Johana Pesántez Benítez

Managing Partner

A strategic and academic leader whose solid legal training and experience in public service strengthen the firm’s institutional leadership, ethical positioning, and vision of legal excellence. As senior partner and general manager, her role focuses on key decision-making, the development of new practice areas, representing the firm before strategic partners, and the overall supervision of its operations, ensuring the quality of legal services, innovation, and social responsibility.

- Areas of Specialization

Criminal Law / Corporate Law / Family Law

- Academic Background and Recognitions

Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Postgraduate studies in Roman Law at La Sapienza University of Rome, and in “Current Programs in Criminal Law and Criminology” at Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain. Professor of Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.