BIOGRAPHY
Jhon Mora leads the Antitrust and Competition Department at Meythaler & Zambrano Abogados. Since 2018, he has advised businesses on antitrust compliance, commercial contracts, and the competitive risks associated with market entry, commercial strategies, and digital business models.
He represents clients in investigations and proceedings involving unfair competition, restrictive agreements, and abuse of market power, as well as administrative and judicial challenges to competition authority decisions. He has served as lead counsel in damages litigation arising from unfair competition and has secured interim relief in emergency arbitration.
His experience spans domestic and multinational companies in the pharmaceutical, telecommunications, automotive, food, chemical, agricultural, and logistics industries. He combines legal and economic analysis with litigation experience to develop defense strategies and help clients make informed business decisions.
PRACTICE AREAS
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Antitrust and unfair competition.
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Antitrust compliance.
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Digital economy and business models.
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Commercial and emergency arbitration.
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Civil and commercial litigation.
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Unfair competition damages claims.
EXPERIENCE
MEYTHALER & ZAMBRANO ABOGADOS
Head of the Department of Competition
Quito - Ecuador
2021 - Present
ANTITRUST CONSULTORES & ABOGADOS
Lawyer
Quito - Ecuador
2018
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE ANDEAN COMMUNITY
Judicial Assistant
Peru
2017
EDUCATION
Master’s Degree in Digital Economy Law
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
In progress, 2026.
Master’s Degree in Business Law
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
2023.
Master’s Degree in Procedural Law
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
2021.
Postgraduate Specialization in Procedural Law
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
2020.
Law Degree, Summa Cum Laude
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ambato Campus
2018.
Honors for the highest academic average and outstanding thesis.
CERTIFICATIONS AND ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Competition Law, Public Policy and Technology: A Complexity Perspective
Executive Education, University College London — United Kingdom
2025.
Competition Law Seminar
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
Advanced Program in Legal Research and Methodology
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
2016 — 120 hours.
Symposium on Law and New Institutional Economics
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
2016 — 100 hours.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS.
Artificial Scarcity by Design: Regulatory Barriers in Ecuador’s Pharmaceutical Price Regulation and the Loss of Healthcare Abundance
Research presented at Regulation and Abundance, John Chambers College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University
2026.
Challenges Facing Multilateralism in Advancing Environmental Technologies in a Multipolar World
Presentation at the WTO Chair Ecuador Colloquium on Trade and the Environment, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
2023.
Apuntes de Derecho de Libre Competencia
Academic coordinator and author of Chapter IX, “Anticompetitive Conduct”
Published in Spanish by Centro de Publicaciones, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
2017.
Medical Cannabis Regulation in Ecuador and the Human Right of Access to Medicines
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ambato Campus
2020.
Research also presented at conferences between 2018 and 2021.
Unfair Competition Claims: Which Authority Has Jurisdiction?
Sixth International Seminar on Procedural Law
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ambato Campus
EDUCATION
ANDES SIMÓN BOLÍVAR UNIVERSITY
Master's in Business Law
2024
ANDES SIMÓN BOLÍVAR UNIVERSITY
Master's in Procedural Law
2021
ANDES SIMÓN BOLÍVAR UNIVERSITY
Specialist in Procedural Law
2020
PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF ECUADOR
Lawyer, Summa Cum Laude
2018
LANGUAGES
Spanish and English