Guzmán Ariza

Guzmán Ariza is the only national law firm in the Dominican Republic, with seven offices strategically located to serve clients in every major business and tourism centre in the country. The firm is client-oriented and offers a full range of services, across a wide variety of practice areas, through the best team of multilingual lawyers.

Our practices have earned us a reputation in the local and international business community as a respected and trusted firm that produces results.

We are internationally connected. As members of SCG Legal and GGI Geneva Group International — we are able to assist clients effectively in international transactions throughout the world.

Main areas of practice
Corporate: Guzmán Ariza has extensive experience counselling clients in all stages of their business ventures in the Dominican Republic, the largest economy of Central America and the Caribbean. The team of lawyers advise local and international clients in organizing start-ups, managing risks while growing in the market, incorporating new partners, seeking funding for expanding operations, bankruptcy and restructuring procedures or just helping them to comply with all local laws that relate to doing business in the Dominican Republic.

Real estate: Guzmán Ariza’s Dominican real estate department is unsurpassed in its skill, experience and geographical reach. Real estate lawyers work as a cohesive team with other disciplines, including tax, financing, environment, and litigation to ensure that all issues which could impact a transaction are properly and thoroughly addressed.

Mergers and acquisitions: Guzmán Ariza is actively involved in complex corporate transactions in which whole, or portions of businesses, are transferred, divested or restructured. Members of the corporate team include two partners with both law and MBA degrees, as well as in-house tax and accounting counsels, which generally results in smooth transactions with less time spent on due diligence and negotiations.

Banking, finance and securities: The firm’s expert team of attorneys advises international financial institutions, as well as companies seeking traditional or alternative sources of funds, in the negotiation, structuring, documentation and execution of all types of financial transactions related to the industry.

Project finance: The firm has deep expertise in advising clients in any type of financing transaction involving large infrastructure and industrial projects, regardless of the role its clients may play in them.

The firm has a comprehensive team of experts in corporate law, taxation, banking and finance, securitization, restructurings, and other legal disciplines, ready to efficiently and securely put together all kinds of transactions in project finance.

Tourism : The attorneys at the firm have extensive experience providing counsel and all legal services needed for any tourism-related activity in the Dominican Republic and offer clients “area-specific” advice, as well as counsel on the regulatory framework and incentives through the CONFOTUR Law, applicable to all business activities and transactions within the industry.

Foreign investment, international trade: Guzmán Ariza offers a wide range of services to clients in international trade and investment. The firm’s lawyers have the knowledge and expertise to advise clients on trade agreements, double taxation and international conventions involving the Dominican Republic.

Litigation: The firm has a large team of lawyers with extensive litigation and arbitration experience to handle all disputes its clients may find themselves involved in before local courts, once all negotiations and alternative solutions have been explored, expended or discarded.

Environment, climate change: Guzmán Ariza advises clients on all environmental regulatory, compliance and transactions required for the development of projects in the country. The attorneys help clients with the structuring, financing and implementation of the projects, as well as all transfer, operation and restructuring agreements related to them.

The lawyers counsel local and foreign companies and individuals in different industries and practices, including among others; taxation, PPP, infrastructure, cinema, sports, energy, mining, trusts, wealth preservation, manufacturing, food and beverage.

Other offices: Bávaro – Punta Cana, Sosúa – Puerto Plata, Las Terrenas, La Romana – Casa de Campo, Samaná, Cabrera.