Rocio Cordova > 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 and negotiation, Civil law, Non-nenewable resources, Energy, Finance, among others. 

Position

Partner

Career

Rocio Cordova is an attorney with 17 years of experience in corporate law, mediation and arbitration, intellectual property, contracts and negotiation, real estate, labor, civil law, non-renewable resources and other practice areas.

She has an LLM in finance law, stock exchange and insurance from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador, and an LLM in the law master’s programme from the University of Melbourne in Australia.

As an expert in corporate and contractual matters, Rocio advises multinational corporations on a day-to-day basis and she has participated in many merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, corporate restructuring and corporate governance, and in the negotiation of business contracts.

Languages

Spanish, English, Portuguese, French

Memberships

  • Association of Ecuadorian Female Attorneys “AMAE”
  • Pichincha Bar Association

Education

  • Master of Law, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2015.
  • Master’s Degree in Stock Exchanges, Financial Securities and Insurance Law, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, 2008.
  • Specialization in Finance, Financial Securities and Insurance Law, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, 2007.
  • Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, 2005

Lawyer Rankings

Ecuador > Banking and finance

Dentons Paz Horowitz handles a host of banking and finance mandates, ranging from corporate finance to project finance in the real estate sector, judicial debt recoveries and banking matters. Gabriel Solís Vinueza, who excels in corporate banking issues, oversees the practice alongside Rocio Cordova, who acts for a diverse roster of banking clients. and María del Mar Hereda is a key contact for European, North American and Asian players.

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.