Juan Carlos Pérez > Dentons Paz Horowitz > Quito, Ecuador > Lawyer Profile

Dentons Paz Horowitz
Calle del establo y calle E.
Site Center, Torre 1, oficina 301.
Cumbaya, Quito
Ecuador

Work Department

Corporate Law, Contracts, Aviation, Mining, Consumer law.

Position

Partner

Career

Juan Carlos Perez is an LLM graduate from the UC Davis School of Law with more than 21 years of experience in aviation law, consumer law, mining, corporate, insurance and contract law. He has been advising remarkable corporations in different matters related to the core of their business, such as administrative, corporate, labor, contracts, consumers, insurance, among others. Juan Carlos has been recognized as “The region’s leading business lawyers for Administrative Law” by LACCA; and as “Aeronautical lawyer in Ecuador” by Corporate INTL. 

He has been teaching aviation law and consumer law for more than 10 years at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.

Juan Carlos handled and advised two major airlines to carry out operations from/to Ecuador (Air France and Interjet), both of them begun operations last year.  

Languages

English and Spanish.

Memberships

  • Chamber of Mining of Ecuador
  • Ecuadorian-American Chamber of Commerce of Quito
  • Association of Airline Representatives in Ecuador (ARLAE)

Education

  • LL.M., University of California, Davis School of Law, 2011.
  • Doctor of Jurisprudence, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, 2003

Lawyer Rankings

Ecuador > Corporate and M&A

Jorge Paz Durini, Agustin Acosta Cárdenas, Rocio Cordova, David Benalcazar and Juan Carlos Pérez run Dentons Paz Horowitz‘s team, noted for its ‘good knowledge of regulatory management that must be met in order to operate in the country’. The group is indeed well equipped to handle complex and regulatory matters such as advice on regulatory compliance and permits required by different industries, especially for new businesses and investments in Ecuador. Legal director Gabriel Santelices is a standout member of the team, with experience advising private companies on corporate restructuring processes and compliance and corporate governance systems.