Noboa, Peña & Torres

Firm Details:

Managing Partner: Gonzalo Noboa

Number of senior partners: 4

Number of other lawyers: 18

Languages: Spanish, English, Italian

Contacts: Gonzalo Noboa as Managing Partner and Eduardo Lopez as General Manager

Corporate/Commercial and M&A: Marcelo Torres, Patricio Peña and Francisco Larrea

Banking, Finance & Capital Markets: Patricio Peña, Francisco Larrea

Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Gonzalo Noboa, Marcelo Torres, and Margarita Vélez

Labour: Marcelo Torres and Patricio Peña

Energy: Francisco Larrea

Tax: Patricio Peña

Antitrust: Gonzalo Noboa, Francisco Larrea

Criminal Law and Compliance: Gonzalo Noboa and Juan José Hidalgo

Firm Overview:

With over 20 years of experience in the Ecuadorian legal market, Noboa, Peña & Torres, Abogados is an Ecuadorian law firm that stands out for its high standard of professionalism, ethics, and constant search for innovative solutions, which are provided nationwide through its two strategically located offices in the cities of Quito and Guayaquil.

The firm provides sophisticated legal advice and add value to their clients by delivering high quality legal products and services, with a clear and commercially focused point of view based on a solid understanding of their business. Clients value the firm’s capability to deliver solid, creative, effective and cost-efficient legal advice based on their needs and goals.

Noboa, Peña & Torres, Abogados is also a founding partner of the Ibero-American Legal Network(Red Legal Iberoamericana), an alliance of prestigious Ibero American Law Firms with 21 offices in 18 countries, having as main objective the creation of business opportunities for clients in those jurisdictions.

Main Areas of Practice

Litigation and Dispute Resolution:

The department is characterized by its focus on judicial strategies based on a thorough study and understanding of the core business of their clients, in addition to efforts to provide the best customer experience personalized and direct attention from the head of the department.

The area have in-depth knowledge and experience in conducing highly complex litigation, mainly in civil and commercial litigation on tort law before any judicial or administrative jurisdiction. The team provides innovative and strategic legal perspectives that often lead to the success of their clients. Also, The firm is very active in the arbitration field both in domestic and international proceedings. In this sense partner, Marcelo Torres is the current President of the Arbitration Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Guayaquil, one of the most respected arbitration forums of the country.

Corporate/Commercial and M&A:

The firm have in-depth knowledge and experience in sophisticated transaction, involving both national and international matters, and providing the firm's clientes with innovative solutions to bring the most intricate transactions to completion.

The team has vast experience in assisting clients in structuring, negotiating, and documenting the full array of project and financing agreements tailored to each of their needs and the practice of the firm's jurisdiction.

Tax:

The area is composed by an interdisciplinary team of lawyers and accountants that allows to offer integral services for the highly complex matter raised by their clients. The versatility of the team has permitted us to help clients in the design of their new ventures and investments with efficient tax structures, as well in the execution of efficient domestic and international transaction thought under highly sophisticated tax strategy.

Banking, Finance & Capital Markets:

The team has extensive experience advising banks and financial institutions (including Banco Pichincha, Produbanco, Bolivariano, Internacional and Citibank), investments banks, consumer credit companies, brokers and investors, both national and international.

Additionally, it has broad recognition in the project finance field. They have participated in some of the most complex and renowned project finance in Ecuador and also have close relationships and alliances with law firms abroad that allow them to offer an efficient consulting on compliance with the rules of the origin markets.

Labour & Employment:

The firm’s department is well known for providing solid and personalized legal counsel on complex individual and collective contracts as well as their terminations. The department provides innovative advice on a wide range of matters related to employment regulations and compliance, social security, and safety issues, including employee training workshops that seek to prevent potential claims related to infringement of labour rights, accidents, discrimination and immigration issues.

Antitrust:

The firm has been involved in due diligence processes of market leaders in the following sectors: industrial, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical. The Firm has provided legal advice in a bid rigging investigation and assessed diverse confidential transactions with relevant antitrust implications.

Energy:

Their practice includes advice on everything related to regulatory matters and transactions in the areas of energy production, specially in the Oil & Gas, mining, electricity and renewable energy sectors. The energy clients turn to them for their knowledge of the commercial complexities of the industry and experience at every stage of the value chain.

The sustained commitment to client service is reflected in the long-standing relationships as advisors to their clients. The team have also developed substantive experience in negotiating contracts with government counterparties. The industry sector expertise includes advising foreign and national investor from the bidding process/negotiation process to advising in all matters regarding the operations and development projects.

Criminal Law:

Our partner, attorney Juan José Hidalgo Huerta, brings over 25 years of experience to the field, and our team possesses extensive expertise in litigation and representation in criminal proceedings. We excel in crafting case theories and employing various legal skills necessary to deliver high-quality services to our clients.

Our primary focus areas encompass offenses related to Economic Criminal Law, Environmental Criminal Law, Corporate and Commercial Crimes, Property Offenses, Financial System, Corruption, among others. Given the complexity of this field, we take pride in practicing Criminal Law grounded on the values of loyalty, transparency, diligence, and commitment.

Compliance:

In the field of regulatory compliance, our team has extensive experience in advising and providing assistance in the implementation of compliance programs for various companies. We offer specialized services tailored to the needs of each client based on their economic activity.

We focus on advising compliance with current regulations, minimizing legal risks, and preserving the reputation of businesses. Our team provides strategic and practical guidance in the realm of regulatory compliance, offering effective solutions to promote ethical conduct and avoid legal penalties.