Energy & Natural Resources
Latin America Guide 2025 : Ecuador
Band 3
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For over 23 years, our practice and four specialised partners have advised local and multinational clients in the ever-changing electricity, gas, oil, and renewable energy markets in Ecuador. Our services not only relate to energy and oil and gas law, but also cover a wide range of associated disciplines like tax, environment, planning, corporate law, project financing, M&A and dispute resolution.
Top named clients we were actively advising in the last 12 months, include Baker Hughes, ENAP, new-clients NSE and Consepetro, Ecuador TLC, Alstom, Engie and Schlumberger.
In the last year, ECIJA Ecuador opened two new branches in the most industrialised and fastest growing city in Ecuador (Manta and Cuenca), and in the last four years we have almost tripled the number of lawyers in the firm from 24 to 60.
Our work has attracted the attention of foreign companies further afield entering in the Ecuadorian market, particularly from China who are looking for acquisitions in the sector.
With new hires and with our new offices in all major cities of Ecuador, we are well positioned to cater to a growing energy sector, particularly with the new goal set by the government to increase energy production from 500,000 barrels a day to 1 million, backed by a new investment secretariat.
Chambers Review
ECIJA GPA has a solid practice group in Ecuador with a stalwart position in the hydrocarbons sector. The legal team routinely advises clients from the power and oil and gas industries on concession agreements, bidding rounds and the privatisation of related resources.
Work Highlights
- ECIJA GPA advised PACIFPETROL/PETROBELL on the process of qualification and presentation of offers for the Intracampos II oil round, an initiative led by the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Ecuador for extraction of specific oil blocks by private companies.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team at ECIJA GPA is diligent, very capable and demonstrates a strong willingness to listen to clients, choosing the path that suits them best."
"The team at ECIJA GPA is diligent, very capable and demonstrates a strong willingness to listen to clients, choosing the path that suits them best."
Notable Practitioners
Reconised practitioner Gonzalo González Galarza has long-standing experience in the energy and natural resources sector and isparticularly highly rated by interviewees for his solid oil and gas practice in Ecuador.
"Gonzalo González Galarza is a person with a lot of knowledge who quickly understands the needs of the business, driving the work to achieve the objectives."
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