Banking & Finance
Latin America Guide 2025 : Ecuador
Band 2
Contact number
+593 2 323 0375About
Provided by Lexvalor Abogados
Financial Law. - The professional team is specialized in providing advice and guidance on financial structure planning of various sorts to domestic and international financial and insurance institutions, multilateral credit agencies, auxiliary financial entities, and securities market entities.
The team has extensive experience in structuring and carrying out multilateral credit operations, as well as syndicated loan operations to finance major projects in Ecuador, representing multilateral lending institutions, domestic and international financial institutions and project promoters.
Capital Market. -The firm has a strong presence in the capital market area. The members have participated in structuring capital market transactions for domestic and international investors, including corporate bond issues, commercial paper and securities issues, securities registration, securitisations, and other financial products for company financing.
Fiduciary Law. - In Ecuador, the forming of a commercial trust is the most efficient mechanism to ensure compliance with obligations between lender and borrower. Large lenders, both international and domestic, regard the trust as a sine qua non requirement for the conferment of large loans. The firm represents the largest and most important trust funds in Ecuador, Lexvalor is responsible for the preparation of all legal documents related to the granting of the most important and largest loans for the completion of works of national interest.
Chambers Review
Lexvalor Abogados is a full-service firm with a significant banking and finance offering in Ecuador. The legal team is experienced in advising lenders and corporate borrowers on bilateral and syndicated credit facilities to finance projects and corporate acquisitions. The law firm boasts further expertise in capital markets, with notable activity advising on bond issuances. Lexvalor Abogados advises a diverse client base including multinational corporations, commercial banks and asset managers.
Work Highlights
- Levalor Abogados advised Su Casa De Valores Sucaval, a brokerage firm, on corporate bond issues, with a wide range of regulatory and capital markets matters related to the structuring of three issuances.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Lexvalor Abogados has a very committed team that is passionate about its work. Its lawyers are professional, practical and knowledgeable, and they provide quick responses with immediate solutions."
"Lexvalor Abogados has a very committed team that is passionate about its work. Its lawyers are professional, practical and knowledgeable, and they provide quick responses with immediate solutions."
Notable Practitioners
Well-regarded partner and co-head of the department Daniela Irigoyen receives praise from clients for her advice on an array of banking and finance transactions in Ecuador including security packages and trust structures.
"Daniela Irigoyen is a very professional lawyer with a lot of experience and knowledge in banking and finance matters. She finds solutions to problems immediately."
Lexvalor's founding partner and co-head of department Margoth Chiriboga draws on her vast experience to advise brokerage firms in the Ecuadorian banking and finance sphere.
"We have a very fluid work dynamic with Margoth Chiriboga. She has great expertise and years of knowledge in banking and finance matters."
Ranked Lawyers at
Lexvalor Abogados
Ecuador
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Industries
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Banking
Energy
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