J.D. JOSÉ MEYTHALER
Senior Partner & President
Senior Partner of the firm and trial lawyer since 1988.
Head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department and of the Intellectual Property Litigation Department.
José is considered one of the most experienced lawyers in national and international litigation and arbitration.
He has been a litigator in Ecuador and abroad for several companies, including: Chevron, Shell, Ciba Geigy, Syngenta, Novartis, Baxter, Bayer, Pfizer, Merck, Conecel, Global Recovery Group, Sanofi, Philip Morris, Stendhal, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson and others. They include civil litigation, commercial litigation, domestic and investment arbitration, intellectual property and market defence.
PRACTICE AREAS
Public Law
Business Law
Competition Law
Intellectual property
Litigation
Life & Science
National and International Arbitration
Mediation and alternative dispute resolution
OUTSTANDING POSITIONS
Among the functions, he has performed are the following:
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He has been a professor for 15 years in the Faculties of Jurisprudence of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Central University of Quito, University of the Americas, San Francisco de Quito, and SEK International.
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Deputy for the Province of Pichincha;
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Ex officio director of the Ecuadorian American Chamber of Quito;
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General Manager of Shell Compañía de Petróleo del Ecuador SA;
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Member of the Board of Directors of the Ecuadorian Institute of Intellectual Property, currently SENADI;
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Founding Director of the Ecuadorian Association of Phonogram Producers ASOTEC;
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Member of the Ecuadorian Institute of Roman Law and the Ecuadorian Institute of Tax Law.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
He has given lectures at several foreign universities, such as the Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Austral University in Buenos Aires, Externado in Colombia, UNAM in Mexico, among others.
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He has participated in several international events on arbitration and has given conferences on the subject in Peru under the auspices of the Peruvian Institute of Arbitration.
He is a member of Latin American International Arbitration and arbitrator judge of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Ecuadorian American Chamber of Commerce AMCHAM.
LANGUAGES
Spanish and English.
