Spain’s ECIJA Integrates Another Law Firm in Ecuador

Spain’s ECIJA has built-in an additional regulation organization in Ecuador, incorporating four associates and a fourth city to its coverage of the South American country.

Estudio Central associates Juan Valdivieso González, Sebastián López Hidalgo, Xavier Molina López and Santiago Vega Malo deliver experience in constitutional, tax and intellectual home legislation in Cuenca, a picturesque colonial metropolis in the Andean highlands of Ecuador.

“With Estudio Central integrated into ECIJA GPA, we search with optimism to the Ecuador of right now and we bet on a more substantial country with equality, absolutely free trade and growth across industries,” Gonzalo González, managing partner of ECIJA GPA in Ecuador, said in a assertion.

González pointed out that a solitary business enterprise group in the Cuenca location accounts for 4% of Ecuador’s gross domestic products. ECIJA is the only worldwide regulation organization in the metropolis, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Cuenca is a hub for market, mining, authentic estate and tourism.

The partners at Estudio Central mentioned in a statement: “The function and presence of an international organization in the metropolis of Cuenca will consolidate a new vision of the legal exercise, incorporating practices with the highest intercontinental specifications, giving our consumers with specialised suggestions in new regions of law with the added price of obtaining a international arrive at.”

The Estudio Central team has sufficient encounter in corporate dispute resolution matters, as perfectly as in advising Ecuadorean and worldwide organizations and institutions.

ECIJA entered Ecuador in mid-2020 through the integration of González Peñaherrera & Asociados Abogados, which had places of work in the capital Quito as properly as in the port metropolis Guayaquil.

In 2022, the firm opened a third place of work in Ecuador, in the coastal city of Manta, the heart of the country’s sizeable fishing sector. Ecuador is the world’s 2nd-greatest producer of tuna.

ECIJA has offices in 13 Latin American nations, as properly as an outpost in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. Close to the planet, the business employs much more than 900 authorized gurus.