Dante Figueroa is a U.S. citizen trained in civil and common law. He obtained his JD from the University of Concepción School of Law, Chile, and holds two masters of law degrees (University of Chile, 1999 & Washington College of Law, 1997). He is fluent in Spanish, English, French & Italian with intermediate level of German and working proficiency in Portuguese. Since 2001, he has acted as arbitrator, counsel and expert witness in numerous cases involving international and domestic arbitration throughout the Americas, has authored seven books (two of which received awards from the Inter-American Bar Association) and over fifty legal articles published in the United States, Latin America and Europe. He was an Adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law of Law teaching International Business Transactions (2004-2014), and at the Georgetown University Law Center teaching Comparative Law (2010-2014). He is a former Founding Partner of Woss & Partners, PLLC (2013-2019), and is currently the Latin American Editor of the Transnational Dispute Management (TDM) Journal, and Co-Chair of the D.C. Bar’s International Law Section’s Steering Committee. He is also member of several Latin American editorial boards, and served as the elected Secretary General of the Inter-American Bar Association (2012-2013 & 2015). He is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2019) and is registered as arbitrator at the Mediation and Arbitration Center of Santa Catarina (CAMESC), Brazil (2019), Mexico City Chamber of Commerce’s Arbitration Center (2019), and the Lima Chamber of Commerce’s Arbitration Center (2018). Figueroa’s professional experience includes a solid practical knowledge of corporate law in the areas of energy, infrastructure, mining, oil & gas and telecommunications. He practiced law for over a decade in Chile in the public and private sectors. In the public sector, he served as general counsel for two cities and for the regional branch of a government agricultural development agency, and as a staff attorney for the Chilean Agency for International Cooperation. In the private sector, he worked as an associate with Grasty Quintana Majlis & Cia., focusing his practice on international business transactions in the areas of infrastructure, mining, machine manufacturing, toll road concessions, communications, aquaculture, agricultural exports, energy, and real estate. He also served as in-house counsel for the Chilean branches of two multinational corporations. He was a consultant with Muñoz Investment Banking Group, LLC. in Washington, D.C. He is a regular speaker at numerous conferences, seminars and courses in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America. He is licensed to practice law in Chile, New York, Washington, D.C., the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Court of International Trade. With Esteban Donoso he co created Opportunity Third Party Funding.

Viktoria is an Austrian citizen, based in Vienna. She graduated from the University of Graz Law School, at which she focused on the law of international affairs and arbitration law as well as on matters connected to it, including energy law and M&A. Viktoria completed all those lectures with excellent grades, some of them top of the class and was among the High Potential students at University of Graz for consecutive years. Her thesis (written in English), is titled “Consumer Protection under Austrian Arbitration Law and the Law of the European Union – A Comparison with United States Consumer Arbitration Law.” She also obtained a certificate in international investment and commercial arbitration from the University Roma Tre, Italy, in 2019. Throughout her internship with the Global Legal Research Directorate at the Law Library of US Congress Viktoria was engaged with the jurisdictions of Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, the Netherlands as well as the European Union. In order to be admitted to the Austrian bar, Viktoria is currently doing a traineeship at Austrian courts, during which she was also assigned to the Vienna Commercial Court. In addition, Viktoria supports Figueroa Arbitration LLC as Of Counsel since May 2021. As a Legal Project Manager at Opportunity Third Party Funding Broker Viktoria is responsible for the region of Europe.

Esteban is founding partner of ED&A, with more than 15 years’ national and international experience in various practice areas, such as intellectual property, administrative law, corporate law, litigation and arbitration. He also now oversees Portuguese Sephardi citizenship procedures for thousands of individuals from different countries. Esteban is a graduate from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (2006) and obtained his Master’s in Administrative Law from Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar -UASB-, in 2009. He studied at the prestigious New York University where here obtained an LLM in 2015 and passed the New York State Bar in 2016. Esteban has written various academic books and published many articles in academic magazines from the US. He has presented his academic work as guest speaker at several international forums (WIPO, WTO, South Centre, and others). He has advised governments and institutions in various issues. With Dante Figueroa he co created Opportunity Third Party Funding.

Gabriela Villagómez is a bilingual Ecuadorian attorney who completed part of her high school studies in Bethesda, Maryland, before graduation from the Colegio Menor San Francisco de Quito. After that, she went on to study at the San Francisco de Quito University, where she obtained her undergraduate in Legal Sciences and became a Lawyer of the Republic of Ecuador. She has a graduate diploma in commercial and investment arbitration from the Austral University, Argentina. For over a decade, she worked for the Romero Arteta Ponce Law Firm. She currently holds the position of Secretary of the Arbitration Courts of the Arbitration Centers of the Ecuadorian American Chamber of Commerce, the Quito Chamber of Commerce, the CIAM International Arbitration Center, and the San Francisco de Quito University. She held the position of mentor in the leadership program sponsored by the Meritas International Network of Lawyers and provided legal counsel for the Scalesia Foundation, Tomás de Berlanga school in Puerto Ayora, Galapagos, in Ecuador. She works in private practice, focusing on corporate law and arbitration. Gabriela is the legal Project Manager of Opportunity Third Party Funding Broker (Ecuador) and Counsel at Figueroa Arbitration LLC, USA since August 2022.

Daniel graduated as a bachelor of science in 2016 at LiceoJosé Ortega y Gasset school, in Quito. Subsequently, he studied Law at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and in May 2021, he obtained his Attorney at Law degree, with a Minor in Alternative Conflict Resolution Methods. Also,in July of the same year, he was certified as a mediator at the University San Francisco de Quito Mediation Center. Then, he published his thesis in the Law Review magazine, an article related to third party funding in arbitration and entitled 'Consequences of the absence of regulation of third party funding in commercial arbitration in Ecuador'. His professional experience began in March 2019, at Corporación Legal, where he worked until April 2021; focusing corporate law, real estate law and litigation. FromMay 2021, until the present date, he has been working as a Lawyer at Esteban Donoso y Asociados, specializing incorporate law, litigation, arbitration and mediation.