Pérez Bustamante & Ponce

Mario specializes in free competition, unfair competition and economic regulation. His practice includes administrative and civil litigation and preventive advice on local and regional competition law, ranging from investigations for abuse of market power, notices of economic concentration, state aid, restrictive practices and cartels.

He has successfully worked on some of the most sophisticated transactions and investigations involving the Ecuadorian competition regulator.

Mario combines his professional experience with academic research in competition law, enabling him to approach complex problems with a broad perspective and technical precision.

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Pérez Bustamante & Ponce (2014 - present) Associate, Andrade Veloz Abogados, Quito, Ecuador (2012 - 2013) Director, Competition Law Group, Legal Research Institute, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (2017 - present) Professor of Competition Law, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (2016 - present) Research Assistant to Eleanor M. Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law, U.S.A. (2014)

Spanish, English, Mandarin Chinese

Ecuador Bar Association International Bar Association Member, Academic Committee for the Master’s Degree in Litigation and International Arbitration, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (2016 - present)

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador (Lawyer, cum laude, 2012) The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, England (Diploma in Economics for Competition Law, 2013) New York University School of Law, U.S.A. (Master in Competition, Innovation and Information Law, 2014)