This article explores: (i) Ecuadorian courts' historic approach to the availability of cassation (recurso de casación) against decisions that resolve annulment proceedings of arbitral awards ..

After bad experiences with concessions, the Ministry of Public Constructions seemed to have a doubt to handle public roads and highways. Now, the definition seems to appear under the policy of delegation instead of direct concession.

ovedades Jurídicas, the legal supplement of El Comercio, publishes an article by our Senior Associate Ramón Paz y Miño and our Associate Mateo Zavala in which they explain the...

The Ecuadorian Standardization Service (INEN) is part of the Ecuadorian Quality System and plays an important role in regulation, standardization and metrology.

During this past month, Ecuador's ratification of the ICSID Convention and its direct influence on the attraction of foreign investment has been the subject of many comments.

Siempre atentos a sus necesidades, ponemos en su conocimiento las principales obligaciones de carácter legal que corresponden al mes de marzo 2018.

The Second Chamber of District Administrative Litigation Court No. 1 issued judgment on March 1, 2005, acknowledging BAT’s right to register (use?) its BELMONT trademark in Ecuador.  In an action that began in 1997, partner Jose Rafael Bustamante led a team of Bustamante & Bustamante litigators that played a decisive role in convincing the Court to overcome the opposition filed by BAT rival Phillip Morris.

Con mucho agrado vemos como las actividades de difusión del arbitraje en Ecuador se multiplican y abarcan a jóvenes profesionales que proponen nuevas visiones y renovada energía al desarrollo de la institución.

Novedades Jurídicas, el suplemento legal de El Comercio, publica un artículo de nuestro Asociado Senior Ramón Paz y Miño y nuestro Asociado Mateo Zavala en el que explican la imprevisión...

The amendment to the General Organic Code of Processes (COGEP), which entered into force on June 26, 2019, modified article 64(4) substantially modifying the interruption of the statute of limitations

On 21 June 2021, the Government of the Republic of Ecuador ("Ecuador") became the 164th State to sign the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (the "ICSID Convention").

The CCE reiterated that such protection action cannot be applied in all cases nor constitutes an additional instance of the process.

Article 50 of Decision 486 of the Andean Community ("Decision") determines that the duration of a patent is twenty years, starting from the date of submission of the application in the member country.

Durante este último mes ha sido materia de muchos comentarios la ratificación del Convenio CIADI por parte de Ecuador, y de su influencia directa en la atracción de inversión extranjera.

The Law on Incentives for Public-Private Alliances and its regulations include provisions approving local and international arbitration as a means for dispute resolution in relation to PPA contracts.

In general terms, doctrine tends to define expiration as "(…) the period that produces the termination of a thing or a right," or as "the loss of force and effect of a power upon expiration of the term for its execution."

La figura del fórum shopping aparece en el ámbito del Derecho Internacional Privado, entendiéndose como este...

By legal provision, previously, acts and contracts had to be performed and granted before a Notary Public as a single act.

2021 marked a new chapter for arbitration in Ecuador: after re-joining the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention in June, Ecuadorian Executive Decree No. 165 in August...