Our team primarily focuses on the following transactions:
Corporate Financing: This involves financial transactions within companies, such as issuing new shares or shares with issuance premiums, bonds, and other types of securities; as well as structuring corporate loans and credits, complex financing operations, and highly sophisticated combined transactions, according to the specifics of each case. We ensure that these transactions comply with relevant laws and protect the interests of investors and shareholders.
Loans and Credits: We focus on developing loan agreements, credit lines, and other forms of personal and business financing, including a thorough analysis of aspects such as loan conditions, required guarantees, interest rates, and the rights and responsibilities of the involved parties.
Banking and Fintech Law: We focus on the regulation of banking activities and of other financial institutions, especially fintech companies, which cover a broad digital market and require an understanding of the specific regulatory framework, starting from their classification with regulatory bodies and financial dispute resolution organizations.
Project Financing: We handle the structuring and regulation of financing for large infrastructure projects, asset acquisition, real estate development, and projects in the areas of energy, mining, construction, and generally across all industrial sectors. This field includes complex contracts, financial guarantees, trust structuring, and specific regulatory compliance for each type of project.
International Financing: We have the experience and commercial relationships needed to advise and support our clients in cross-border financial transactions, including international trade financing, multinational and regional projects, as well as the local implementation of programs with multilateral and collateral organizations.
Regulation of Financial Markets: We advise local and foreign companies on the negotiation of securities, financial derivatives, investment funds, and the key behaviors and regulations of market participants and financial practices, to provide appropriate counsel to our clients and ensure compliance with applicable regulations.
AVL has professionals with proven knowledge and experience in structuring local and international financing projects, with the capacity to represent private and public corporate interests before local, international banks, and multilateral financial entities. Our team is known for providing high-level services, from the strategic planning phase, negotiation, and closing of contracts for the structuring of guarantees.
We also have experience in complex transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, project financing, financial restructuring, and securities issuance, aiming to maximize benefits for our clients, as well as providing strategic advice and tax planning, and contract development.
At AVL we stay updated on legislative changes, market trends, and emerging financial practices.
Chambers and Partners.
Jorge Cevallos
Head of department Jorge Alfonso Cevallos Carrera of AVL Abogados is well regarded by a market commentator who says that “he is an effective and decent lawyer,” adding: “It is a pleasure to work with him.” Another interviewee also characterizes him as “an extremely detailed lawyer.”
Partner and head of department Jorge Alfonso Cevallos Carrera of AVL Abogados is well versed in a range of cross-border financing transactions involving Ecuador. One client comments: “Jorge Alfonso Cevallos Carrera offers outstanding work ethics and attention to detail. He is a great professional.”
Partner and head of department Jorge Alfonso Cevallos Carrera of AVL Abogados is well versed in a range of cross-border financing transactions involving Ecuador.
Strengths
“Jorge Alfonso Cevallos Carrera is very committed to his work and extremely responsive. He explains complicated legal issues clearly and efficiently.”
Chambers Latin America Guide.
Banking & Finance – 2025
“AVL Abogados do good work in the banking sector in Ecuador and provide quality and timely results.”
Jorge Cevallos
“I was pleased with local counsel Jorge Alfonso Cevallos during our transaction. He was knowledgeable, responsive and provided practical advice.”
Leaders League
Banking and finance – 2024
New investments demand new models, which, while standardized under international practices, require significant sophistication in terms of dynamics, negotiation, and implementation across various economic sectors and business models. Thus, financial law emerges as a solution to the multiple global challenges, involving a range of stakeholders whose interest is to achieve their objectives and goals through financing, from the inception of their projects, through planning and support, to the implementation of their structures and the consolidation of leverage.
