With over 20 years of active participation in the telecommunications and information technologies sector, our team has had the opportunity to lead and participate in the main development initiatives of the legislation that regulates the telecommunications market, as well as in the most relevant acquisition, sale and restructuring transactions of the region. Our managing partner has held several leading positions in the regulatory agency of the Dominican Republic as well as in Latin-American associations linked to this sector. He has acted as counsel and advisor to the leading corporations rendering telecommunication services within the region. The combination of all these factors allows us to have a general and profound vision of the business when acting as strategic allies of our clientele.

Our team has extensive experience advising corporations, financial entities as well as local and international investors regarding corporate governance, due diligence, restructurings, mergers, spin-offs and acquisitions, in addition to managing the day-to-day meetings of governing bodies, which has allowed us to successfully participate in some of the most significant transactions telling place in the Dominican Republic. Our foreign investment practice has accompanied clients in the design, implementation and execution of strategies for entering our markets or expanding operations of numerous globally recognized corporations.

Our business team has considerable experience in representing investors in their various relationships with the Dominican State, such as the negotiation and preparation of concession contracts, power purchase agreements, and participation in national and international public tenders, hierarchical remedies before all agencies within the Administration, as well as presenting ordinary claims and writs of amparo before the Superior Administrative Court to safeguard their rights.

We have acted as counsel in several of the main constitutional challenges before our High Courts, achieving important precedents in the interpretation of the Constitution of the Dominican Republic, to the benefit of our clients. At the same time, we have nurtured a close and effective labor of counseling various government agencies in the formulation of rules and public policies, both domestic and in several of Latin American countries, where we have served as consultants on issues related to markets opening, competition, judicial reform, transparency and alternative dispute resolution.

When involved in lawsuits and disputes of all kinds, our clients have the certainty that we zealously seek their best interests, guarding their assets and protecting their rights, as well as preparing the necessary strategies to restore any infringement that may have affected them. Due to our vast experience in civil, commercial, criminal, labor and administrative matters, we strive as legal advisors of clients within a wide array of sectors, which range from global corporations to private investors interested in having high caliber litigants whenever handling their conflicts.

Our arbitration practice is closely linked to our litigation experience, which is why we take pride in constantly representing local and international clients, as well as foreign government agencies, in proceedings involving numerous industries, having had the opportunity of participating in disputes administered under the guidelines of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the Santo Domingo Chamber of Commerce.

Industrial Property
For many years we have handled important portfolios in the fields of intellectual and industrial property of our clients, accumulating in-depth experience and an extensive body of legal expertise in areas related to the protection of patents, trademarks and copyrights. Our firm provides legal assistance on a wide range of issues associated with development of strategies for the protection of intellectual and industrial property, in compliance with our legislative mandates, and all other relevant regulations governing other distinctive signs within the national territory. We regularly advise our clients in the registration and maintenance of rights in invention copyrights; both contentious and non-contentious issues; sale and purchase of intellectual property rights and overall legal counseling services related to the application of such rights. Our team also provides advisory and legal services in fields related to infringement of intellectual property rights, including privacy and counterfeiting.

Real Estate
Rizek Abogados possesses vast practical experience in the field of legal counseling to -both national and international- investors and real estate developers, interested in engaging in negotiations associated to real estate transactions in our country. Our firm is committed to offering the most effective and feasible advice achievable, conditional on the specific characteristics of each case, so that its clients are able to conduct transactions within environments that facilitate the successful achievement of their operations while fully complying with the regulations and guidelines established by the law. To this end, our services include the conduct of legal procedures associated with purchase, sale and lease transactions, as well as legal assistance on land surveying operations and establishment of condominium property regimes, amongst others.