Lexvalor Abogados

Firm Overview:
LEXVALOR Abogados is a dynamic and consolidated full-service law firm with a reputation of excellence based on outstanding results in line with its clients’ expectations, delivering services from its offices in Quito and Guayaquil and through a wide network of correspondents throughout the world.

The firm today has a team of 52 lawyers and a total of 86 members including accountants, financial experts and staff to support legal and administrative matters. The firm specialises in several areas of the law and holds in depth knowledge of the economic sectors in which they perform. The professionals of the firm are trained in prestigious local and international universities.

The firm and its lawyers are members of the following legal networks: International Bar Association (IBA), American Bar Association (ABA), International Fiscal Association (IFA), International Trademark Association (INTA), Interamerican Intellectual Property Association (ASIPI), Latin American Network of Labor Attorneys, ICC Ecuador, Ibero-American Forum on Administrative Law, Ecuadorian-American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM), Alliance for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (AEI), among others.

Main Areas of Practice: 

Banking and Finance:
The firm has participated in the structuring of capital market transactions, including corporate bond issues, commercial paper, securitisations, and other financial products for company financing. LEXVALOR Abogados is also known for its experience in structuring multilateral credit operations, as well as in syndicated loan operations to finance major projects in Ecuador.

Competition & Antitrust:
The team provides a full scope of services in the antitrust/competition field, ranging from counsel on abuse of dominance, cartels, merger control, state aid, unfair competition, to litigation in administrative and judicial forums related to these matters.

Corporate:
The firm provides the full range of corporate and strategic counsel for investments in the country. The firm handles multiple corporate matters, especially related to processes of new company incorporation, business structure, corporate restructuring of business groups, negotiation of contracts, establishment of corporate agreements, commercial advice, among others.

Dispute Resolution:
The firm specialised in dispute prevention and resolution. The litigation team is specially focused on civil, commercial, administrative, labour and tax actions.The firm represent both public and private entities in international and domestic arbitration as well as mediation processes.

Intellectual Property:
The IP team handles prosecution and maintenance of IP portfolios locally and worldwide, including trademarks, trade names, designs, patents, copyright. The team is regularly entrusted with litigation in administrative and judicial forums for the defense of IP rights, including anti-counterfeiting actions.

Labour and Employment:
Advise to clients in matters related to labour contracts and prevention of labour conflicts that may arise from the relationship between workers and employers. The firm also provides assistance on social security matters and immigration issues.

Mergers and Acquisitions:
The team has consolidateda specializedM&A practice through a portfolioof transactions in a wide range of industries,representing buyers or sellers, inboth local and multijurisdictional transactions. Our full-service practice approach allows us to integrate specialists from different teams toprovide a tailoredand multidisciplinarycorporate advisory service in transactions

Public Law:
The Public Law division has a team of lawyers with extensive training and experience to provide advice and sponsorship in administrative proceedings, strategic alliances, governmental control and administrative and constitutional litigation, with a high level of specialization.

Real Estate:
LEXVALOR Abogados provides legal advice throughout all stages of real estate projects, from the acquisition of the land and the obtainment of municipal permits, to the structuring of tax and contractual schemes for the project implementation.

Tax:
The team of professionals specialises in fiscal related matters, finance, and accounting. LEXVALOR Abogados services include tax–efficient structures for transactions and strategic tax planning. It also represents clients before the tax authorities and courts on tax and customs.

Languages:
English, French, German, Spanish.

Clients:
LEXVALOR’s list of clients includes an important number of national and multinational leading companies in sectors such as pharmaceutical, real estate, food and beverages, retail, tourism, finance, insurance, sports, and petroleum services.