Bustamante Fabara

General Practice

Senior Partner. Josemaria Bustamante has assisted international clients in: Litigation, Multilateral transactions; Cross Border transactions; Mergers and Acquisitions; Project Financing and Management; Public Procurement; Civil, Commercial, Corporate, and Tax Law; International Trade; Franchising, Licensing and Distribution; in the following sectors: Insurance; Banking; Finance; Stock Exchange; Aviation; Communications; Maritime; Energy; Agrochemical industry; Beverage industry; Agroindustry; and, Fishing and Food industry. Pro bono work includes having obtained the first Certificate of Protection ever issued by the Ecuadorian Government, which was granted to Luthier Hugo Chiliquinga; and, the first patent ever conferred to a Luthier in Ecuador; Fundación Zaldumbide-Rosales (promoting musicians worldwide);The Global Foodbanking Network, and several foreigners moving into Ecuador to spend their retirement.

Legal Clerk, Bustamante & Bustamante, 1986; Associate, Bustamante & Bustamante, 1990; Senior Partner, Bustamante & Bustamante, 1996; Equity Partner, Bustamante & Bustamante, 2004. Speaker: Paris Chamber of Commerce, 1993; London Chamber of Commerce, 1993. He has also been a speaker at the London and Paris Chambers of Commerce, the American and Washington State Bar Associations (2002), and the San Francisco Bar Association (2003)

Spanish, English.

He has been a member of the American Bar Association, Washington State Bar Association, San Francisco Bar Association; Quito Bar Association and International Bar Association, American-Ecuadorian Chamber of Commerce, British-Ecuadorian Chamber of Commerce, and French-Ecuadorian Chamber of Commerce. Active member of World Services Group.

Obtained a Licentiate in Juridical Sciences degree in 1997, an Advocate of the Justice Tribunal degree in 2004, and a Jurisprudence Doctorate degree in 2004 from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, based in Quito.

Philosophy, theology, literature, and music.