Firm overview

Pellerano & Herrera has been the leading law firm in the Dominican Republic for over 30 years. The firm is typically involved in all major transactions in the country and provides advice to most international players. The firm’s multidisciplinary team of lawyers is recognised as the most comprehensive and sophisticated in the market.

Pellerano & Herrera has participated in the largest transactions in Dominican history: Barrick Corporation’s US$5.5 billion investment in the Pueblo Viejo gold mine; AmBev’s US$2.5 billion acquisition of Cervecería Nacional Dominicana; the US$2.5 billion bond offering by the Dominican State; the international financing of Altice Group’s EUR 2.7 billion acquisition of Orange and Tricom telecommunications; the US$ 1 billion financing of Barrick´s Pueblo Viejo; and the US$800 million  sale of airport operator Aerodom to VINCI.

Firm overview

EY Law is an international law firm, part of EY global firm, with over 4,000 lawyers in 87 countries throughout the world. In Central America the firm has more than 100 lawyers with offices in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá and the Dominican Republic. EY Law offers a different approach by delivering legal services that help minimise the gap between business advisors and legal counsel. Its lawyers work integrated with professionals from other service lines of EY, including local and international tax, strategic and financial advisory and investment banking, in order to provide to its clients integral value-added professional services. The Dominican Republic team has vast experience in corporate matters in general, M&A, Financial Services and Banking, Capital Markets, regulatory matters, labour, immigration and Infrastructure. The Corporate Department is well known for its outstanding quality in client service as well as expedite timing in response.

Through its global reach, EY Law’s multidisciplinary teams provide effective cross-border legal counsel to its clients, procuring  effective solutions to multi-jurisdictional challenges by rendering an uniform and consolidated approach.

EY Law represents important multinational and regional clients — including numerous Fortune 500 companies in diverse industries: automotive and transportation, banking, capital markets and insurance, consumer products and retail, government and public sector, health and life sciences, oil and gas, power and utilities, private equity, real state and hospitality, technology, media and entertainment and telecom.

Firm overview

Pellerano Nadal is a full-service law and consulting firm founded by a talented team with more than 40 years of experience providing first-rate legal, regulatory and consulting services. At Pellerano Nadal, we are guided by our clients’ needs and strive to provide trustworthy and dedicated legal and advisory services in a wide array of practice areas. Our experienced team has also represented multinational and local clients in complex cross-border and domestic transactions, which uniquely positions us to provide the best value-added legal advice and representation available in the Dominican Republic. The team’s experience is comprised of having lead the largest transactions in Dominican history: Dominican Republic’s largest foreign investment of US $6 billion made by Barrick Gold, the largest acquisition of US$2.5 billion, multiple financings in the telecommunications, mining and other sectors, as well as representing the underwriters for bonds and securities for the past 18 years, this year having made the largest issuances ever in Dominican history for US $2.5 and 3.5 billion.

We strive to provide our clients with solutions in all aspects and life cycles of their business ventures. We counsel them when investing in the Dominican Republic, whether investing in existing businesses, setting up their local operations or launching their own startups.
We also help clients identify, evaluate and minimize risks when making important strategic decisions relating to corporate organization and governance, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, ongoing operations, divestitures and exits. We provide advice on the regulatory, financial and tax implications of all-important business decisions in order to maximize rewards and ensure compliance with local law.

When strategies evolve to transactions, we also participate in representing and protecting our clients’ interests by collaborating in negotiating the best contractual terms possible and securing governmental authorizations and permits required to make them a reality.

Firm overview

Founded in 1927, Guzmán Ariza is the  only national law firm with seven offices strategically located to serve clients in every business centre in the country. Our multilingual staff is equipped to assist international investors across a wide variety of practice areas.