Experience
Representative experience
Recent matters handled by the firm and its partners. Under professional confidentiality, we do not identify our clients.
Legal
Telecommunications · Regulatory
Continuity of a telecommunications operator’s operating licenses before ARCOTEL
Free trade zones · Regulatory
Legal structuring of the first free trade zone under the new regime
Fisheries · Administrative and property
Defense of title to a fishing property against an overlapping land grant
Manufacturing · Contracts
Supply agreement with advance payments and guarantees for a manufacturing company
Insurance · Commercial
Commercial referral alliance with insurance brokers
Media · Corporate
Corporate proceeding before the Superintendency of Companies for a media group
Oil · Corporate
Incorporation of a consortium for oil operations
Tax and transfer pricing
Consumer goods · Tax controversy
Full defense in an income tax audit reviewing transactions of more than USD 60 million
Proposed assessments of more than USD 10 million neutralized during the audit
Fishing industry · Multi-year controversy
Defense against the reclassification of accounting accounts over three fiscal years, with a strategy for each year
Settlement route under way for one of the years
Agricultural exports · Ecuador and Chile
Export pricing to a related party in Chile, coordinated with the Chilean tax authority’s review, and defense of reporting differences of about USD 2 million per year
Defense ongoing for two fiscal years
Transport · Compliance
Challenge to a related-party transactions filing obligation the SRI sought to impose
The SRI closed the case without imposing the obligation or any penalty
Floriculture · Transfer pricing
An SRI audit of nearly eighteen months into a flower exporter’s transfer pricing report
Closed with no transfer pricing adjustment
Oil · International structuring
Tax and transfer pricing structure for intercompany services, applying a double tax treaty
The correct characterization of the transaction was upheld before the SRI
Partners’ prior experience
Fisheries · Transfer pricing
A USD 8 million transfer pricing adjustment against a fishing company
Reduced to USD 3 million at the administrative stage; judgment with no adjustment, now on cassation
Fisheries · Compliance
Remediation of a transfer pricing report prepared by a foreign adviser, with penalty exposure
Report filed in line with Ecuadorian rules, with no penalty
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