Blanca Gómez de la Torre > ECIJA GPA > Quito, Ecuador > Lawyer Profile

Blanca Gómez de la Torre

T. +593 2986528 bgomezdelatorre@ecija.com View profile

Work Department

Partner of  Dispute Resolution: litigation and arbitration

Position

Partner

Career

Blanca has over 20 years of experience in civil, commercial, administrative and national and international arbitration litigation. Her professional practice has also been linked to the areas of national and international public law, competition, finance, banking and aviation.

Blanca has acted as counsel for parties in investment and commercial arbitrations under ICSID, UNCITRAL and ICC rules, among others.
She is a member of the list of arbitrators of the Quito Chamber of Commerce and the Lima Chamber of Commerce. He has been arbitrator of the ICDR of the American Arbitration Association and in the Chamber of Commerce of Quito.

She is a professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Commercial Arbitration at the University of San Francisco de Quito.

Languages

English and Spanish

Memberships

Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb.), the Spanish Club of Arbitration (CEA) and the Latin American International Arbitration (LIA). She is a founding member of WIP Ecuador.

Education

She has a doctorate in Jurisprudence from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, a higher specialist in procedural law from the Simón Bolívar Andean University and a master’s degree in international commercial law from the International University of La Rioja in Spain.