Cevallos, Casals, Balseca & Bilbao

Firm Overview:
Cevallos Casals Balseca & Bilbao Abogados is a law firm whose purpose is to offer high-quality legal services by providing legal viability to its clients’ businesses. To do this, it employs a two-fold comprehensive legal strategy. First, a precautionary phase by which the firm identifies possible risks in its client’s entrepreneurship; second, a mitigating stage in which it generates pragmatic solutions once its client’s business is unfolding. The axis by which this strategy works is its commitment and understanding of the dynamics and nature of its client’s business.

The firm:
Cevallos Casals Balseca & Bilbao Abogados’ precautionary phase includes monitoring the contracts’ enforcement to detect potential risks, delays, and arguments of non-compliance from the contracting entity. It also includes training for all project managers and salesclerks to prevent potential economic risk. When dealing with public procurement, the precautionary phase involves the preparation of offers and the negotiation of contracts always keeping in mind the protection of their client’s best interest according to the nature of their business. Overall, its firm mission is to cultivate a culture of risks prevention.

The mitigating phase aims to reduce economic contingencies by designing procedures which allow enforcing contracts effectively. Many of its clients have hired its services once their contracts are unfolding with some difficulties. Its legal advice has enabled them to properly execute their legal obligations by challenging penalties and by identifying viable ways for them to fulfil said requirements and at the same time reducing costs in such transactions.

Finally, the firm can provide high-quality legal services by getting to know its client’s business in detail. Indeed, it commits itself to accurately understand the dynamics of its client’s business operations because it believes this is the only way to provide the best possible legal advice.

Daniela Cevallos, Roberto Bilbao, and Carlos Julio Balseca created CC&B Abogados. The three partners were in-house lawyers of renowned companies in Ecuador. This meant that the three of them had direct contact with the day-to-day operations of each of the companies. From this vantage point, it understood the importance of knowing the nature of the business of its clients to be better equipped to identify their particular needs and to address their demands accurately, tackle their problems and find adequate solutions. It is a ’boutique’ firm that tailors its legal services according to its clients’ needs. The firm’s goal is to provide clients with close and satisfactory legal support.