Alejandro earned his MSc. in Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, United Kingdom, and his LLB. from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). His expertise includes competition law, economic regulation, telecommunications regulation, energy and transportation, tort liability, contracts, and arbitration. He is fluent in English.
Professional experience
Partner at Bullard Falla Ezcurra+ since 2001. Alejandro is a former member of the board of directors of the Supervisory Agency for Investment in Energy and Mining (OSINERGMIN), as well as president of the Commission for the Supervision of Advertising and Repression of Unfair Competition and member of the Free Competition Commission at INDECOPI, the Peruvian competition authority. He also served as Technical Secretary of INDECOPI’s Free Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.
Alejandro is a former member of the advisory board to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. In addition, he served as member of the Board of Directors of the Ciudadanos al Día NGO and of the Ethics Tribunal of the National Society of Radio and TV.
Alejandro has a long track record in commercial and energy arbitration. He has served as an arbitrator in proceedings conducted as an ad hoc arbitration or an institutional arbitration administered by the Lima Chamber of Commerce and the Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).
Academic Activity
Alejandro heads the Master of Intellectual Property and Competition Law program at PUCP. He is also a professor of the Competition Law course given at this university. Moreover, he teaches the Competition Law and Free Market course at Universidad del Pacífico and Universidad de Piura.
He was a visiting professor of the Competition Law course of the Master of Business Law program at Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Acknowledgments
Chambers & Partners
- Rated as a leader in Competition/Antitrust (Band 1) since 2008. Rated as Band 2 and Band 3 in Public Law and TMT (Telecoms, Media, and Technology) since 2015.
- Band 2 in Regulation of Energy and Transports from 2010 to 2016. Band 1 in Dispute Resolution: Most in Demand Arbitrators 2022.
WWL
- Rated ad Thought Leader in Competition 2024.
Leaders League
- Highly Recommended Arbitrators 2022, 2023 and 2024.
- Leading Lawyer in Competition & Antitrust since 2019.
Legal 500
- Ranked as Leading Lawyer in Competency and Regulation, and Public Law and Regulation in the 2019 Ranking.
- Leading Individual in the category of Competition and Antitrust 2021.
Best Lawyers
- Recognized in the categories of Competition / Antitrust Law / Antitrust Law in 2022 Best Lawyers.
Publications
Alejandro is a columnist for the newspaper El Comercio.
Among his various publications are:
- Alejandro Falla, Eduardo Quintana and Lucía Villarán. Cartels Law and Practice in Perú. En: Chambers & Partners, (2020 and 2021).
- Alejandro Falla, Eduardo Quintana, Lucía Villarán and Andrea Cadenas. Merger Control Law and Practice in Peru. En: Chambers & Partners, (2020 and 2021).
- Co-author. Perú. En International Competition Litigation: A Multi-jurisdictional Handbook. Editores: Gordon Blanke y Renato Nazzini, (2012).
- Alejandro Falla. Comentarios a la Ley Peruana de Arbitraje. Comentario del artículo 69, Instituto Peruano de Arbitraje, (2011).
- Alejandro Falla. ¿Zanahoria o garrote: De qué depende?: De los estilos de Enforcement de la Regulación. Artículo contenido en Sobre la Ley del Procedimiento Administrativo General. Libro homenaje a José Alberto Bustamante Belaunde. Apuntes de Derecho y Economía. Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, (2009).
- Alejandro Falla. Actos Contrarios a la Libre Concurrencia”, coautor. Artículo contenido en El Derecho de la Competencia Desleal. Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, november, (2007).