Adv Marcelo Torres > Noboa, Peña & Torres, Abogados > Guayaquil, Ecuador > Lawyer Profile
Noboa, Peña & Torres, Abogados Offices
JUNÍN 114 Y MALECÓN SIMÓN BOLÍVAR
EDIFICIO TORRES DEL RÍO, PISO 8
GUAYAQUIL
Ecuador
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Adv Marcelo Torres
Work Department
- Corporate & Commercial
- Arbitration
- Labour & Employment
Position
Founding partner
Career
Marcelo Torres is a founding partner of the firm and has more than 25 years of experience in the legal practice in Ecuador.
Marcelo focuses his practice on M&A, commercial and corporate, arbitration, and labour and employment law, all of which he intensively practices by advising national and multinational corporations. Besides his profuse law practice, he currently sits with prominent businesspeople on several top-ranked private companies’ boards of directors where he provides legal orientation to the important business matters brought to the decision table.
comprehensive past experience includes the academic, as guest professor in labour law, arbitration law and business law at the two most prominent universities in Guayaquil. In the public sector he also served as adviser to the City Mayor, the Ministry of Agriculture and member of the National Securities Council.
Languages
Spanish, English.
Memberships
- Ecuadorian Bar Association.
- Member of the panel of arbitrators and President of the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the Chamber of Commerce of Guayaquil.
- Member of the panel of arbitrators of the Inter American Commercial Arbitration Commission (IACAC-ICDR).
Education
- Law Degree from the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil.
- Master of Laws from the University of Miami.
Lawyer Rankings
Ecuador > Corporate and M&A
Noted for its ‘personalised attention‘ and ‘professionals with an excellent level of preparation’, Noboa, Peña & Torres, Abogados is experienced in domestic and multijurisdictional transactions in multiple industries. Its varied client roster features major foreign companies, prominent local enterprises, non-profit organisations and entrepreneurs. Corporate and commercial law specialist Marcelo Torres oversees the practice with founding partner Patricio Peña R., a name to note for corporates, private equity funds and financial institutions, and Francisco Larrea, who takes the lead on oil and gas, infrastructure and energy-related matters. Gonzalo Noboa Baquerizo and Patricia Marchán are other key contacts in the team.