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Dentons Paz Horowitz Offices
Calle del establo y calle E.
Site Center, Torre 1, oficina 301.
Cumbaya, Quito
Ecuador
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Agustin Acosta Cárdenas
Work Department
Corporate law, M&A, Mediation and Arbitration, Compliance & Anticorruption, Public Procurement, Energy & Natural Resources.
Position
Partner
Career
Agustin Acosta Cárdenas is an LLM graduate from the International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration program at New York University, with 11 years of experience.
He advices multinational and domestic corporations on different practice areas such as contractual and corporate matters, public procurement, investment contracts, ADR, international arbitration, compliance and anti-corruption.
Agustin has received a certificate of congratulations by Economic & Commercial Unit the Embassy of the United States, due to its contribution as speaker and advice in certain matters.
Also, was the only Ecuadorian lawyer in the public & private delegation to Washington DC to reactivate the Trade and Investment Committee between the United States and Ecuador.
Agustin was president of the Ecuadorian Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and presently he is the Technical Secretary of the Integrity and Anticorruption Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce in Ecuador.
Languages
Spanish and English
Memberships
- International Bar Association and American Bar Association.
- Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG) of the Court of International Arbitration of London.
- Chamber of Commerce Young Arbitrations Forum (ICC-YAF).
Education
- Master’s degree (LL.M.) in International Commercial Law, Litigation and Arbitration, New York University, School of Law, 2012.
- Lawyer Magna Cum Laude, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, 2010.
- ISO 37001 Certification, Anti Bribery Lead Auditor and Lead Implementor, 2018.
- Qualified mediator, in progress.
- Candidate for a Master’s Degree in Business Law from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
- More than 90 hours of Certifications in Negotiation, Tax Handling and Tax Update; Universidad San Francisco de Quito, 2016 – 2017.
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.