Luis Rivas

Practice Areas

Luis Rivas focuses his practice on litigation in the Dominican-Republic, from all its angles. Represents national and international clients in arbitration, labor law, civil and commercial lawsuits, contentious – tax procedures, environmental-claims, corporate and administrative responsibility-disputes, real estate, family and inheritances processes, as well as in criminal and constitutional-lawsuits.

Career

Has already left an imprint on the Dominican-legal world by inspiring judicial milestones such as the Constitutional-Amparo-Action in the Dominican-Republic and the Unconstitutionality of the Principle of “Solve et Répète” (Previous Payment) in Dominican tax law; and through his intervention and experience in momentous civil, commercial, tax, criminal, real estate, consumer law and competition, constitutional, municipal cases, as well as contracts and administrative concessions in the country. He has participated in tenders of the Dominican State, purchases of goods and services and in contentious-administrative cases against the Dominican State.

Throughout his professional career he has accrued vast experience with high-profile cases including litigating in the Arbitration-Court-of-the-Chamber-of- Commerce and Production-of-Santo Domingo defending a company producing Rum and other spirits; representing an Asian bank in a millionaire collection case in the Dominican-Republic; and representing the president of one of the largest commercial banks in the country as the defense in a fraud case.