Banking & Finance Tax Corporate & Commercial

Patricio Peña is a founding partner of the firm and has more than 25 years of experience in the legal practice in Ecuador.

Patricio focuses his practice in the areas of corporate and commercial law, M&A, capital markets and Banking and Finance. He has ample experience advising national and international companies from various industrial sectors, private equity funds and financial institutions with important multi-jurisdictional transactions.

Patricio has been in charge of important positions in both private and public sectors, related with commercial matters. In that sense, he was in charge of several public institutions, such as the Undersecretary of Revenues (equivalent to the IRS at this time), the Modernization of the State Secretary, and Judge of the Constitutional Guarantees Tribunal (equivalent to the Constitutional Court at this time). He was the former Executive Director and President of the Quito Stock Exchange and has served on several Boards of Directors.

Patricio has multiple recognitions for his practice, in that sense he was honored by the National Government with the National Order of Merit in the grade of Grand Officer, he was also recognized by the Superintendence of Companies, by the Chamber of Industrialists of Pichincha, and by the Quito Bar Association.

Ecuadorian Bar Association. Member of the Board of Directors of Industries Chambers, Chief of the legal commission. Member of the Board of Directors of the Ecuadorian American Chamber of Commerce in Quito, President of the Tax Policy Committee. Founding member and President of the Ecuadorian Institute of Corporate Governance. President of the Board of Directors of the Junior Achievement Ecuador Foundation. Part of the Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable.

Founding partner

Law Degree at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. Diploma on Senior Business Management at Business Development Institute (IDE). Various seminars in the United States, Costa Rica, Colombia, Paraguay, Brazil, Perú, Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Ecuador, among which we highlight "Evolving Stratuctures of Securities Market" at McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University.