Bayardo Poveda > ECIJA GPA > Quito, Ecuador > Lawyer Profile

ECIJA GPA
AV. 12 DE OCTUBRE Y LINCOLN
OFICINA 1005
QUITO
Ecuador

Work Department

Corporate/M&A, Competition Law, Oil & Gas, Dispute resolution: litigation and arbitration

Position

Partner

Career

ayardo has more than 20 years of experience in international business, foreign investment, cross-border merger and acquisition, financial projects, debt issuance, and multilateral and syndicated credit operations. He has practice in regulatory affairs, public procurement, public-private partnership; legal support and participation in projects related to the energy, hydrocarbon, mining and electrical sectors. He is also a consultant and advisor to multinational private entities. He was a consultant to the Ecuadorian State for the implementation of free competition legislation and regulation. He has experience in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. Before joining ECIJA GPA, he has been a partner and associate in important law firms in Quito and Brussels.

Languages

Spanish, English and French.

Education

Bayardo is a Lawyer and Doctor in Jurisprudence from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. He has a postgraduate degree in Financial, Banking and Insurance Law at the Simón Bolívar Andean University of Quito, he also has an LLM in Law and Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He has completed postgraduate studies in International Commercial Arbitration, at the Academy of International Law in The Hague, and in Economic Aspects of Free Competition Law, at the Catholic University of Santiago, in Chile.

Lawyer Rankings

Ecuador > Energy and natural resources

Recommended for its ‘high level of preparation and individualised attention to each case’, ECIJA GPA‘s team is headed by Gonzalo González and Bayardo Poveda, who, together with other team members, offer clients advice on a broad range of complex issues. These include day-to-day matters, as well as advice on large transactions such as the migration of oil contracts, negotiation with the state concerning contracts, and the delegation of field operations. Practice co-head Poveda draws on over 20 years of experience in the energy sector. Energy expert Álvaro Ordoñez departed from the firm in December 2022 to join the Ministry of Energy and Mines.