López Ribadeneira Mora

López Ribadeneira Mora is highly regarded for its public law practice, which excels in administrative litigation. The team is a consistent presence in public procurement-related disputes and arbitrations, along with contentious matters related to construction projects, the oil-and-gas sector, agriculture, and telecoms. Practice head Daniel López Suárez regularly represents clients in proceedings against public sector and state entities, whilst also being prominent in arbitration. Fellow founding partner Sebastián Mora focuses on administrative disputes, particularly those related to public procurement; while María de Lourdes Maldonado is an up-and-coming younger partner whose broad practice centres on judicial litigation in constitutional, civil, commercial, labour, administrative and IP matters; she is also an arbitrator of the Quito Chamber of Commerce's Arbitration Centre.