Oswaldo Santos Dávalos

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution, Competition and Arbitration.

Career

Oswaldo heads the Litigation and Antitrust Departments at Santos Burbano de Lara. He has participated in more than 50 arbitrations as counsel, arbitrator, or secretary, conducted under various institutional rules, such as ICSID, ICC, UNCITRAL, and those of the most important arbitration centres in Ecuador. His experience encompasses arbitration disputes in mining, construction, retail, and telecommunications, among others. He has also participated in several high-profile cases before the Ecuadorian courts involving State liability, contractual liability, and torts.

Oswaldo is also well-experienced in Competition Law matters, regularly advising some of the most important companies operating in Ecuador in matters before the Ecuadorian Competition Authority.

He is a lecturer at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where he heads the Business Law department.

Professional Memberships

Member of the board of the Ecuadorian Arbitration Institute.

Member of the Ecuadorian Corporate Law Association.

Member of the Ecuadorian Procedural Law Institute.

Vice President of the Arbitration Center of the Ecuadorian American Chamber of Commerce.

Member of the Ecuadorian Competition Law Institute.

Publications

"La acción de nulidad de los laudos arbitrales", Revista Ecuatorian de Arbitraje.

"Naturaleza de los efectos del convenio arbitral", Revista Ecuatoriana de Arbitraje.

"Introducción a la valoración de daños con aplicación al arbitraje", Revista Ecuatoriana de Arbitraje.

"Sentencia de la Corte Constitucional del Ecuador sobre la constitucionalidad de la obligación del afianzamiento tributario", Revista Foro.

Education