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Sarah De León

Sarah De León

Work Department

Business / Corporate / M&A

Position

Senior partner, co-head of the transactional practice of the firm and member of the management committee of the firm. Counsels foreign and local clients in civil, commercial and business laws generally, with emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, commercial agreements, real estate projects, distribution relations, strategic alliances or joint ventures, corporate law, and processes related to foreign investments, industrial free zones investments and major league baseball clubs. Has over two decades of experience navigating complex transactions on behalf of sophisticated clients doing business in the Dominican Republic.

Career

- Senior partner at Headrick Rizik Alvarez & Fernández - Co-head of the transactional practice of the firm and member of the management committee of the firm – Former member of the board of directors of the National Association for Young Business People, Inc. (ANJE); co-chair of Dominican Republic chapter of Vance Center’s program Woman in the Profession.

Languages

- Spanish - English – French (intermediate) – Italian (basic)

Memberships

International Bar Association (IBA)- Dominican Bar Association - Dominican Association for Business Lawyers, Inc. - ANJE - Manchester University Law Graduates Association

Education

- Doctor of Laws (Magna Cum Laude), UNIBE, Dominican Republic, 1994 - LL.M in International Business Law University of Manchester, England, 1995 (British Chevening Scholarship)

Leisure

Reading and Yoga

Mentions

Dominican Republic

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