Blanca Gómez de la Torre > ECIJA GPA > Quito, Ecuador > Lawyer Profile
ECIJA GPA Offices
AV. 12 DE OCTUBRE Y LINCOLN
OFICINA 1005
QUITO
Ecuador
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Blanca Gómez de la Torre
Work Department
Partner of Dispute Resolution: litigation and arbitration
Position
Partner
Career
Blanca has over 20 years of experience in civil, commercial, administrative and national and international arbitration litigation. Her professional practice has also been linked to the areas of national and international public law, competition, finance, banking and aviation.
Blanca has acted as counsel for parties in investment and commercial arbitrations under ICSID, UNCITRAL and ICC rules, among others.
She is a member of the list of arbitrators of the Quito Chamber of Commerce and the Lima Chamber of Commerce. He has been arbitrator of the ICDR of the American Arbitration Association and in the Chamber of Commerce of Quito.
She is a professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Commercial Arbitration at the University of San Francisco de Quito.
Languages
English and Spanish
Memberships
Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb.), the Spanish Club of Arbitration (CEA) and the Latin American International Arbitration (LIA). She is a founding member of WIP Ecuador.
Education
She has a doctorate in Jurisprudence from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, a higher specialist in procedural law from the Simón Bolívar Andean University and a master’s degree in international commercial law from the International University of La Rioja in Spain.
Lawyer Rankings
Ecuador > Dispute resolution
(Leading partners)Noted for its ‘high degree of experience’, the arbitration department at ECIJA GPA is active in domestic and international arbitration proceedings under ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC and AAA/CIAC rules. Commercial and investment arbitration, as well as collection claims and judicial recovery are key strengths of the team, which predominantly acts for clients operating in the energy, construction, telecoms, and oil-and-gas sectors. In Quito, Juan Carlos Montenegro focuses on civil litigation, while Blanca Gomez De La Torre oversees the arbitration department. Gonzalo González, who specialises in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, Jaime Dousdebes, who handles constitutional and public procurement matters, and Christel Gaibor are other names to note in the same office. Byron Sotomayor heads the dispute resolution team in Guayaquil, while Xavier Molina and Sebastián López are key contacts in Cuenca, and Ingrid Rodríguez oversees the civil litigation department in Manta.