{"id":1651,"date":"2026-05-01T11:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afra.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:35:46","slug":"panama-expansion-marco-app-panamericana-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/banca-y-finanzas\/expansion-marco-app-panama-rehabilitacion-panamericana\/","title":{"rendered":"The Advance of PPPs in Panama: AFRA Advises on the Rehabilitation of the Western Pan-American Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1651\" class=\"elementor elementor-1651\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-689b168 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"689b168\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da00850 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"da00850\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The expansion of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) framework in Panama marks a sophisticated shift in the region's infrastructure and financing landscape.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>AFRA<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we are proud to have played a fundamental role in this evolution. Our partners, <\/span><b>Luis H. Moreno IV<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> y <\/span><b>Annette B\u00e1rcenas O.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, along with the associate <\/span><b>Eduardo De La Espriella Kramer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, successfully advised <\/span><b>Isthmus Highways PPP Consortium<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014composed of Grupo ESTRELLA, Promotora y Desarrolladora Mexicana S.A. de C.V., and GRUPO HYCSA\u2014 during the complex stages of prequalification, bidding, and award.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This process reached a definitive milestone with the official signing of the contract for the <\/span><b>Second APP Project in Panama<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Rehabilitation, Improvement, and Maintenance of the Western Pan-American Highway.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As this project advances into the execution and financing phases, our team remains committed to providing the specialized legal architecture necessary to bring this vital artery of Panamanian commerce to completion.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about our experience in structuring projects of<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/areas\/public-procurement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Procurement<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AFRA firm played a key role in the award of the second Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project in Panama: the rehabilitation of the Western Pan-American Highway.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[92,85,112,84,93,111],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banca-y-finanzas","tag-afra-legal","tag-app","tag-carretera-panamericana","tag-infraestructura","tag-panama-law","tag-project-finance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afra.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"well played","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}