Our team of lawyers will attend your case with empathy, transparency and professionalism.
We are a boutique law firm with the experience of a big law firm. Our academic preparation plus the experience obtained with our national and international clients has given us a wide-open vision of the correct legal strategy for those who trust us in their problems and businesses.
In addition to our practice, we sponsor academic events and our partners participate as speakers.
Practice areas
Business
Experience:
- Constitution and establishment of a French company to start operations in Ecuador.
- Negotiation of health records between the distributor in the country and the French parent company.
- Management of one of the largest business groups in Manabí.
- Inhouse advice to one of the largest groups in Ecuador.
- Arbitration litigation
- Negotiations with workers for another of the largest groups in Ecuador.
- Development and implementation in several companies, simultaneously, of a business group.
- Advice for expatriate administrators and partners / shareholders.
Intellectual Property
We have advised to some of the biggest foreign companies that are investing in Ecuador.
Lawsuits & Disputes
We have advised to two of the biggest corporative groups in Ecuador and also companies from overseas in litigations against Ecuadorian companies that did not fulfilled their obligations.
Consumer Rights
We highly believe that obligations are for both parties: the company and the buyer. Therefore what we always seek is for justice for everybody.
Immigration
We have advised mainly for people from Canada, United States of America and France. Nevertheless, we are ready to provide advice to any person that needs it.
Family
Our team understands the importance of a family so we will provide assistance having into consideration said importance and the law.
Our Partners and Associates
Andrés W. Chugá Porras, LLM.
Founding Partner
EXPERIENCE
Andrés is a founding partner and has worked throughout his career with large multinationals and with two of the largest business groups in Ecuador. This has allowed him to understand the relevance of each legal action in order to ensure the interest of his clients' business.
His work has consisted of preparing legal strategies at the national level and, likewise, jointly with international law firms or directly with companies, strategies for application abroad, especially in member countries of the Andean Community.
He has intervened in highly complex judicial processes and has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution methods, especially in Arbitration and Mediation. In the same way, his preparation in negotiation has allowed him to obtain magnificent results for his clients.
His advice has not been limited to companies but also to people from abroad or private nationals who have required his sponsorship, being the attorney in their country.
Specialist in Intellectual Property and litigant in the same matter, he has provided advice to world-renowned brands, foreign brands seeking to invest in Ecuador, annulment actions, administrative protection, preventive measures, national undertakings, implementation and transfer of technology, including the development and contractual review for each case.
As Attorney and Legal Attorney of several foreign and national companies, he has provided his sponsorship in investments and is even part of the Board of Directors of several client companies domiciled in Ecuador.
He has participated as a lecturer in multiple events and has been a professor in matters related to the protection of enterprises through Intellectual Property in higher education institutions.
He is linked and constantly works with the Ecuadorian American Chambers of Commerce - AMCHAM and the Quito Chamber of Commerce, where he is part of the list of mediators in their Arbitration and Mediation Centers.
Case results
Arbitration lawsuit against Government
ADR Mediation & Arbitration
Andres was part of the team that provided legal sponsorship to a company that filed a lawsuit against a Government for an agreement breach. The lawsuit was for more than 60 millions USD.
Antitrust law infringement by a competitor
Antitrust
We have legal sponsored one of the biggest companies in Ecuador in a persuasive legal strategy because the competitor was breaking the Antitrust Law. In said negotiation we stopped the other company to keep breaking said law and to promise under a legal document that they will not do that again under a penalty.
Trademarks
Intellectual Property
We are lawyers of national and multinational clients whose trademarks are very well known. Also, we have advised several clients in legal strategies that took place in various countries at the same time. We understand the importance of a trademark or any other IP figure such as patents, utility models and designs.