Robalino

Administrative, Tax, Labor, Civil and Economic Criminal Law, Litigation and Enforcement Processes.

Senior Associate

Before joining FERRERE he garnered a wide range of experience in the public and private sectors. In the private sector he was a member of two prestigious law firms in the city of Guayaquil. In the public sector, he was senior government attorney with the Revenue Service, where he handled the most relevant tax disputes and criminal tax proceedings, as well as in enforcement procedures.  Later he was national legal chief for the criminal area of the same institution, leading prosecutions in criminal proceedings nationwide, advising on the creation of tax regulations to prevent tax fraud, and acting as enforcer of the Cooperation Agreement between the Revenue Service and the Attorney General’s Office for prevention of economic crimes and tax fraud.

He was also regional director of Labor and Public Service and, as such, the maximum authority on labor matters in the provinces of Guayas, Los Ríos, Santa Elena, Bolívar and Galápagos, as well as president of the Superior Court of Conciliation and Arbitration in collective conflicts. He held the post of general coordinator of the Legal Office of the Ministry of Labor, where he was in charge of legal representation of the Ministry, response to queries, decisions on municipal appeals, and drafting of agreements and work and civil service rules.

He was also national director of Human Rights at the Attorney General’s Office.

He has been a speaker and given courses on Tax Fraud Prevention at national level. He is currently professor of Contentious Tax Law and Administrative Procedural Law in the Master’s Program in Procedural Law at Universidad ECOTEC of Guayaquil (Ecuador).

English; Spanish; French

Attorney, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil (Ecuador).

Master’s in Law, Economics and Management, with mention in Taxes, Université d’Aix-Marseille Paul Cézanne (France).

Diploma in Higher University Studies in Finance and Criminal Law, Centre d’Etudes des Techniques Financières et d’Ingénierie (CETFI) at the School of Applied Economics and School of Law (France).