{"id":9024,"date":"2024-03-11T11:07:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T18:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/?page_id=9024"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:42:45","slug":"paula-mesias-vela","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/our-team\/paula-mesias-vela\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Mes\u00edas Vela"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Practice Areas:<\/strong> Litigation and Dispute Resolution<\/a>, Public Law, Public Procurement and Concessions<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mar\u00eda Paula concentrates her practice in conflict resolution; she represents and provides counsel for domestic and foreign clients in contentious administrative and civil lawsuits, as well as arbitral disputes.<\/p>

In her practice, she has advised several local and international companies, in addition to individuals in highly complex disputes.<\/p>

Mar\u00eda Paula is a full professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. She was Editor in Chief of the USFQ Law Review.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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  • 2025 – Present: Senior Associate. <\/strong>BUSTAMANTE FABARA.<\/li>
  • 2023 – 2025: Intermediate Associate, <\/strong>BUSTAMANTE FABARA.<\/li>
  • 2019 – 2023: Junior Associate, <\/strong>DURINI GUERRERO ABOGADOS.<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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        Paula Mes\u00edas Vela SENIOR ASSOCIATE Linkedin Envelope Hm-pdf1 Practice Areas: Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Public Law, Public Procurement and Concessions Mar\u00eda Paula concentrates her practice in conflict resolution; she represents and provides counsel for domestic and foreign clients in contentious administrative and civil lawsuits, as well as arbitral disputes. In her practice, she has advised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":8763,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9024","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14805,"href":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9024\/revisions\/14805"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bustamantefabara.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}