About

Adviel Centeno is currently general counsel and secretary at AES Panama and AES Changuilnola, the most important electricity generators in Panama, operating six plants in different areas of the country. As secretary of the board of directors, Centeno is integral to the legal proceedings at Gas Natural Atlantico – a project of AES Corporation – while they are developing and constructing the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) based combined cycle energy generation facility in Panama in conjunction with a LNG Terminal and tank. As the head of the legal department and general counsel for the operations in Panama he is responsible for the ethics and compliance department and the execution and compliance of the corporate, commercial, regulatory and environmental legal and contractual commitments, responsibilities and obligations. His other work entails providing strategic legal support to the finance, commercial, operations and supply chain areas of the business where he coordinates and supervises judicial matters handled by external counsel. Prior to this role he was a senior associate at Mossack Fonseca, an international legal and trust service provider with 44 offices worldwide. He is a leading expert in a number of projects that entailed corporate and commercial law, telecommunication and regulatory law, environmental law and offshore structures.