Daniel López Suárez
+593 995037033
- Legal advisor and judicial and arbitral representative for national and foreign companies, as well as former public officials.
- Consultant to public sector entities and international organizations.
- Partner at LEXVALOR Abogados law firm.
- President and Partner at Corporación Legal CL Ecuador.
- Advisor to the Office of the Attorney General of the State (PGE).
- National Director of Legal Advisory at the PGE, acting.
- National Director of Human Talent Management at the PGE, acting.
- Deputy Director of the Special and Public Procurement Directorate at the PGE.
- Legal Advisor to the Vice Minister of Government.
- Legal and Administrative Coordinator of the Productive Strategies and Investment Attraction Program at CORPEI and the Ministry of Production Coordination.
- Lawyer for the Special and Public Procurement Directorates at the Attorney General's Office.
- Legal Consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
- Contributor to the World Bank for annual comparative reports on Public Procurement and Public-Private Partnerships in Ecuador.
- Current Founding Partner and Managing Partner at LÓPEZ RIBADENEIRA Abogados.
- Master's Degree in Public Procurement Law from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
- Master in Business Law from ADEN University Business School, Affiliated Center of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, and The George Washington University, School of Business.
- Litigation Skills Program, American University - Washington College of Law.
- Postgraduate in Administrative Law, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar.
- Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
- "Government Procurement Manual", February 2011.
- "Manual of Public Procurement", Second Edition, April 2016.
- "ABC Manual of the Entrepreneur, Practical Legal Guide to start a business in Ecuador, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program UNDP, CL Ecuador Legal Corporation, Alliance for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the KOMM Agency.
- Next publication: "Public Companies and Public-Private Partnerships in Ecuador", in style review.
- Daniel has published several articles in legal, business and digital media journals.
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Member of the Ecuadorian Institute of Arbitration
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Member of ALARB, Latin American Arbitration Association
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Member of the Ecuadorian Institute of Administrative Law
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Member of the Ibero-American Network of Public Procurement
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Member of the Pichincha Bar Association
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Association of the European Latin American Institute of Jurists–EULAT
Founding partner and currently managing partner of LÓPEZ RIBADENEIRA MORA Abogados, he was a partner of Lexvalor Abogados, former President and partner of Corporación Legal CL Ecuador. His experience of more than 17 years in public law, dispute resolution and contentious-administrative litigation was developed having advised several entities of the public sector, among which stands out his passage through the State Attorney General's Office, as Advisor to the Office of the Attorney General for several years.
He currently focuses his practice on arbitration and dispute resolution, especially as lawyer in administrative litigation processes, advising and sponsoring national and international companies, as well as public entities, in matters of Public Procurement, Concessions, Challenge of Glosses before the Comptroller General, Public-Private Partnerships, constitutional actions and administrative processes before Public Sector Entities.
Daniel has been hired by foreign companies, organizations and international law firms to issue opinions on Ecuadorian legislation and specific cases, as an example he was hired by one of the largest worldwide law firms to give his opinion on concession contracts and public-private partnerships in Ecuador.
Daniel has also been selected as a local practitioner and ally by international law firms to sponsor Ecuadorian public companies in international arbitration processes, as well as for public private partnerships bids.
He was selected as legal expert for taking part of the dialogues, texts generation and reviews of the drafts for several laws and regulations in Ecuador, such as Arbitration and Mediation new regulation, Code of Knowledge intellectual Property Law, Organic Administrative Code, Public procurement Law and regulations, Law of Entrepreneurship and Bankruptcy in Ecuador, among others.
Daniel is a Legal Consultant for the United Nations Development Program UNDP, Contributor to the World Bank for the annual comparative reports on Doing Business, Public Procurement and Public-Private Partnerships.
Daniel is also part of the list as Arbitrator in several Arbitration Centers in Ecuador, and have been selected as Ad Hoc Arbitrator in processes with UNCITRAL rules.