Bustamante Fabara

Carla Cepeda is part of the firm’s dispute resolution, highly regulated sectors, and public law departments. Her work includes advising, consulting, and representing clients in administrative disputes, civil, construction, telecommunications, energy, commercial and corporate disputes. Carla has experience in structuring and protecting foreign investments, administrative claims, and litigation. Carla is a professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in the subjects: Oral Advocacy and Property Law; she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ecuadorian Very Young Arbitration Practitioners- ECUVYAP group, she is the secretary of the Ecuadorian Chapter of the Spanish Ibero-American Arbitration Club and was an Arbitrator Intelligence’s ambassador for Latin America.

Hugo García Larriva boasts over 15 years of distinguished experience in arbitration, litigation, public law, concessions, and telecommunications. Currently, he leads the arbitration practice and co-leads the litigation, public procurement-concessions, telecommunications, and energy and natural resources practices at BUSTAMANTE FABARA. In the realm of litigation and arbitration, Hugo represents clients in complex cases before Ecuadorian courts, in commercial, administrative, and constitutional matters. Additionally, he has developed a stellar reputation as counsel in both domestic and international arbitrations, participating in arbitral tribunals constituted under various rules, including ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, and CIETAC, addressing both commercial and investment disputes. Hugo also actively serves as an arbitrator in proceedings under different rules. In the field of public procurement and concessions, Hugo provides his considerable expertise and guidance to clients in highly regulated industries such as construction, energy, telecommunications, and infrastructure development. His work includes consultancy for the structuring of tenders, negotiation, and drafting of public contracts, concessions, and public-private partnership projects. Furthermore, he advises on the daily implementation and resolution of administrative disputes related to these projects. Hugo complements his professional practice with valuable academic experience as a professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito and the Universidad de Las Américas, teaching both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.