She has 15 years of professional experience in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. Her professional practice is focused on the area of public law, sponsoring processes of a constitutional nature, mainly protection actions, habeas data, access to public information, as well as extraordinary protection actions. She has experience in administrative processes, as well as administrative litigation.

Maria Cristina has been an advisor to Public Companies, in the development of internal regulations, as well as in public contracting processes. She has participated in consultancies with Decentralized Autonomous Governments in the preparation of Ordinances, as well as their codification.

She is an advisor to various Private Companies in compliance with the public regulatory framework, and within her client portfolio are several Business Families whom she advises from the Family Office department that she co-leads with one of her Partners in the Firm. She has extensive knowledge of litigation in both administrative and judicial settings and experience in audit processes and special examinations of the State Comptroller General’s Office. She has been invited to participate in different Symposiums as a keynote speaker in topics such as Human Rights, Constitutional Law, as well as Bioethics. She was a professor of the Constitutional Law and Constitutional Clinic at the University of Azuay for 13 years and directed the Master’s Program in Constitutional Law the same institution.

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Practice areas

Constitutional and Administrative Litigation, Human Rights. Family Office.-

Studies

Lawyer from the University of Azuay and Honorato Vázquez award as the best graduate of her class. -
Master's degree (LLM) with a mention in Constitutional Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.-
Diploma in Constitutional Law in depth from Universidad San Francisco de Quito.-

Languages

Spanish and English-