Dr. Alejandro Piera

Founded in 2007, GHP Abogados (GHP) is a full service law firm with experience in providing sophisticated and complex legal services for national and international clients operating in Paraguay and abroad.

Despite its relatively recent formation, thanks to its renowned clientele, GHP has quickly become one of the main corporate law firms in the market. With the support of a select group of collaborating firms and their international networks, GHP is able to provide advice in any jurisdiction at very competitive costs. This has enabled GHP to develop a renowned cross-border legal practice.

what sets us apart

We are committed to innovating to provide creative, simple and practical legal advice tailored to the requirements of our clients. For this, we focus every day on better understanding their specific needs, listening to them, knowing the sector in which they carry out their activities, and thus being part of their goals and objectives.

This assiduous interaction allows us to learn from our clients. Our challenge is to improve ourselves and persevere every day to strengthen its growth and strategic development. Based on an innovative vision, teamwork, constant training and permanent interaction with our clients, GHP seeks to provide customized solutions that provide added value and reduce the risks and contingencies of all its undertakings.

In search of excellence

We are not worried about the competition. We take on the challenge as an impetus to move forward. In the pursuit of excellence, our obsession is the continuous learning and training of the entire team to be better professionals and people. We want to share our knowledge to provide added value. For each of our members, the law is a passion and we are convinced that through its exercise we can create a fairer and more equal society. Through national and international publications, teaching and active participation as speakers in numerous legal forums, both locally and abroad, GHP actively contributes to the development of the social sciences.

Solid commitment to economic and social development

Despite the profound economic transformation that Paraguay is undergoing, GHP does not forget that it is still a developing country with pressing challenges and needs.

Committed to the economic and social development of the country, we dedicate our time to social impact projects, thus sharing our knowledge with those most in need. In this sense, GHP advises numerous non-profit organizations. Similarly, for several years GHP has actively participated in the Pro-Bono Alliance led by the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Law and Political Economy of the Catholic University (CIDSEP/UC).

What do we do?

Led by three partners and a select group of associates and paralegal assistants, GHP provides comprehensive corporate legal services to numerous national and foreign companies. In numerous projects of international and national prominence, several of our lawyers have served as consultants for specialized agencies of United Nations. Nations, international organizations and the Superior National Government, even having the opportunity to work abroad. Some of our members have held leadership roles in the most recognized trade associations.

GHP provides services in matters related to investments, mergers and acquisitions, alliances, maquila, corporate and labor law, international negotiations, cross-border practice, joint ventures, sports law, administrative law, banking and financial law, intellectual property, capital markets, insurance. and reinsurance, agribusiness, regulatory compliance and corporate ethics, aeronautical and maritime law, environmental law, telecommunications, information technology, tax and customs law, real estate law, agency contracts, representation and distribution, energy law, hydrocarbons and mining. In addition, GHP has a solid and recognized professional practice in conflict resolution through ordinary mechanisms, such as administrative summaries,

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Alejandro is a founding partner of GHP Abogados. His practice areas include matters related to arbitration, transportation law (aeronautical & maritime), international trade, insurance, foreign investment, international law, environment, information technology, telecommunications, and sports law. Currently, due to his extensive multi-jurisdictional experience, in cooperation with two prestigious international law firms, Alejandro coordinates the external legal services requirements of a major international organization in 43 jurisdictions in the Americas. Likewise, Alejandro regularly assists several international clients in the most varied regulatory matters in numerous jurisdictions in Latin America.  

As part of his arbitration practice, Alejandro regularly serves as an arbitrator for the Shanghai International Arbitration Center, the Bucharest Ilfov Commercial Arbitration Center (CAIB) and the Arbitration and Mediation Center of Paraguay (CAMP). Alejandro holds the presidency of the Paraguayan Association of Computer and Technological Law (APADIT), is Director of the Commercial Law Section of the Legal Magazine La Ley, is a member of the Editorial Board of the Annals of Air & Space Law and is a guest columnist for the 5 Days diary ( www.5dias.com.py/search/piera) . From 2017 to 2021 he held the position of Vice President of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee.
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In addition, Alejandro has been an international consultant for the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Similarly, Alejandro has advised various international governments on numerous occasions. 
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has deep international experience. For several years, Alejandro served as Permanent Advisor to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Government Diplomatic Mission to the ICAO Council in Montreal, Canada. Alexander was appointed Rapporteurof ICAO in the process of modifying the Tokyo Convention of 1963, an initiative that culminated in the adoption of the Montreal Protocol of 2014. Alejandro was also elected Vice President of the ICAO Legal Committee. In the past, Alejandro served as Senior Legal Advisor to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). 
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Alejandro taught for many years at the National University of Asunción. Currently, Alejandro is an external instructor at the IATA Training and Development Center (IATA Training) and guest professor at the postgraduate courses in transportation law at the University of Buenos Aires, the Argentine Catholic University and the Institute of Aeronautical Law. and Space of the Argentine Air Force (INDAE). Alejandro has published numerous articles and books. In 2015, Eleven International Publishing released its book Greenhouse Gases from International Aviation: Legal and Policy Issues. 

Alejandro is frequently invited to speak at international forums on international law issues. Alejandro has obtained a doctorate in law (PhD) and a master's degree (LLM) from McGill University (Montreal, Canada), as well as a law degree from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Asunción. In 2016, the Association des Professeures et Professeurs de Droit du Québéc awarded him the prize for the best doctoral thesis of 2015. Alejandro is a former fellow of AFS International and the Swedish International Development Agency .

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