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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
The ‘highly competent team’ at Dentons Paz Horowitz
assists national and international clients with mergers, acquisitions, disposals and the incorporation and regulatory oversight of companies. Managing partner Agustin Acosta Cárdenas is a key individual in the group, which also features co-founder Jorge Paz Durini, a contact for consequential deals in the mining, telecoms and energy sectors. Other noteworthy practitioners include Rocio Cordova, who is experienced in corporate, contractual and transactional matters, recently promoted partner Maria Del Mar Heredia, who assists with M&A and contracts in the energy, mining and real estate segments, and Valeria Rosero, who has a strong following of clients from the life sciences space.