ECUADOR Law and Practice Contributed by: Roque Bernardo Bustamante and Claudia Bustamante, Flor Bustamante Pizarro & Hurtado
Flor Bustamante Pizarro & Hurtado has a team of 15 senior partners and 25 attorneys, offer - ing multidisciplinary advice for carrying out pe - troleum, energy, and mining projects. Headed by Roque Bustamante, the mining law team is composed of eight lawyers. Ecuador, a country blessed with a massive amount of natural re- sources, and it relies tremendously upon those resources. Nonetheless, investments in natural resources are subject to unstable political and economic scenarios, so the firm begins with a legal and financial analysis of each project, an -
ticipating the potential risks during execution. The team’s experience enables it to find the best investment opportunities and to maintain a stable and reliable projection for each project. It always offers clients assistance for warrant - ing stability and balance, starting with the ini - tial phase of acquisition, up to the completion of the negotiation, exploration and production phases. The firm designs legal strategies to pro - tect clients’ interests during the entire process, always looking to safeguard their investments.
Authors
Roque Bernardo Bustamante is a senior partner at Flor Bustamante Pizarro & Hurtado and the head of the natural resources department, with a wealth of experience in the
Claudia Bustamante is an associate lawyer at Flor Bustamante Pizarro & Hurtado who has focused her practice on
non-renewable natural resources, especially in providing legal services to multinational mining companies.
practice areas of oil and gas, mining and the environment. He is a member of the Quito Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Ecuador Mines Chamber, and lectured as a professor of economic law at the Universidad De Las Américas in Quito from 2012 to 2017. A knowledgeable practitioner, Roque has been contributing to industry publications for many years, particularly on the subject of natural resources and environmental topics.
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