About

In 2013, after a career in private practice, Héctor Álvarez was presented with a new professional opportunity to serve as legal director of the Sansoucí Group, an entity that within its portfolio is in charge, among other projects, of the Port of Santo Dominigo, which is operated by the company Sans Soucí Ports. Since then he has been able to have an even broader approach to corporate life, not only from the perspective of intellectual property and corporate laws, but from all the duties that influence all the activities carried out by the group, ranging from inter-institutional relations, to daily labour law, contracts and tax. The transition has given Álvarez many learning opportunities, one being presented by the interaction with a diverse range of professionals. ‘Despite coming from a large firm where I sometimes had to deal with some issues with non-lawyers. In this new organisation I had to interact and often put myself in the shoes of other professionals who depend on the legal team support to meet its demanding commercial goals without at the same time violating any of the legal provisions applied to the activity of the Sansoucí group company’, says Álvarez, something that has resulted in a ‘professional wealth’ in terms of providing opportunities for legal creativity. Álvarez has effectively been able to maintain, a tracking of all the legal contingencies to which the organisation is exposed to, which is immersed in different commercial activities. ‘These changes, sustained on the basis of much monitoring, have allowed the group to anticipate many situations that in the past could have taken them by surprise’, explains Álvarez. His professional journey started a few months after graduating, where he had the opportunity to join Dominican law firm Pellerano & Herrera, working in their intellectual property department, having access to an ‘exceptional’ team and experiences in the matter obtained by their substantial client portfolio and specialised cases. He subsequently started to realise that one of the things he was most passionate about was the corporate aspects and corporate life of the companies, to which he was also given the opportunity to work for its business department, specifically in the area of commercial companies.