Our people

Practice Areas

Oil and mining, Electricity, Telecommunications, Project Finance, Foreign Investment, International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution.

Born

Quito, Ecuador.

Admitted

1992 Ecuador, Attorney at Law.

Education

Harvard Law School (LLM, 1998); Universidad San Francisco de Quito (MBA, 1995, included a semester at Babson College); Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (Juris Doctor, 1992), 1991 Academy of International and American Law, sponsored by the Southwestern Legal Foundation at the University of Texas at Dallas. Experience: Bustamante & Bustamante (2003 – 2007, and 2015 – 2020); Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP) Ecuador S.A., in-house counsel on project finance and international transactions (2007 – 2015); National Bureau of Economic Research NBER, short-term consultant for The World Bank in comparative law research (Cambridge, MA, 2001 - 2002);  Consejo Nacional de Modernización del Estado CONAM, consultant in telecommunications, electricity, and oil and mining (1998 – 2000); Conflict Management Group, consultant and instructor on negotiations and process advice (Cambridge, MA, 1996 - 1997); Pérez, Bustamante & Pérez, Abogados (1992 – 1996). Ecuadorian American Chamber of Commerce, mediator (since 2007); Centro Internacional de Arbitraje y Mediación CIAM, arbitrator (since 2022); Centro de Arbitraje y Mediación de las Cámaras de la Producción del Azuay, arbitrator (since 2022). IDE Business School, professor of Negotiations for the MBA program (since 2018); Universidad de las Américas UDLA, professor of negotiation at graduate programs (since 2007). Co-author Ecuador chapter, Getting the Deal Through - Public-Private Partnerships, Law Business Research (2016); Co-author Ecuador chapter Attachment of Assets, Juris Publishing (2014); Co-author Ecuador chapter International Comparative Legal Guide: International Arbitration, Global Legal Group (2005, 2006, 2007).

Member

Pichincha Bar Association. Ecuadorian American Chamber of Commerce. British Ecuadorian Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Harvard Club of Ecuador.

Languages

Spanish and English.