Noboa, Peña & Torres, Abogados

Corporate & Commercial Arbitration Labour & Employment

Founding partner

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

Marcelo focuses his practice on M&A, commercial and corporate, arbitration, and labour and employment law, all of which he intensively practices by advising national and multinational corporations. Besides his profuse law practice, he currently sits with prominent businesspeople on several top-ranked private companies' boards of directors where he provides legal orientation to the important business matters brought to the decision table.

comprehensive past experience includes the academic, as guest professor in labour law, arbitration law and business law at the two most prominent universities in Guayaquil. In the public sector he also served as adviser to the City Mayor, the Ministry of Agriculture and member of the National Securities Council.

Spanish, English.

Ecuadorian Bar Association. Member of the panel of arbitrators and President of the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the Chamber of Commerce of Guayaquil. Member of the panel of arbitrators of the Inter American Commercial Arbitration Commission (IACAC-ICDR).

Law Degree from the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil. Master of Laws from the University of Miami.