ECIJA GPA

Partner

Partner. Corporate lawyer with practice in international M&A, project finance, syndicated loan transactions, public procurement, infrastructure. Authorized experience in Oil & Gas, energy and natural resources, competition law and policy implementation. Practice in local and international arbitration. Worked as counsel and advisor to multinationals as well as the Ecuadorian State.

Blanca Gómez de la Torre

Head of Area

Byron Sotomayor

Partner. Provides legal advices in different areas of the law, including labor, commerce, tax, administrative, civil and procedural law to several people and companies from public and private sectors. He is a specialist in the analysis and preparation of strategies within trials of all kinds, and in the preparation and challenge of evidence in judicial defense.

Edgar Méndez

His specialty is in the corporate, labor and taxes, having participated in several complex processes in the aforementioned fields, both in advisory and litigation in these areas.

Felipe González

Partner

Francisco Alarcón

Partner at GPA since 1998. Partner at ECIJA - GPA since its merger in 2020. Specialized in foreign investments, contracts, local registering and consulting to foreign companies doing business in Ecuador as well as in Contract executions with Government and state owned institutions, specially with Petroecuador, Ministry of Energy and State owned Telecommunications company as well as with the private sector. Participation in international round bids for Oil Blocks and assistance in registration of foreign companies in Ecuador (set up branches). Manages corporate law, oil and gas law, insurance law, labor law, international arbitration and mediation, as well as international negotiations. His doctor’s thesis degree was based on Ecuador’s Participation Contract for hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation. He has been and is currently Legal representative/Agent and attorney in fact and law consultant for several foreign companies in the oil production, oil services, purchase of Oriente Crude and Napo oil, insurance and telecommunications sector. Contracts administration and negotiations are of his best interest, as well as representing foreign companies doing business in Ecuador. Pipeline deformation, maintenance and in-line inspections contracts vast experience. Crude Oil trading in Ecuador contracts executions and administration for more than a decade.

Ingrid Rodríguez

Partner

Juan Carlos Montenegro

PartnerHead Of Department

Juan Fernando Valdivieso

Partner

Michael Veintimilla

Partner. Specialist corporate law, M&A, competition law, commercial law.

Paola Robalino

Partner. Practice are leader for tax

Santiago Vega

Santiago Vega, partner of ECIJA GPA in Ecuador is a specialist in tax law and corporate / M&A and has more than 12 years of experience in advising national and international companies in Tax, Corporate, Estate Planning and Family Business matters. He is also Professor at the Faculty of Legal Sciences of the University of Azuay and member, advisor to the board of directors and attorney of important companies and business groups in the country. Master in Taxation and International Taxation, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, ICADE Business School, Madrid Spain, Diploma in Business Administration for Lawyers, INCAE Business School, Costa Rica, Lawyer of the Courts of Justice of the Republic of Ecuador, Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca Ecuador and Commercial Engineer, Universidad del Pacifico, Cuenca Ecuador. Santiago speaks Spanish, English and German.