Óscar Del Brutto Andrade

Practice Areas

Óscar Del Brutto is a partner at Coronel & Pérez. His professional activity focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration, both local and international, as well as corporate and contractual matters. He is a professor of Law of Obligations at the Faculty of Law, Politics and Development of the University of Specialties Espíritu Santo. He is also a columnist for the newspaper El Universo.

Experience

Arbitration & Litigation

  • Member of the team that produced several expert reports presented within arbitrations and legal proceedings brought by Chevron Corporation and Texaco Petroleum Company against the Republic of Ecuador.
  • Member of the team that produced several expert reports in the ICSID arbitration followed by Occidental Petroleum against the Republic of Ecuador.
  • Member of the team that represented a US bank and later the FDIC in an international arbitration against a New York investment fund that concluded with an award favorable to the FDIC.
  • Member of the team that represented a local construction company in an arbitration against a state contractor.
  • Member of the team that represented a German citizen in a moral damage trial against an Ecuadorian financial institution.

Corporate Law and M&A

  • Main external lawyer for several years of a multinational dedicated to the sale of chemical products for construction.
  • Member of the team that advised a US company in the purchase of a cocoa farm in Ecuador.

 

Credentials and Memberships

  • Member of the Ecuadorian Lawyers Forum (2010)

 

Education

  • Vanderbilt University School of Law; LL.M. (2020)
  • University of Pennsylvania School of Law; LL.M. (2014)
  • Santiago de Guayaquil Catholic University; Lawyer (2010)

 

Publications

  • The concept of cause of the contract in the Civil Code of Bello: the Ecuadorian experience. Iuris Dictio, No. 22.
  • Requirements for civil liability for medical malpractice to proceed. Ecuadorian Journal of Neurology, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2018.
  • Dementia and law. The legal role of the neurologist. Ecuadorian Journal of Neurology, No. 24, No. 1-3, 2015.
  • Nullity and Inexistence of Legal Acts in Ecuadorian Private Law (II), Ius Humani Law Review, 2012.
  • Nullity and Inexistence of Legal Acts in Ecuadorian Private Law (I), Ius Humani Law Review, 2010.

 

Academic Career

  • Santiago de Guayaquil Catholic University; Professor of Civil Law Contracts, Faculty of Law (2014).
  • Santiago de Guayaquil Catholic University; Professor of Civil Law Obligations, Faculty of Law (2015-2016).
  • Espíritu Santo University of Specialties; Professor of Civil Law Obligations, Faculty of Law, Politics and Development (2016-present).
  • Espíritu Santo University of Specialties; Professor of Corporate Law, Faculty of Law, Politics and Development (2016-2019)

 

Languages

  • Spanish
  • English