BIOGRAPHY
Corporate Lawyer with over 30 years of experience and expertise in clients in the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean, United States of America, Latin America, Europe, China and Japan. High Experience in Corporate Transactions, General Legal Consultant to companies. Complex Due-Diligences, Mergers, Joint Ventures. Antitrust. Contracts. Franchising. Licenses, Taxes. Labor. Real Estate. Compliance Legal Audits. Corporate Governance. Drafter of Laws, Rules and Regulations in different areas.
Languages: Spanish, English and French.
EDUCATION
1987 Bachelor of Law (magna cum laude/GPA: 3.8/4.00) Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1991 Business Law Specialization. Universidad de Navarra. Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. (1990-1991).
1991 English. Godmer House School of English. Oxford, England.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE
Our firm represents a variety of business, financial, institutional, and individual clients in a wide range of matters.
▪ Represented foreign companies in land acquisition, constructions, financing and operations of large energy Projects (Smith/Enron, Solaris Group, Nexgen, CDC). Organized 94 land owners for the purchase of land for a large Renewable Energy Project. Selected by international entities to study and draft the legal pieces which were approved to govern the process of privatization of the Energy State entity. Legal Counsel to Contractors for automatic energy consumer lectors and a broad range of independent contractors.
▪ Represented international finance corporations in the Central Bank bids for the purchase of millions of assets recovered for the DR Banks, including Due Diligence, Surveyor reports, searching of land status for more than 500 real estate properties (land, commercial centers, Hotels & Resorts).
Hotels & Resorts and Casino Operators, Timesharing companies, Trustee of Vacation Clubs, Administrators & Operators, Billing & Collection companies. (services include all areas: compliance and regulatory, land acquisition and constructions of Hotels & Resorts, large financial operations, Merger & Acquisitions, Due Diligences, Contract, Tax, Corporate, Employment, Litigations, including civil, commercial, labor and criminal courts in the DR, and as Expert in depositions in USA Courts (Resorts (Occidental Hotels, Allegro Hotels, NH10, Sunscape).
To companies of the different business sectors: Insurance companies, Healthcare Providers and Insurance companies, Pension Funds companies, actors, TV producers, TV programs, commercial Banks, cooperative, farms and agriculture projects, food producers companies, importers of goods and services, advertisement and marketing companies and, in a broad variety of business.
Foreign investors from the process of identifying business opportunities until opening/establishment of subsidiaries or branch and/in the day-by-day of the business.
Legal Counsel (15 years to present) for the largest Arquitect and Civil Engineer DR company in the projects of building large residential and commercial luxury towers.
Companies operating under the special Free Zones for Export Law (manufacturing and services (call centers) companies.
▪Large experience in famous and notorious brand repatriation from local distributors protected by Dominican laws (JHONNIE WALKER and all DIAGEO’s portfolio, KETLE ONE, AVENT, WELCH’S). Structured large Joint Ventures and finance operations. Pioneer creating innovative legal schemes and implement solutions for client and Government entities. Legal Consultant for Government entities to draft/create important Healthcare Rules and Regulations, Social Security Law, including negotiation and obtainment of consensus of all related sector until approval by the National Congress. Legal Consultant for different private companies and associations of the TV and media sector.
(Selected by the parties to successfully solve their legal controversies in the course of execution of Contracts).
▪ Director and Company Secretary for banks and/or Legal Counsel of Board of Directors. Legal Counsel to Consumer goods and services/Consumer electronics companies: DIAGEO for 20 years-present, CPC (Knorr), SONY Latin America-to present, INDITEX (Zara, Bershka, Oysho, Stradivariuss)LIBERTY GOLD FRUIT (LIGO), XEROX, ELEKTRA, OCCIDENTAL HOTELS for 12 years, NH10 HOTELS, COMEXI (Spain), BRIGHTSTAR, FROOTS.