Lawyers
Dr. Sonia Merlyn Sacoto
PHD in civil rights
She is the founding partner of the law firm Consult-Loi
She is a litigating lawyer that specializes in civil law and Family, Childhood and Adolescence law.
Degrees:
Graduated from La Condamine Quito (1990) Lawyer and Doctor in Jurisprudence by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (1995-1996). Best graduate from the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (1995-1996). Fourth Level Doctorate Degree (PHD). Thesis on Civil Law with a publication mention, Universidad Católica de Lima, 2011.
Teaching Experience:
Jurisprudence Faculty Professor, Chair of Legal Subjects in PUCE since 1996 until present date. Professor for “New Processes for Family, Childhood and Adolescence” for the Specialization Degree on New Civil Procedural Laws at Universidad Andina from the year 2006 until the present. Guest Professor for the doctorate of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) (2007).
Legislative Experience:
Qualified Reader for the Project for the Ecuadorian Family Code (1999) a Delegate member for the Civil Code Reform Drafting Commission for CONESUP (2008-2009) Framer for the Reform Project in regard to Adoptions (2011) Delegate observer for the General Process Code Reforms, second version (2011) Member of the drafting consulting team for feedback from the Project for the General Process Code.
Professional Experience:
Practicing lawyer, owner of Consult-Loi Law Firm, experts in Family, Children and Adolescent law.
Legal Expert Experience has been qualified as an expert on Family Legislation by the Eastern District Court, New York, USA, (2016).
Carolina León Hurtado
Associate lawyer at Consult-Loi
Law Firm for family, women, children and adolescent affairs
Attorney for the Courts and Tribunals of the Republic of Ecuador, of Las Americas University. With experience in Civil, Family, children and Adolescent rights. English proficiency. Has taken courses in Human Rights and applying the Organic General Processes Code.
Graduated from the UNAM oral litigation under COGEP.
Francisca Paola Carrera Cadena
Legal assistant
Basic legal procedures
• Master in Family Law. International University of La Rioja. (Online course)
• Lawyer of the courts and tribunals of the Republic of Ecuador.
Central University of Ecuador. (In person)
• Bachelor of Science.
Brother Miguel Private Educational Unit. (In person)
• Obligations, applicable regulations, contractual phases, design of clauses and execution of contracts
Darwin Palacios
Legal Assistant
Legal Proceedings
• Central University of Ecuador – Faculty of Jurisprudence, Political and Social Sciences – Law School. Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador.
• DIPLOMA IN CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE: Expert mention in constitutionality control. Latin American Institute for Legal Research and Training (LatinIuris).
• Language Institute of the Central University of Ecuador.
Proficiency in English.
Johanna Nathaly Guambo Curipallo
Legal assistant
Legal proceedings
• Student of the Faculty of Jurisprudence in the Law School
• Central University of Ecuador – Pichincha – Quito (Jurisprudence – Law)
Paolo Cusimano
Legal Assistant
Legal Proceedings
Experience:
I am a final-year law student at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) with a major in psychology. At the same time, I am in various management and leadership positions at the University, as well as in the teaching assistant program.
Andrew Paz Santillán
Legal assistant
Legal proceedings
Experience:
Law student at the University of the Americas; subspecialization in Commercial Law. Experience in Procedural Law, Civil Law and Family Law, Women, Children and Adolescents.
Jéssica Liliana Usinia Sailema
Administrative Assistant
Logistic management arrangements
Experience:
Schedule management, filing, customer service and billing. Proficient in Word, Excel, web browsing, social networks. Technical, Commerce and Administrative Secondary Diploma (Computer Sciences).
Our Strategic Allies
Family businesses / Protection of family assets
Abg. Pamela Morillo Jaramillo
Strategic Alliance
- Law Science Lawyer by Universidad Internacional del Ecuador and Law Science Degree (1.999) by Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
- As part of her educational background she has participated in many workshops and training courses nationwide and overseas, among others: Tax Actualization, Tax Reforms, Income Tax Reforms, VAT, Special Consumption Tax and other Taxes. (Deloitte & Touche Ecuador & Moore Stephens Profile), Transfer Prices (Deloitte & Touche International México, October 2001.). Latin America Conferences of Tax Law in Ecuador & Colombia, Colomiba Conferences in Tax Law (ICDT) and Nationwide Conferences in Tax Law. (IEDT). Accounting Courses – Cámara de Comercio de Quito & Accounting Course of the S.A.P. System, Courses of Mediation & Arbitration, Community Law and Intellectual Property, among others.
- System Management: windows & operative systems, Internet tools, legal systems FIEL & SILEC & SAP accounting system.
- Partner of MMJ LAWYERS – Practice Lawyer and Legal & Tax Consultant in nationwide and overseas companies. From 2010 until current.
- Specialist in Tax Law and Corporate Consultancy, with experience of more than 22 years in these fields. She has provided her professional services to prestigious legal & tax services companies such as Ribadeneira & Abogados (Manager of the Legal & Tax Area), Deloitte & Touche (Manager of the Legal & Tax Area), González Peñaherrera & Abogados Asociados (Associated Lawyer), Moore Stephens Profile (Lawyer), Larreategui & Fabara (currently Estudio Jurídico Fabara), Diners Club del Ecuador.
- Her professional experience is focused in the following areas: tax, customs, corporate, public & private contracts, labor and oil companies, providing consultancy to different companies nationwide and overseas and multinational companies in the following fields: industrial, commercial, construction, services, automotive, exportation e importation, maritime, hydroelectric, flowers, poultry, international cargo, mail, oil, mining, health, among others.
- Preparation and presentation of material for workshops in the legal and tax field. Instructor in the Business School of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
- Member of the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Derecho Tributario, Secretaria General of the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Derecho Tributario from 2005 to 2007, Directora de Admisiones, Directora Alterna del IEDT in 2011 & 2012. During 2003, was a teacher in the Escuela Politécnica del Ejército (ESPE), in: Derecho Tributario, Derecho Societario, Derecho Mercantil & Derecho Laboral.
- Notaria Suplente of the Cantón Quito assigned by the Consejo Nacional de la Judicatura. From August 2013 until December 2013.
Domestic Violence
Sheyla Cárdenas
Doctor in Jurisprudence
Strategic Alliance
Lawyer specialized in penal law
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Studies
- Got her degree as a lawyer and Doctor of Jurisprudence in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (1999). Has also a Diploma as Senior Tax Specialist issued by Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (2001) and has undertaken studies on Leadership and Management Skills at Tecnológico de Monterrey (2007).
Catalina Escobar Castro
Strategic Ally in Ambato
Intrafamily violence
Lawyer of the Courts of the Republic by the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. Magister in University Teaching mention in Legal Sciences. Specialist in Administrative Law from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Doctor Candidate at the Pontifical Catholic University Santa María de los Buenos Aires – Argentina
Migration / Foreign Affairs
Elizabeth Cabrera
Strategic Alliance