Pellerano Nadal Law & Consulting

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.

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.

We consider ourselves our clients’ strategic partners and are strongly committed to not only helping our clients mitigate risk, but also helping them discover business opportunities and maximize gains.

Our team has over 40 years of experience counseling clients looking to do business in the Dominican Republic in a broad range of specialized industries including energy, emerging technologies, tourism, aviation, mining, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and financial services, amongst others. The team also assists clients when challenges and disputes arise during the course of their business activities. Our extensive litigation, mediation, and arbitration experience, combined with a strong business acumen and pragmatic approach, enable us to tackle the most complex matters and offer clients efficient and effective solutions to their commercial and dispute-related challenges.

Main Areas of Practice:

■ Banking & Finance

■ Mergers & Acquisitions

■ Capital Markets. Securities

■ Administrative Law. Bidding, Concessions. PPP

■ Energy, Renewable Energy

■ Mining

■ Aviation

■ Cinema & Media

■ Real Estate

■ Tourism

■ Dispute Resolution

■ Arbitration

■ Environmental & Climate Change

■ Foreign Investment

■ Construction & Infrastructure

■ Telecommunications

■ Sports

■ Hydrocarbons

■ General Corporate Advisory

■ Government Relations

■ Intellectual Property

■ Labour and Employment

■ Taxation

■ Trusts and Estates

■ Family Law. Wealth Management

International Work:

Our team has led emblematic transactions in the Dominican Republic such as the only international IPO and listing of a Dominican company on the New York Stock Exchange, the largest acquisition in the history of the country for more than US $2 billion, the largest foreign investment in the country’s history for more than $6 billion, the first international sovereign bond issue and Local Liability Management of sovereign debt in international and local markets.

Clients:

■ Jet Blue Airways

■ Barrick Gold

■ Embraer

■ Unicomer Group

■ Bank of America

■ JP Morgan

■ Citibank

■ Incoa

■ GoldQuest

■ Deloitte

■ BHD-Leon Bank

■ ENERGAS

■ International Finance Corporation (IFC)

■ Shell Petroleum Corporation

■ Selectum Luxury Resorts

■ Inter-American Investment Corporation

■ Encore Repair Services

■ Procter & Gamble

■ Imperial Brands

■ Expeditors

■ Belfond Enterprise

■ Apache Corporation

■ New Fortress Energy