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Mary Fernández

Mary Fernández

Work Department

Intellectual Property / Business / Corporate

Position

Founding Partner. Wide practice in foreign investment, corporate law, banking and international finances, negotiation and execution of contracts, franchising and distribution relations, structuring and implementation of real estate and tourist projects. Focus on intellectual property matters.

Career

Founding Partner at Headrick Rizik Alvarez & Fernández – Received Medal of Merit for Dominican Woman in 2023, category for business, granted by the Government of the Dominican Republic- National Ambassador for the Dominican Republic of the ICC Commission on Intellectual Property- Arbiter and past president of the Mediation, Conciliation and Arbitraje Committee of ASIPI-Judge of the Disciplinary Panel of ASIPI-Member Board of Directors of Chamber of Commerce and Production of Santo Domingo, Inc. (CCPSD)- past Chair  and present member of Legal and Health Committees, AMCHAMDR – Past President Technological Institute of Santo Domingo, Inc. (INTEC)- Editor of Gaceta Judicial - Past President, Dominican Association of Intellectual Property - Past President, Foundation of Institutionalism and Justice – past Chair of the Latin American Council of the International Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) Professor of Intellectual Property for Master´s Program at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PCUMM). Co-editor of “Anuario de Jurisprudencia Casacional Dominicana 2022” sponsored by the “Escuela Nacional de la Judicatura” (ENJ) Recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers Latin America, in Band 1 for Corporate/Commercial and Intellectual Property.

Languages

- Spanish - English

Memberships

- Dominican Bar Association – International Trademark Assocation (INTA) – Asociación Interamericana de la Propiedad Intelectual (ASIPI), Legal and Health Committees, AMCHAMDR – ICC Institute of World Business Law

Education

- Bachelor of Laws (Summa Cum Laude), UNPHU, Dominican Republic, 1979 - Political Science courses Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 1980. LLM in Intellectual Property from the University of Illinois, in Chicago, USA. Graduated in 2016, with honors.

Leisure

Reading, traveling.

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