Juan Manuel Marchán

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Juan Manuel Marchán is an associate at Pérez Bustamante & Ponce Abogados, one of the leading law firms in Ecuador. He is actively involved in the fields mergers and acquisitions, energy, international investment and commercial arbitration.

Mr Marchan has served as Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Oil and Mines of Ecuador. He is presently a professor of International Arbitration and international law at San Francisco de Quito University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, among others.

Mr Marchan graduated as doctor at law from the Catholic University of Quito and completed an LLM programme at Columbia University School of Law. Mr Marchan is recognised in several international publications as a practitioner in litigation and arbitration practice in Ecuador, like Chambers Latin America.

Mr Marchan has written numerous publications dealing mainly with international commercial arbitration. He has been for almost ten year administrative secretary of the arbitral tribunals of the main arbitral center’s in the country.