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Office: Santo Domingo
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Main Practice Areas

International trade

Mergers and acquisitions

Commercial and administrative litigation and arbitration

Contracts and torts

Energy

Telecommunications and technology

Languages

Spanish

English

French

 

Professional Profile

• Assisted the Ministry of Commerce of the Dominican Republic in the DR-CAFTA (Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement) negotiation rounds with the US government.Assists international banks in project finance transactions in the Dominican Republic.
• Assisted a large international hotel chain with its corporate restructuring in the Dominican Republic.
• Provided legal counsel to the construction company that built the Santo Domingo subway track.
• Assists large public work contractors in procurement bidding processes.
• Successfully represented a consortium of construction companies in several lawsuits against the Dominican government.
• Established important judiciary electoral and constitutional precedent before the Superior Electoral Court while arguing on behalf of a large Dominican political party.
• Professor of Contracts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in Santo Domingo.
• Arbitrator at the Santo Domingo Chamber of Commerce.
• Expert witness on Dominican law.

Publications

• Secured Lending (co-author), Lexology Navigator, 2016.
• Project Finance Law Guide (co-author), Getting the Deal Through, U.K., 2015, 2016, 2017.

Education

• Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, Postgraduate Studies in New Technologies Laws, 2003.
• Université de Paris, Panthéon – Assas, Paris 2, France, Diplôme supérieur de l´Université (DSU) in Commercial Law, 2003.
• Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, LL. B., magna cum laude, 2002.

Recognitions and Memberships

• Ranked as a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500 Latin America survey.
• Member of the Dominican Bar Association.
• Member of the Interamerican Bar Association.