Who We Are

Your trusted legal ally in Ecuador

At Cazar Pesántez Abogados, we believe that every client is unique. Our commitment is to provide personalized, ethical, and effective legal solutions, backed by more than 30 years of combined experience in corporate, family, and healthcare law.

Special Solutions

Familex supports business families in succession planning, asset structuring, and governance. Our goal is to ensure business continuity and harmony across generations.

Backoffice Legal

Backoffice Legal enables companies to delegate the management of their legal obligations and operations to an expert team, reducing costs and response times.
DOCTORISK® is designed to legally safeguard medical practice through strategic prevention, regulatory compliance, and specialized technical–legal assistance.

Specialized Services

Criminal Law

Technical Defense and Strategic Representation in Criminal Proceedings

We provide comprehensive, technical, and ethical criminal defense at all stages of the process. We represent individuals, professionals, and companies in prosecutorial investigations, hearings, and oral trials, ensuring full respect for constitutional guarantees.

Our experience covers economic crimes, tax offenses, medical criminal liability, property-related crimes, and corporate criminal liability.

In addition, we advise on the preventive management of corporate criminal risk by reviewing contracts, internal policies, and administrative acts to avoid future contingencies.

In every case, our objective is clear: to defend our clients’ freedom, honor, and reputation with legal rigor and human sensitivity.

Family Law

Legal Protection of Family Relationships, Assets, and Legacy Continuity

We advise and represent our clients in all matters related to Family Law, with a comprehensive approach that prioritizes empathy, confidentiality, and effective conflict resolution.

We intervene in divorce proceedings, separation of assets, liquidation of the marital estate, custody, visitation rights, and the determination of child support, both judicially and extrajudicially.

In inheritance and succession matters, we provide support in advance estate planning, drafting of wills, declarations of heirs, and asset distribution, always seeking to preserve family harmony and protect family wealth.

We act with a human-centered approach, combined with the technical rigor that each case requires.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods

Mediation, negotiation, and arbitration as effective tools for dispute resolution

We promote agile and efficient solutions through alternative methods that avoid the time and costs associated with litigation.

We assist our clients in mediation processes, out-of-court negotiations, and national and international arbitration proceedings, in accordance with Ecuadorian regulations and the rules of the country’s leading mediation and arbitration centers.

Our approach seeks to preserve personal and commercial relationships, protect reputation, and achieve sustainable, legally sound agreements.

Litigation

Defense and Representation in Judicial or Administrative Disputes

We represent our clients before courts and administrative authorities nationwide, applying a methodology based on prior case analysis, risk assessment, and the design of an appropriate procedural strategy.

Our team combines legal expertise with a practical mindset, enabling efficient litigation with a strong focus on results.

We act in civil, family, commercial, labor, administrative, criminal, corporate, and medical–legal disputes, with strategies aligned to each client’s specific interests.

Our commitment is to provide a solid, structured, and transparent defense, focused on achieving effective solutions—not only favorable rulings.

Business / Corporate Law

Comprehensive Legal Advisory for Business and Corporate Management

We provide ongoing legal support to companies throughout their entire lifecycle, including corporate matters (incorporation and amendments), restructuring, corporate governance, contracts, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, and labor relations.

We work under flexible service models, ranging from specific advisory engagements to framework agreements, integrating preventive, operational, and strategic solutions that strengthen the company’s legal certainty.

Our goal is for the legal function to become a strategic ally of business management.

Private Asset Law

Contracts, Civil Liability, Tax Matters, and Property Rights

We provide legal advice in civil law matters with a practical approach, particularly in the drafting, interpretation, and enforcement of contracts; tax matters; asset management; and contractual and non-contractual civil liability.

We offer legal solutions aimed at preventing disputes and ensuring the protection of personal or family assets.

Compliance and Legal Risk Prevention

Compliance Systems, Corporate Ethics, and Legal Risk Management

We design and implement compliance programs tailored to each organization, focused on the prevention of money laundering, corporate criminal liability, regulatory non-compliance, and reputational risks.

Through internal audits, compliance matrices, and training for executives and employees, we help companies strengthen a culture of integrity and transparency.

Our objective is to transform compliance into a competitive advantage and a guarantee of long-term legal and reputational sustainability.

Testimonials

Stories that support our experience

25

June

Company regularization

With the BACKOFFICE LEGAL service from Cazar | Pesántez, we were able to fully regularize our exporting company, which was facing observations from the Superintendence due to outdated financial statements, powers of attorney, and corporate books. The assigned legal team identified risks, resolved outstanding issues, and restored our ability to access credit and investment without […]

13

January

Medical malpractice at a private hospital

Thanks to Cazar | Pesántez, our gynecologist‑obstetrician was able to prove that she acted in accordance with lex artis during a high‑risk delivery, resulting in the dismissal of the criminal proceedings that sought to hold her liable for alleged negligent homicide. Their DOCTORISK® protocol provided us with a technical, organized, and transparent defense, and they […]

Legal Team

Managing Partner

Senior Attorney / Head of the Corporate Law Practice / FAMILEX

Legal Updates

Legal insights for companies, families, and healthcare professionals

Locations
Quito Office: Japón Street E39-65 and Alfonso Pereira. Zaigen Building. 10th Floor – Office 1012, Quito
Manta Office: M2 Street between Avenue 24 and C.23, Manta Business Center Building. 6th Floor, Office 604, Manta