Professional Profile

Mr. Guzmán-Saladín is a top-ranked attorney in the hospitality, entertainment, real estate and sports industries, quoted several times in The New York Times, with an impressive track record in handling transactions in high-end projects across the Dominican Republic, such as Casa de Campo, Punta Cana, Cap Cana and Playa Grande. Listed below are some of his representative work.

• Represents ultra-high-net-worth individuals in their purchase of luxury villas and homes in the Dominican Republic.
• Advises a major US sports and entertainment agency with regards to their Dominican athletes and clients.
• Advisor to Chinese conglomerate Fosun International in their $430 million IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for their investment in Club Med hotels in the Dominican Republic.
• Assisted an international hotel chain in obtaining tax exemptions and incentives under Tourism Incentive Law 158-01.
• Closed on credit facilities in excess of $200 million for the Dominican and Caribbean operations of an international client.
• Assisted a major hospitality client in debt restructuring.
• Serves as expert counsel on Dominican law in contractual and tort matters before courts in the UK and the United States.
• Represented a major American bank in a complex litigated foreclosure of luxury real estate.
• Counsel to an international client on commercial and tax law matters related to FDI, subsidiaries, acquisitions, structuring, project finance, real estate developments, and efficient cross-border tax planning.
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Asociación de Hoteles y Turismo de El Seibo y Miches (PROMICHES).

Practice Areas

• Corporate and Business
• Real Estate and Tourism
• Telecommunications
• Foreign Investment
• Project Finance
• Contracts and Torts
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Tax
• Sports Law
• Film Industry and Entertainment
• Antitrust and Competition
• Infrastructure and PPP
• Energy

Publications

• Latin Lawyer Reference Project Finance, 2020.
• Real Estate 2020 – Dominican Republic – Chambers Global Practice Guide Introductions to the legal framework: Ownership of Real Estate
• The Real Estate Law Review, The Law Reviews, United Kingdom, 2019, 2020
• Real Estate – Dominican Republic Questionnaire (co-author), Latin Lawyer Reference, 2018, 2019, 2020
• M&A in the Dominican Republic (co-author), Lexology Navigator, 2018, 2019, 2020.
• Secured Lending (co-author), Lexology Navigator, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
• Real Estate Law Guide (co-author), Getting the Deal Through, U.K., 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
• Project Finance Law Guide (co-author), Getting the Deal Through, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
• The functioning of limited liability companies, Pontificia Universidad Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic, 2009.
• Contributor to the only current book on company forms published in the Dominican Republic.
• Contributed in the preparation of the national mercantile registry regulations during the transition to the current Company Law in the Dominican Republic.

Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.), Masters in Business Management (2007).
• Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) LL. B, summa cum laude, 2006.

Recognitions and memberships

• Ranked as a recommended lawyer in The Legal 500 Latin America, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
• Ranked as a next generation partner in The Legal 500 Latin America, 2021.
• Dominican Bar Association.
• American Bar Association.
• International Bar Association.

Languages

• English
• Spanish
• French
• Portuguese