BIOGRAPHY

Esteban Torres Cobo (1989) is a lawyer who graduated from Universidad San Francisco (USFQ) (2013) and holds a Master's degree in Commercial Litigation and Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London (2016). He has completed specialized courses in economic analysis of law and European law in the United States and Spain. He is a postgraduate professor at several universities in Ecuador. He founded Estudio Torres Cobo in Quito (2013) and has participated in constitutional and civil arbitrations and litigation. He speaks and writes in Spanish and English.

He is currently not affiliated with the law firm as he is a member of the National Assembly and president of the Constitutional Amendments Committee, and a member of the Justice Committee. Until November 2024, he served as Vice Minister of the Interior. He also served as a member of the National Assembly of Ecuador for the province of Tungurahua (2019-2023), where he held the positions of Vice President of the Assembly, member of the Legislative Administration Council (CAL), Head of the Parliamentary Caucus, and member of the Committees on Justice, Constitutional Amendments, Sovereignty, and Production. He was also the lead questioner in the impeachment trial of the President of the Republic in 2023.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Arbitration and civil, commercial, administrative, and constitutional litigation. Corporate law advice, contracts, and national and international legal prospects and political risk analysis.

LANGUAGES

Spanish and English