Guzmán Ariza, Attorneys at Law joins IR as the exclusive Foreign Direct Investment Member in Dominican Republic

  IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Fabio J Guzmán Saladín of Guzmán Ariza, Attorneys at Law. Fabio has joined IR as our exclusive Foreign Direct Investment Member in Dominican Republic. Fabio J. Guzmán Saladín has more than 10 years of experience managing the Corporate and Business department […]

Piercing the Corporate Veil under Dominican law: inconsistencies within the Companies Act

By Pablo González Tapia As a general rule, companies enjoy what the law calls, legal personality, which, under a fiction of the law, provides the company with a distinct personality from its shareholders, management or Board. This way, when shareholders do set up a company[1], they seek to be responsible only up to the amount […]

Pablo González TapiaFounding Partner, GONZÁLEZ TAPIA ABOGADOS

Towards the correct interpretation, the just application or the simple elimination, of article 11 of law 173-66, governing relationships among foreign companies and their local distributors

Law No. 173 dated April 6, 1966 is a public order statute that governs relationships between foreign companies (usually referred as licensors or grantors) and their local counterparts (acting either as agents, distributors, representatives, importers, etc.) By establishing that its regulations are of public order, the law prevents the parties from entering into any negotiation […]

Pablo González TapiaFounding Partner, GONZÁLEZ TAPIA ABOGADOS

Gonzalez Tapia Abogados joins IR as the exclusive Commercial Litigation Member in the Dominican Republic

IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Pablo González Tapia of Gonzalez Tapia Abogados. Pablo has joined IR as our exclusive Commercial Litigation Member in the Dominican Republic. With over 23 years of experience in the practice of Litigation and Corporate and Business Law, Mr. González Tapia has represented […]

Pablo González TapiaFounding Partner, GONZÁLEZ TAPIA ABOGADOS

New law on professional fees in the City of Buenos Aires

On November 27, 2014 Law No. 5,134, which regulates lawyers’ and solicitors’ fees who work in the City of Buenos Aires (hereafter the “Law”), was published in the Official Gazette. The Law, which was promoted by Jorge Rizzo and Daniel Lipovetsky from the City of Buenos Aires’s Bar Association (“CBABA”), was approved in a special […]

Javier CanosaPartner, Canosa Abogados