Expertise Advisor Abogados

MSI's Ecuador law member Expertise Advisor Abogados highlights the urgent new renewable energy law as a crucial step towards energy stability and investment opportunities amid Ecuador’s energy crisis.

MSI's Ecuador law firm member Expertise Advisor Abogados is delighted to welcome two new associate attorneys, Melissa Cabanilla Hernández and Juan Carlos Escobar Vallejo.

Guillermo Lasso´s government and the party “CREO” are currently in charge of the Ecuadorian government (since 24 May 2021, after its triumph in the presidential elections). The arrival of a center-right president puts investors and international markets in the spotlight, placing Ecuador as an attractive destination to invest. MSI's Ecuador law member Expertiseadvisor Abogados provides further insight.

Through Executive Decree No. 1017, on March 16, the President of the Republic declared a state of emergency by national disaster in the Ecuadorian territory due to the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country and the pandemic declaration of COVID-19 by the World Health Organization. MSI's Ecuador law member Expertiseadvisor Abogados summarises the measures taken.

On Wednesday, May 30, Quito hosted the 2018 Latin American Cities Conferences of the Council of the Americas, a meeting in which MSI's Ecuador law member Expertise Advisor Abogados participated and which was intended to promote the change of focus in Ecuador's economic policy in order to attract private investment. Gitty Villarroel Moreno from Expertise Advisor Abogados summarises the key points of the conference.

After nearly a decade in which Ecuador changed the way it invites investors to its oil exploration, exploitation and refining projects, preferring relations with state-owned companies selected directly without the sieve of competition and, after most of its conflicts with foreign companies have been resolved (in some cases at high cost to the country), Ecuador is seeking to modify its methods to generate attraction towards the most important source of income for its economy. MSI's Ecuadorian law member Expertiseadvisor Abogados provides further information.