Yépez & Vaca was founded in 2016 as a legal firm that was born from two practicing proceduralists with more than 10 years of professional practice whose performance is developed in the civil and criminal procedural practice of Law. Gisela Vaca Jaramillo, a graduate of the Pontifical Catholic University of Quito with a specialty in victimology, began her practices in Criminal Law for more than 15 years, representing the legacy of Dr. Ricardo Vaca Andrade, a nationally and internationally recognized jurist and criminal expert. Diego Yépez Garcés has vast experience in the civil and criminal procedural area, founder of the Ecuador Oral Litigation project, being one of the most relevant experiences after being part of the coordinating commission of the then General Organic Code of Processes project. Francisco Estupiñán Barrantes, Lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Quito, specializing in financial crimes, fraud and organized crime. He worked in the Attorney General's Office of Ecuador, the Constitutional Court and -for more than 10 years- in the US Embassy in Quito, with the Department of National Security, Department of Justice and the FBI. Several specialized lawyers work in our firm, both in preventive sponsorship and adversarial oral litigation.