Education: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (J.D., 1992). Professor: Universidad de las Américas, Corporate Law, 2000-2001; Pontíficia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Commercial Law, 1993-1994 and Foreign Investment, 1995.

Experience: Founding Partner, Fabara & Compañía and previously Larreátegui & Fabara, 1987 ; President and Vicepresident, Ecuadorian-Colombian Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ecuador, 2000-2003 and 2005-2006; Executive Director, Council on International Trade and Investments, 2003; Director, Administrative and Financial Department of the Vice Presidency of the Republic of Ecuador, 1984-1986.

Member: International Trademark Association (INTA); Interamerican Association of Industrial Property (ASIPI); Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Industrielle (AIPPI); Interamerican Bar Association (IBA); The European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA); Licensing Executives Society Colombia/Ecuador/Perú (LES); American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).

Languages: Spanish and English.

Practice Areas: Foreign Investment; Mining and Oil; Energy Law; Commercial Law; Intellectual Property Law, Telecommunications law.