Corporate/Commercial
Latin America Guide 2025 : Ecuador
Band 1
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Provided by Pérez Bustamante & Ponce
We help companies coming to Ecuador structure their businesses and establish operations as efficiently as possible. Our lawyers offer clients corporate expertise and labor, tax and regulatory advice to guarantee the best strategy.
This focus allows us to:
- Advise on corporate reorganizations to ensure the best local and multijurisdictional corporate structures.
- Help companies and enterprises with regulatory compliance and dealings with regulators.
- Advise on the implementation of best corporate governance practices and shareholder agreements.
- Advise values-driven companies (B corporations) on incorporation and operation.
Chambers Review
Heavyweight full-service law firm Pérez Bustamante & Ponce benefits from a renowned corporate practice group in Ecuador. The legal team possesses recognised lawyers assisting leading local and international clients with cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, share purchase agreements and divestitures. Pérez Bustamante & Ponce boasts additional expertise in handling complex corporate restructuring, as well as assisting startups and major multinationals with their incorporations in the country.
Work Highlights
- Pérez Bustamante & Ponce advised Otecel, an entity of Telefónica, on the local legal effects of Saudi Telecom's 9.9% acquisition of Telefónica in Spain, including the regulatory matters related to the minority acquisition.
Strengths
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"Pérez Bustamante & Ponce has a very agile and experienced team with some of the best lawyers in Ecuador."
"We go to Pérez Bustamante & Ponce when we have matters with a high level of complexity and associated risk. They provide speedy and quality responses that make us feel secure in their advice."
"Pérez Bustamante & Ponce has a very agile and experienced team with some of the best lawyers in Ecuador."
"We go to Pérez Bustamante & Ponce when we have matters with a high level of complexity and associated risk. They provide speedy and quality responses that make us feel secure in their advice."
Notable Practitioners
Distinguished practitioner Diego Pérez-Ordóñez benefits from extensive experience in the Ecuadorian market, notably in M&A transactions and antitrust matters with cross-border implications.
"Diego Pérez-Ordóñez is a trusted authority in the corporate field for his wealth of experience and deep understanding of the intricacies of the Ecuadorian legal system."
"Diego Pérez-Ordóñez is a strategic individual who is able to coordinate global teams and his advice carries weight during decision-making processes. It is excellent working with him."
Stellar partner and department co-head Juan Manuel Marchán comes highly recommended by clients for his in-depth expertise in transactional and non-transactional matters in Ecuador.
"I have the highest opinion of Juan Manuel Marchán in corporate and M&A matters. He is brilliant, insightful, commercially aware and able to identify potential impacts to our company."
"Juan Manuel Marchán provides practical solutions and is always available to help. We feel very at ease working with him."
Endorsed by clients and peers alike, Pedro Pérez continues to receive recognition for his expert handling of corporate matters in Ecuador, including significant M&A transactions.
"Pedro Pérez is highly professional."
Up-and-coming partner Andrés Brown Pérez is esteemed by market voices for his activity in Ecuador's transactional arena and is recognised for his key work on significant M&A processes.
"Andrés Brown Pérez is an excellent lawyer. He is highly technical, practical and responsive."
Associate-to-watch Maria Francisca Gallegos-Anda receives noteworthy plaudits from the Ecuadorian market for her corporate transactional work.
"Maria Francisca Gallegos-Anda is a very good M&A lawyer and a talented negotiator."
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