The law firm Arízaga & Co. has been structured to suit the needs of international corporations and local business that need to maintain a sound legal strategy to further their corporate goals and objectives. The firm is one of the best structured in international Business Law in Ecuador, it was founded in the year 2003 and has gathered lawyers and professionals from a variety of very important law firms and corporations. Its conception is entailed by the dynamics of globalization and the need to offer a multinational as well as a local view of the regulatory and political business environments and constraints for local and international ventures.
The firm works frequently in the forefront of current legal topics participating in the analysis, drafting and discussion of new legislation. It counsels its clients to understand and adapt to the requirements of the relevant regulatory systems, and to develop new ideas, techniques, products and processes that suit the business strategies of our customers. We are proud of our timely answer to the clients' needs and of the skills we have developed to implement creative solutions for the transcendent, as well as for the day-to-day, legal challenges.
Our team is experienced and knowledgeable on various methods of legal problem-solving including negotiation, alternative solutions and litigation. We have carefully planned the incorporation of lawyers and practice areas in order to maintain the highest standards of our legal services, as well as the firm's integrity while offering a personalized service

Our capabilities are well known in the banking and finance sectors.
We represent Our local and foreign representation of commercial banks, financial institutions, leasing companies, investment banks, financial corporations and other financial institutions includes including the whole range of activities our customers undertake, from financing to restructuring.

Our experience in mergers and acquisitions includes the representation of s S enior and subordinated lenders, partners and managers, and involves the purchase of share s from one individual partner, recapitalization, as well restructuring and other changes in a companies' financial control.
An important achievement in the area of financial regulation is to have represented several financial institutions before local regulating agencies with respect to the fusion merger of banks with other financial institutions, as well as acquisitions and other regulating works assignments .
We have provided our customers with assistance in the purchase and sale of banks, financial corporations and their subsidiaries, beyond the banking context.

We have advised represent buyers, sellers, investors, shareholders and / or partners in diverse types of corporations, already incorporated or in the process of being incorporated, both local and foreign, providing to provide an all-encompassing advice in important corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, franchises, purchase of shares and assets, capital increases, by-law s reforms, recapitalizations, reorganizations, proxy litigations, takeovers, corporate governance, etc.
We have developed a specialization in the structuring of offering corporate trust services , and in the provision of providing other trustee services to financial institutions and local corporations.

These services include not only traditional work such as documents review, regulations advice, tax advice for trusts and winding-up processes , ; but also personal deposits, employee benefits, loan guarantees, agencies, securities custody, collective investments, commercial investments management and , securitizations.

International contracting and negotiations are a fundamental aspect of our expertise and include a wide range of services and product s including and services development, adaptation, personalization, distribution and licensing , distribution and agency arrangements , including localization local and in international contexts, as well as the negotiation and execution of the corresponding international contracts that seek to guarantee the protection of all our customers' real and intangible assets in multi-country environments .

Franchise legal advising is a permanent part of our business. We are proud to have managed, for the past ten years, franchises and / or international licensing and distribution arrangements involving an extensive and diversified range of important Ecuadorian products, as well as to have provided consulting services in for obtaining international franchises to be adequately successfully set up in our Country

ARIZAGA & Co. combines its experience in the field of intellectual property law with a multidisciplinary approach that allows us to achieve efficient and creative methods to protect attain intellectual and industrial property rights protection at the local, regional and international level.
We provide companies an all-encompassing advice that starts at their intellectual assets' analysis and protection, and can extend as far as supporting them in formulating new international markets expansion strategies for new international markets .
The design, negotiation and structuring of new ventures companies and projects are an important aspect of our work, as are negotiations and litigation s related to intellectual property rights' registration, renewal and protection. If the case of warrants it, we represent clients in the support resolution of controversies related to copyrights and trademarks at the / or local, regional or international foreign level . trademarks before the respective administrative and judicial instances.
We advise our customers with respect to registered trademarks, copyrighted materials, commercial use of property, and registration and licensing for the use of patents, registered trademarks, and registration rights in product development.

Furthermore In addition , we have frequently worked with industrial property rights policies and protection, developing procedures within before the Ecuadorian Intellectual Property Institute National Directorate , to protect professional secrets, confidentiality and other specialized assets practices related thereto.

The advising in real-estate right includes a global and constructed vision, with a wide knowledge of the juridical specific norms and procedure. There are different aspects of the business that can change its conception: tax planning, contracting forms, clients expectation.

We include a professional work and legal assistance in negotiation, contracts, trusts, rights and obligations of all the involved actors: promoters, builders, buyers, sellers, national and local governments to assure ours clients satisfaction with a variety of legal formalities.

We provide technology companies an with all-encompassing advice, which starts at valuation and protection of their intellectual property assets , ' analysis and protection, and can extend as far as supporting them in developing strategies for expansion to formulating new international markets . expansion strategies.

We have worked extensively in technology contracting Contracting technology , a process that includes the design, adaptation and , personalization , for the distribution and licensing of products and services both locally and in the local and international ly. We participate in the context, as well as the negotiation and execution of corresponding international agreements, always seeking contracts that seek to safeguard and protect guarantee the protection of our Ecuadorian and foreign our client's customers' assets . and certainty of law.

We have experience in obtaining A a dministrative approvals and to obtain permits for different telecommunications activitie s s: W w e keep a close relationship with telecommunications policy regulating entities, as well as with the sector's policy - executing and regulating entities.

We provide assistance in outlining and structuring diverse international investment and co-financing mechanisms for telecommunications projects, as well as processes specialized on dispute resolution related to domain names, and the protection of Internet business, before ICANN accredited international arbitrators.

Regarding taxes, the firm renders national consultancy services (tax support) and international consultancy services (double tax treaties), legal representation in actions of all areas of the Ecuadorian tax legislation, and administrative redress before all competent bodies, such as the Ecuadorian Internal Revenue Service (SRI), municipals and the Ecuadorian Customs Corporation (CAE), and litigious actions before Fiscal District Courts and the Supreme Court of Justice.
The firm's experience in tax matters implies the development of financial products that are, from a tax point of view, appropriate for different areas comprising assets backing, financial leasing, preference shares and debt conversion. As a routine, the firm represents clients before Ecuador’s National Congress and the country's Internal Revenue Service (SRI) in connection with legal regulations and other administrative issues.

Arízaga & Co. offers legal consultancy in this area, while working jointly with our clients and investors looking for new opportunities in the energy and hydrocarbon sector. We also provide our clients with the service of registering and assessing companies, such as service and goods providers in the public and private sector.

We consult our clients in accordance with the new resolutions in the mining sector, within the regime of concessions and investment agreements in this sector.

Our firm gives consultancy and executes various procedures, studies at the pre-hiring stage, bidding, public competences before the Ecuadorian state and the entities of the public sector.

Our firm has insurance industry professionals among st its partners insurance industry professionals in general and professionals on insurance law in particular.

It is important to point out our We have extensive experience and know-how in advising insurance and reinsurance companies, insurance brokers and insurance clients producing agencies and agents, and insurance experts , in corporate matters, claims and disasters claims matters , including professional advice in administrative claims, judicial matters, extrajudicial negotiations, mediation s , and arbitration s , and procedures before different entities and bodies in charge of controlling the country's insurance industry activity.

Our relationships with international companies and law firms allow us to expand our service coverage to the international ly arena , in all aspects related to the private insurance industry.

The Firm has among its partners In this very important area of our practice, we offer services related to laws applicable to specialist s in employment and labor- related matters, including issues pertaining to the to laws that regulate relationships between employers and trade unions , as well as and to social security matters.
Our professionals have proven experience in this field and work not only on solving and managing conflicts, but also on issues related to dispute , prevention, internal organization, different ways of hiring contractual strategies employees , all with the ultimate objective of protecting our clients registering and keeping absolute control over the entire personnel's legal labor situation and assuring sound labor relations under the Law. , and of consequently providing all-encompassing advice on managing and dealing with every legal aspect related to human resources.