leader of the Legal Department, besides managing the legal department and providing advise to numerous internal clients on a diverse range of legal issues, he headed - as part of a team that renegotiated 23 hydrocarbons concession contracts- the negotiation with the Bolivian Government of the legal terms and conditions for the new Operations Contracts.

During his tenure as General Counsel in Bolivia, he overcame several legal crises; conceived and implemented a real time risk management and regulatory compliance system to oversee all the activities of the company, and various knowledge management, communications, costs reduction and contract excellence initiatives.

Mr. Bilder has extensive knowledge of Latin America business environment and has acted as Secretary and Director for companies and non-profit entities operating in diverse industries in Latin America. Throughout his career he has worked in projects in different Latin American countries for multinational companies in high volume transactional practices; providing effective business counseling on energy law, cross-border M&As, international transactions, project finance, corporate governance, litigation and in the design of inclusive business strategies and implementation of entrepreneurship projects for the economic development of indigenous communities.

Mr. Bilder graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina as Attorney in 1993 and as Certified Translator in 1995. He has a MA degree on Oil and Gas Law from the University of Buenos Aires, and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA, where he specialized in International Business (Finance) and International Commercial Law.

Specialties:

Corporate management, legal services management, directorship, contracts management, risk and compliance, corporate and general business law, legal and strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, deal structuring, international transactions, corporate governance, procurement contracts, energy law, antitrust, negotiation, community relations, Corporate Social Responsibility, start-ups, inclusive business, Latin America.

Native Spanish speaker. Fluent in English, Portuguese and French. Working knowledge of Russian