Alberto Reyes Báez
Partner
Office: Santo Domingo
809.255.0980
Email
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.