Dispute Resolution
Ana Isabel is a member of the firm’s dispute resolution practice area and specializes in commercial, extra-contractual and constitutional litigation. She has worked on numerous arbitration proceedings under ICC, ICSID, LCIA and AAA rules. She advises and represents clients in the oil & gas, mining, energy and construction sectors.
She acted as second chair at the Constitutional Court of Ecuador, forming part of the magistrate work teams. Her work focused on legal research and preparing technical draft rulings and resolutions on matters of national importance in the areas of arbitration, civil procedure, oil and gas, construction, and corporate law.
Ana Isabel holds a master’s degree in procedural law from the University of Salamanca (2022) and a LL.M. from Harvard Law School (2024). She subsequently worked in the International Arbitration practice at the New York office of the prestigious firm Covington & Burling.
Spanish
English
Ecuador
Pérez Bustamante & Ponce, Associate (2026 - present).
Covington & Burling, Global Visiting Lawyer, New York, United States (2024 - 2025).
Constitutional Court of Ecuador, Legal Advisor 2, Quito, Ecuador (2021 - 2023).
Pérez Bustamante & Ponce, Associate (2018 - 2021).
Harvard Law School, LL.M., Boston, United States (2024).
University of Salamanca (online), Master’s in Procedural Law, Quito, Ecuador (2021), valedictorian.
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Lawyer, Quito, Ecuador (2019), summa cum laude.
Ecuadorian Institute of Arbitration, Quito, Ecuador.
ArbitralWomen, UK.
Spanish and Ibero-American Arbitration Club (CEIA), Madrid, Spain.
Arbitration and Autonomy: Analysis of judicial and constitutional control mechanisms of the arbitral award (Spanish)
Ludicium: Journal of Procedural Law, Salamanca, Spain, 2021.
Decisiones arbitrales objeto de acción extraordinaria de protección (Spanish).
Revista Ecuatoriana de Arbitraje: Collective work, Quito, Ecuador. Pending publication.
Med-arb, arb-med y arb-med-arb a la luz de la legislación ecuatoriana (Spanish).
USFQ Law Review, Quito, Ecuador, 2018.
https://revistas.usfq.edu.ec/index.php/lawreview/article/view/1216