Gallegos, Valarezo & Neira

Gallegos, Valarezo & Neira successfully represents local and foreign investors in real estate since the firm’s foundation in 2001. The Firm has experience and important achievements in national and international administrative procurement, tax litigation, administrative-contentious proceedings, and complex arbitration hearings. Likewise, the Firm specializes in providing support, strategic legal and business consulting for companies of all sizes, corporate governance best practices, training, education, and participation in boards of national and foreign companies. It has taken part in setting up trusts and corporate structuring, due diligence, company mergers and acquisitions, international franchising, legal consulting for financial and banking operations, intellectual property, and energy projects. The firm provides legal, administrative, legal representation, provision of tax residence and other required support to foreign direct investors and new ventures starting to operate in Ecuador.

Our partner Dr. Juan Carlos Gallegos is part of the third generation of Attorneys at Law recognized as experts in Real Estate Law.

The Firm is strongly committed to the real estate practice. Infrastructure, developments, housing projects for all market segments are part our the firm´s day to day work in this practice area. The legal practice includes strong capabilities in the revision, analysis and amendment of property titles; design and structure of real estate projects, drafting of special instruments for real estate deals; advise in tax and financial matters involving real estate transactions; drafting and negotiating all kind of contracts, including purchase, sale, barter, construction, infrastructure, special development structures, usufruct, leasing, concession, and trusts agreements.

Gallegos Valarezo & Neira has successfully advised its various clients on matters of real estate accumulations, subdivisions, partitions, correction of areas and boundaries, establishment of exclusive and common ownership systems, internal regulations. The firm´s team has used creative structures in negotiations like, special legal vehicles, escrow accounts, among other.

Our partner Edgar Neira Orellana and his team specializes in litigation, arbitration and tax compliance during tax assessment procedures before the Internal Revenue Service and before District Contentious-Tax Courts.

The Firm has ample experience in tax litigation, tax refund requests for undue or excessive tax payments, administrative claim procedures, contentious-tax proceedings to challenge tax assessments, processing appeals regarding rulings of the District Contentious-Tax Court.