Jorge Cedeño > Pino Elizalde Abogados > Guayaquil, Ecuador > Lawyer Profile

Pino Elizalde Abogados‘ team, which is based in the firm’s main office in Guayaquil, regularly appears before the Contentious Administrative Chamber of the National Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court of Ecuador. Marco (Valentín) Elizalde, who founded the firm in 2017, leads the team and focused his practice in particular on arbitration, labour litigation and civil litigation during 2022. At the associate level, Jorge Cedeño is especially active in insolvency proceedings. Fellow associate Paulette Ocampo left the firm in April 2022. In an important development, since publication the firm has opened a Quito office – effective as of February 2024.

The real estate group at Guayaquil-based Pino Elizalde Abogados is active throughout the multiple stages of a project’s lifecycle, from structuring matters to developments arising out of municipal regulatory issues and contractual, financial and tax matters. The team is co-headed by Daniel Pino, a name to note for oil, natural resources and pharmaceutical companies for corporate and commercial mandates, and associate practice director Jorge Cedeño, a strategic cross-border expert. Additional key figures at associate level include senior Montserrat Sanchez, who commonly handles the tax aspects of real estate projects; and intermediate María Ritha Guillén, who is noted for her regulatory knowledge. In an important development, since publication the firm has opened a Quito office – effective as of February 2024.