Leyre Suarez > Dentons Paz Horowitz > Quito, Ecuador > Lawyer Profile
Dentons Paz Horowitz Offices
Calle del establo y calle E.
Site Center, Torre 1, oficina 301.
Cumbaya, Quito
Ecuador
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Leyre Suarez
Work Department
Litigation, Mediation and Arbitration, Administrative Law and Energy and Natural Resources.
Position
Senior Associate
Career
Leyre Suarez is an LLM graduate from the International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration program at New York University, with 7 years of experience in litigation, mediation, arbitration, administrative law, energy and natural resources.
Leyre is an active teacher in the Law School of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where she teaches different courses in Civil Law.
Besides working on important law firms throughout the country, she has been chosen by Chamber & Partners as “Associate to Watch” on Ecuador, in the Dispute Resolution area.
She worked in the litigation and arbitration departments, drafting legal documents, including closing statements and appellate briefs. Also, on international investment arbitration and international commercial arbitration cases involving issues of administrative, public procurement and environmental law.
Leyre is the author of several articles for the “Revista Ecuatoriana de Arbitraje”, “The International Arbitration Review”, “Global Arbitration Review”, “Arbitration Guide” from the International Bar Association, among others.
Languages
Spanish, English, French
Memberships
- Pichincha Bar Association.
Education
- LLM, International Business Regulation Litigation and Arbitration, New York University School of Law, 2016.
- Lawyer Summa Cum Laude, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, 2012.
Lawyer Rankings
Ecuador > Dispute resolution
(Leading associates)Dentons Paz Horowitz
represents national and foreign companies from the energy, aviation, tourism and pharmaceutical industries (among others) in judicial proceedings and commercial and investment arbitrations. Jorge Paz Durini oversees the dispute resolution team with three other practitioners: Leyre Suarez specialises in litigation arising from administrative, commercial, labour and civil disputes, while Gabriel Santelices and Patricia Andrade focus on labour claims. Juan Jose Mantilla is a name to note for public procurement and administrative litigation.