Rodrigo Jijón-Letort, Javier Robalino-Orellana

Pérez Bustamante & Ponce Abogados

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Pérez, Bustamante & Ponce resulted from the merger, effective in 2001, of two law firms providing complete services and having complementary philosophies: Pérez Bustamante y Pérez (which dates back to 1916 when it began to act professionally) and Fabián Ponce O & Asociados (founded in 1959).

Furthermore, our office combines the experience and prestige of several of the most reputed lawyers in Ecuador with the credit provided by young attorneys. Thus, our members have accumulated many years of experience in connection with the most important litigation and transactions carried out in and related to the Ecuadorean legal market, and have shared their knowledge and professional practice as university chairs and in seminars and lectures. Several members of Pérez, Bustamante & Ponce are or have been lecturers, experts, arbitrators or secretaries in arbitration tribunals.

Pérez, Bustamante & Ponce firmly believes in high-quality legal services, the importance of our clients’ trust and confidence, the necessity of technological developments, and the practice of law with emphasis on internationalisation. Against this background, we belong to several international organisations: Lex Mundi, Club de Abogados and Interlaw.

The firm has recently participated in cases such as: an arbitration proceeding by MachalaPower Cia Ltda against the government of Ecuador before ICSID; an UNCITRAL proceeding by a multinational oil firm against the Republic of Ecuador; an ICSID arbitration process by a multinational US oil firm, based in the Midwest, on the basis of breach of contract and violation of the US-Ecuador BIT; and an ICSID arbitration case, filed on behalf a multinational oil firm against the Republic of Ecuador and the state-owned company Petroecuador.