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JJ Roca & Asociados

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JJ Roca & Asociados

JJ Roca & Asociados

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Provided by JJ Roca & Asociados
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Managing Partner: Jaime Roca

Partners: Sharin Pablo, Felicia Santana & Ana Paula Campusano

Number of lawyers: 12

Total staff: 40

Firm Overview:
ROCA is a general practice law firm located in the city of Santo Domingo, capital and financial hub of the Dominican Republic, in the heart of the Caribbean. Established in 1998, it has more than 20 years of experience in the local market and channels assistance to its clients around the world, through the collaboration with some of the most prestigious law firms worldwide. Its growth and expansion has resulted in the firm being well positioned as one of the top tier law firms in the national market and enjoys remarkable recognition at an international level.
Client service is at the heart of its mission. In ROCA, the entire team strives to understand the challenges their clients face, providing their clients with an exceptional experience, meeting the highest quality standards in the marketplace, in order to offer their clients legal solutions tailored to their needs. The combination of its size, an interdisciplinary structure, the commitment, integrity and experience of its members, guarantee a personalized, trustworthy and cost-effective legal service. Its success and growth respond to its best letter of recommendation: its clients.

Main Areas of Practice:  

Banking & Finance:
ROCA advises financial institutions on a full range of legal issues. Its attorneys have represented Dominican companies in the structuring of loans with international entities, with the consolidation of local guarantees and regularly perform due diligence and regularization of guarantees for projects and financial transactions.

Capital Market & Securities Regulation:
The firm’s experience in capital markets and securities regulation includes assistance to investors and issuers in different types of operations, as well as legal advice to investment funds, agreements associated with them, advice on securities issues, listed companies, financial regulation, among others. In addition, it provides advice to regulated agents to comply with current legislation and regulations in place in the Dominican market.

Corporate:
The wide diversification of the firm’s corporate team allows it to provide its clients coordinated legal advice from an experienced group of lawyers capable of handling numerous situations arising from corporate transactions, giving clients a 360° view of their businesses. It advises clients in everything related to commercial companies and non-profit entities. From the choice of the corporate vehicle, its constitution, maintenance and administration, establishment of branches of foreign companies, advice on conflicts between partners, to corporate reorganisations.

Fiscal:
In ROCA attorneys specialised in the area of tax law are accompanied by tax advisors with extensive experience in accounting matters and business management. The services offered in this practice area include tax advisory and consulting services, tax audits and tax planning for both natural and legal persons, especially in matters of corporate reorganisation, including mergers, acquisitions and splits.

Foreign Investment:
ROCA advises clients regarding protection and benefits for foreign investments afforded under Dominican laws. Its team advised a joint venture formed by two renowned investors in one of the most complex investment verified on a Dominican company, which included turning it into the controlling creditor, to subsequently promoting its restructuring and takeover of the company, becoming an icon of the Dominican market.

Intellectual Property:
ROCA offers full IP services in the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean and Latin America. Its team currently acts as regional IP counsel for multinational companies that own some of the world’s most famous brands. Its clients highlight the firm’s focus on understanding their needs and the pragmatic approach to addressing and resolving those needs. Depending on the particular circumstances the firm draws on its range of well-honed skills to provide counselling, conduct due diligence and/or auditing, obtain IP rights, manage trademark/IP portfolios, undertake transactions and engage in litigation to protect or enforce rights.

Data Protection & Privacy:
ROCA provides companies and startups advice on data protection, legal audits of regulatory compliance and personal data protection regulations, as well as guidance in the design and structuring of strategies for the management of their data, helping them achieve a greater control over the responsibility of third-party data management, in line with the local legislation and the GDPR.

Labour & Social Security:
The firm has extensive experience managing regulatory issues related to the recruitment of local and foreign human capital, mitigating labour contingencies as well as providing assistance in company restructurings. Assessment of risks and drafting agreements to regulate the exposure of employees to sensitive knowledge and information proportional to industrial secrets and aspects of non-competition, before and after the beginning of the employment relationship is part of the support ROCA constantly provides its clients with.

Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution:
With an exceptional track record in litigation, ROCA has earned a well-deserved reputation of successfully resolving significant litigation cases in diverse areas of the law. With a team of top litigators, ROCA counsels some of the largest banks and multinational companies, local and foreign capital industries, agroindustry companies, hotels, investors, investment funds and individuals as well. The firm has significant experience in complex litigation cases. Its notable practice has led it to counsel renowned national and international clients in high profile, cutting-edge cases.

Mergers & Acquisitions:
ROCA advises clients through the entire process of purchase and sale of companies, joint ventures, mergers and corporate restructurings and spinoffs. Its extensive experience in M&A includes one of the largest deals performed to date in the DR, as the team represented a group of buyers in the acquisition of a telecommunications company after a successful restructuring under Chapter 11 in NY. After completion of the acquisition, a unique and historic case for the country, the firm was further retained for the corporate consolidation process, litigation and tax issues, division of subsidiaries and assets and the merger of other companies including a major Dominican cable company. It is one of the largest legal and economic movements made in Dominican territory to date.

Real Estate:
The firm advises its clients on a variety of transactions related to real estate. Its work encompasses the entire process from the due diligence to the drafting of the agreements, as well as the design and implementation of the legal structure that best fits each case.

Languages:
English, French, Spanish.

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JJ Roca & Asociados rankings

Latin America Guide 2024
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Jaime Roca
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Jaime Roca
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Intellectual Property
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Intellectual Property
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Sharin Pablo de Roca
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Sharin Pablo de Roca
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