Daniel Castelo

Practice Areas

Compliance

Competition

Career

Daniel has 15 years of professional experience and is currently part of the competition, data protection, and compliance areas of BUSTAMANTE FABARA.

Daniel has worked 15 years in competition law assessing clients in the subject and representing them before the competition authority and courts of law. He has extensive experience in merger control filings, dominant position abuse, anticompetitive agreements, unfair competition investigation processes, and due diligences.

Daniel has been widely recognized by clients and legal rankings agencies as a leading lawyer in competition law.

Daniel is the Director of two, relatively new areas at BUSTAMANTE FABARA: data privacy and compliance. He has led the creation and operation of both areas to provide the best advice to BUSTAMANTE FABARA´s clients. Daniel´s activity in these areas involves the implementation and continuous advice of Ecuadorian legislation on data protection and compliance.

Professional Memberships

Ecuadorian Arbitration Institute, since 2017.

International Bar Association (IBA), since 2018.

Ecuadorian Institute of Procedural Law, since 2018.

Experience

2021 – Current: Director, BUSTAMANTE FABARA.

2015 – 2021: Senior Associate, FABARA ABOGADOS

2010 – 2015: Associate, FABARA ABOGADOS

2008 – 2009: Analyst, MINISTRY OF FOREIGN RELATIONS.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Ecuador

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English

Education