ECIJA holds its global partners meeting with a 22% growth

ECIJA has positioned itself as the first Spanish firm and the second international with the most extensive presence in Latin America

ECIJA will close 2020 with a 22% turnover growth compared to the previous year, positioning itself as the first Spanish firm and the second international firm with the most extensive presence in Latin America, after Dentons.

ECIJA Executive Chairman Hugo Écija (pictured centre), vice-Chairman Pablo Jiménez de Parga (pictured right), managing partner Alejandro Touriño (pictured left), and Mauricio París, Regional Head of Latin America explained this figures at the third Global Partners Meeting, held entirely by virtual means on 25 November and which brought together the firm’s almost 700 professionals, including 122 partners. ECIJA thus consolidates its growth path of the last years, wherein only two years it has achieved exceptional results of 61% growth.

The breakdown of figures shows the importance that international business has acquired in recent years for ECIJA. Although the result at a Spain level has also been positive, with an increase of 6.31%, this represents a moderate increase in relation to the activity of ECIJA’s international offices, which have grown by 52.80% in barely one year. Thus, Latin America now represents almost 42% of ECIJA’s total turnover.

As explained by the firm’s executives, this incredible growth is not only organic but is the result of the integration of new territories and new offices in ECIJA. “At an international level, ECIJA has opened new offices in up to 3 countries such as Brazil, Ecuador and Mexico and has significantly reinforced its teams in Guatemala, Portugal and Costa Rica”. According to Pablo Jiménez de Parga, vice-President of the firm: “These milestones have led us to position ourselves as the first Latin American firm and the second international firm with the largest presence in Latin America, with our own offices in up to 15 countries”.

Alejandro Touriño explained before the partners gathered together, that achieving such “incredible progress” in just one year is in the hands of very few. “Few firms manage to achieve double-digit growth consecutively, and we have achieved this by sharing our know-how, encouraging the autonomy of our different offices and making our great strength, which is knowing the local market, worthwhile”.

In terms of the firm’s plans, Hugo Écija, Executive Chairman, highlighted: “Our growth commitment is primarily focused on Latin America, in order to grow with our clients, whose roadmap includes an increasing presence of internationalisation in the region. We aspire to be the firm of reference for many companies that perceive Spain as the natural gateway to the Iberian and Latin markets. We already have a direct presence in 15 countries in LATAM, and our objective is to cover the most relevant territories in the region with our own offices in the coming years. In this context, we are already in talks with different firms in the area, and we are confident that we will be able to close Argentina, Colombia and Peru next year.”