Byron Sotomayor > ECIJA GPA > Quito, Ecuador > Lawyer Profile
ECIJA GPA Offices
AV. 12 DE OCTUBRE Y LINCOLN
OFICINA 1005
QUITO
Ecuador
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Byron Sotomayor
Work Department
Labour, Dispute Resolution: Litigation and Arbitration
Position
Partner
Career
Byron has more than 9 years of experience as legal advisor for business groups in the area of corporate, civil, labor, commercial and tax law. He also has experience in legal sponsorship and judicial representation in civil, labor, commercial and administrative processes, currently being a judicial attorney for several companies.
He is an expert in areas of negotiation and conflict resolution.
He is an expert in the formation of legal strategies to face judicial processes in different matters.
Languages
English and Spanish.
Education
He is a lawyer from the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil and has attended multiple courses and seminars as a participant, on the training of conciliators and legal arguments, among others.
Lawyer Rankings
Ecuador > Labour and employment
ECIJA GPA divides its practice between contentious and non-contentious matters, with the team active in a variety of collective conflicts involving clients in the hydrocarbon, hospitality, pharmaceutical, environmental and automotive industries. Byron Sotomayor steers these efforts alongside Francisco Dávalos, who combine considerable experience in individual and collective labour disputes.
Ecuador > Dispute resolution
ECIJA GPA‘s disputes group, which has ‘excellent knowledge and experience in disputes and the applicable laws’, continues to build the arbitration and mediation arm of its practice, fielding experts in international commercial and investment arbitration. The team, which ‘generates confidence‘, works on cases which run the gamut of industries from construction and telecoms to oil and gas. Administrative litigation is a particular area of expertise, in which Blanca Gomez De La Torre is an influential team member; she leads the department alongside Juan Carlos Montenegro and Byron Sotomayor.