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Banco de Guayaquil receives IADB loan

Wednesday, 1st February

Ecuador’s Pérez, Bustamante & Ponce Abogados and US firm Andrews Kurth LLP have helped the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) grant a subordinated loan to Ecuador’s Banco de Guayaquil.

Pichincha secures two development bank loans

Friday, 27th January

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has advised Ecuador’s Banco Pichincha on two separate loan agreements with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Netherlands’ development bank.
Alvaro Galindo

Dechert hires Ecuadorean government lawyer

Thursday, 26th January

Alvaro Galindo, former head of international arbitration at Ecuador's attorney general's office, has joined Dechert in Washington, DC.

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