Bio
Carla is part of the firm’s dispute resolution, domestic and international arbitration, highly regulated sectors, and public law departments. Her work includes advising, consulting, and representing clients in administrative, civil, construction, energy, telecommunications, commercial, and corporate disputes. Carla has experience in structuring and protecting foreign investments, administrative claims, consulting, and litigation.
Carla has combined her practice with professional activities that have allowed her to promote the knowledge and modernization of arbitration in Ecuador and Latin America.
She is the representative for Latin America of the Young Arbitration and ADR Forum (YAAF) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) 2024-2026. Since 2020, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Ecuadorian Very Young Arbitration Practitioners – ECUVYAP.
She is secretary of the Ecuadorian Chapter of the Spanish and Ibero-American Arbitration Club and is a member of the organizing committee of the National Arbitration Competition organized by the Ecuadorian American Chamber of Commerce and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Carla was Arbitrator Intelligence’s representative for Latin America (2020 period).
She completed her LLM at Stanford University with a specialization in International Economic Law, Business, and Policy and was part of the executive committee of the Stanford Arbitration Association.
Carla did her undergraduate studies at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, where she had an outstanding participation as editor-in-chief of the USFQ Law Review; she was assistant professor of objects of law, legal business, and inheritance law; she collaborated in the research and publication of books on civil law at the Faculty of Jurisprudence and was a participant and coach of the arbitration team of Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Currently, she is a professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in the subjects of oral litigation and Objects of Law.