The corporate criminal law practice ranked Band 1 by Leaders League for six consecutive years. We defend companies and their executives and investigate fraud, with criminal lawyers in Quito and Guayaquil who have worked alongside the FBI, DHS and DEA.
When your company's reputation, its assets and the freedom of its executives are at stake, the difference is made by a team that knows how a complex criminal case is investigated, proven and defended.
A strong criminal defense starts with understanding how the authorities investigate. Our team combines more than 10 years in the U.S. criminal justice system with daily practice in Ecuador's adversarial system, and works with its own technology to get to the evidence first.
International experienceOur team has worked with the U.S. Department of Justice and its main federal criminal investigation agencies. That knowledge of how a case is built is now an advantage for your company's defense in Ecuador.
The Firm has its own fraud investigations unit and forensic laboratory through Fextor, its sister company. With its team and artificial intelligence tools, we sort through thousands of documents and transactions to find what decides a case.
What is Fextor? A corporate risk management firm made up of former officials of United States security agencies and specialists from Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. It conducts fraud investigations, digital forensics, due diligence and polygraph examinations.
Visit Fextor →When money or evidence leaves the country, we coordinate actions with authorities and partners abroad under a single strategy.
We defend companies and their executives when they are under investigation, and we act as private prosecutor when the company is the victim. These are the matters we handle most often.
Forensic investigation, identification of those responsible and criminal action.
Defense and prosecution in complex property and economic crimes.
Technical defense, due diligence and international cooperation.
Phishing, fraudulent electronic transfers and tracing of funds.
Defense of the company and use of its compliance program as a mitigating factor.
Tax and customs fraud, supported by forensic financial analysis.
Criminal actions against trademark counterfeiting and piracy.
Criminal risk for companies that contract with the State, and anti-bribery prevention.
Each service is tailored to your company, your industry and the stage of the proceedings: from the first notice of an investigation to the final appeal.
We build a case theory consistent with the facts and the available evidence. It is the backbone of the defense or the prosecution and guides every step, from the preliminary investigation to trial.
We review the full case file to identify risks, procedural opportunities and pending steps, and explain clearly where your case stands and what decisions lie ahead.
We examine accounting, digital and technical expert reports with our own analysts and forensic experts, to detect errors and contradictions and support your company's position with technical rigor.
We represent companies, executives and legal representatives in economic, property, financial and cybercrime proceedings, and act for the company as private prosecutor when it is the victim.
We prepare witnesses so they understand how a hearing works and can testify with confidence, always within the legal and ethical framework.
We coordinate lawyers, financial analysts, forensic experts and the team at Fextor, the group's investigations firm, so that every front of the case moves in the same direction.
We hear your case in full confidence and review the information available.
We analyze the case file, the evidence and the risks for the company and its executives.
Together we define the procedural roadmap and the priority steps.
Technical defense and clear communication at every stage of the proceedings.
Matters we have worked on, described without revealing our clients' identities. They show how we combine legal strategy, expert analysis and coordination with authorities in different countries.
Through several legal actions in Ecuador, the team identified and recovered funds the company had lost through a fraudulent transfer to a bank in Hong Kong, in coordination with Ecuadorian authorities, the FBI and financial, police and judicial authorities in Hong Kong.
Fexlaw pursued the criminal case for a fraud within the company, which ended in a final conviction of those responsible and full reparation for the victim, supported by expert analysis from the firm and Fextor.
Strategic analysis of the evidence and scrutiny of contradictory expert reports led to the presumption of innocence being upheld for the legal representative and the company.
Every case is different. Results in past matters do not guarantee a similar outcome in other cases.
Fexlaw's lawyers helped us with an important criminal case for the company. Their level of analysis is admirable; it is a highly skilled team.
BayerCorporate clientThanks to their work, it was possible to identify an internal fraud ring that used complex methods and involved several people. Their technical analysis and responsiveness allowed our company to identify those responsible.
Corporación FavoritaCorporate clientLeaders League has ranked Fexlaw in the top band for Criminal Law and Compliance in Ecuador for six years. That recognition is joined by Chambers and Partners and the intellectual property rankings for our anti-piracy work.
A team dedicated to corporate criminal law, backed by the whole firm: lawyers, analysts and forensic experts in Quito and Guayaquil.
02September 2025 · in SpanishInternational cooperation and judicial assistance in money laundering casesCarolina Álvarez
03August 2025 · in SpanishCorporate criminal liability and compliance as a mitigating factorAntonella Jácome
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