Roberto González Torre

Roberto González Torre holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (1994) and a Doctorate in Jurisprudence (1996) from the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil (Ecuador). He also earned a Master’s Degree in International Business Law from the University of Barcelona and OBS (2019). He has been a partner at Consulegis Abogados, with offices in Quito and Guayaquil, since 2004. He has served as an instructor for the Latin American Trust Committee (COLAFI), an entity affiliated with the Latin American Federation of Banks (FELABAN). He was appointed Delegate of two Presidents of the Republic to the National Securities Council and also served as a regulatory advisor on securities market regulations to the Superintendent of Companies from 1999 to 2003. He was Legal Advisor to the Central Bank of Ecuador from 1999 to 2005 and served as Legal Secretary to the Presidency of the Republic of Ecuador in 2005. He is also a former arbitrator of the Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce. He is the author of various essays on commercial law, contracts, and corporate law, as well as three legal books: 1) El Fideicomiso en el Derecho Civil y Comercial del Ecuador, 1996; 2) El Fideicomiso (2000); y, 3) Manual de Fideicomiso en América Latina (2010). His academic interests focus on corporate law, commercial contracts, banking contracts, and patrimonial civil law. He was the author of the 1998 Draft Law on Commercial Trusts, which was later incorporated into the Securities Market Law enacted the same year. He is a member of the Ecuadorian Academy of Corporate Law and currently serves as its President. In his professional practice, he advises individuals, international financing funds, as well as national and foreign legal entities on corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, international equipment sales contracts, commercial and patrimonial civil law, trusts, public procurement, tax consultations, banking operations, and public service concessions, among other areas. He has also advised certain public financial and policy-making institutions. He has experience in international arbitration under ICC rules.