Javier Contreras

Javier Contreras is Director Infraestructura at Ameris Capital, where the firm’s own team page lists him as “Director Infraestructura.” His LinkedIn profile describes him as “Managing Partner Infrastructure at Ameris” and a board member at GNL Mejillones, with Ameris experience spanning 2009 to the present.

Before leading Ameris’s infrastructure activity, Contreras was Partner - Director Corporate Finance at Ameris Capital from 2009 to 2019. His LinkedIn profile says he has 28 years of corporate-finance experience across Santiago, New York, and Madrid, with specialties in M&A, project finance, and debt capital markets.

GRI Institute’s infrastructure speaker profile describes Contreras as a partner and director of infrastructure at Ameris Capital, active in project finance, valuations, advisory, and mergers and acquisitions. The same profile says he has more than 24 years of Chilean investment-banking experience and previously led Santander Investment’s investment-banking business during a period marked by concessions, tender offers, and the resurgence of IPOs in Chile.

Contreras studied Civil Engineering Finance at Universidad de Chile from 1984 to 1989, according to his LinkedIn profile.

• Contreras’s infrastructure work at Ameris centers on real assets, project finance, and institutional infrastructure investments rather than seed-stage technology startups.
• Ameris describes itself as focused on alternative assets in Chile, including real estate, debt, private equity, infrastructure, secondaries, and impact investing.
• In the GNL Mejillones deal, Contreras framed the investment thesis as exposure to energy transition through contracted real assets: “La inversión en GNL Mejillones permite tener exposición a la transición energética hacia fuentes de energía más limpias, a través de activos reales y con contratos de largo plazo.”
• In Diario Financiero, Contreras said Ameris was evaluating infrastructure opportunities “tanto en segmentos tradicionales como la infraestructura vial como en segmentos no tradicionales.”
• Contreras highlighted infrastructure’s appeal for institutional investors because of its long time horizons and risk profile, even though it may not offer the same return levels as real-estate or private-debt funds.