Our client SOPORTEX, advised by the lawyers Alfredo Guzmán, Leandro Corral, Cynthia Pérez and Dayanila Rivera, obtained the license to operate as the first service free zone company in Punta Cana, by the National Council of Export Free Zones (CNZFE).
The SOPORTEX operation will create more than 200 jobs in the area and will be dedicated to offering call center, telemarketing and data processing services, among others.
On the occasion of the latest Pan American Youth Games in Cali, Colombia our partner Rubén García was summoned by the Executive Committee of the Amateur Boxing Confederation of America (AMBC), in his capacity as president of the Dominican Boxing Federation, where he was asked to be president of the Court of Integrity or Discipline of that institution.
After consulting with the members of the Dominican Federation of Boxing, “we accept the honorable designation, which we consider to be an important step for boxing in our country.”
Within the framework of the activities at Fitur 2022, Alfredo Guzmán and Giselle Pérez paid a courtesy visit to the Embassy of the Dominican Republic in Spain, where they met with Carmen Amelia Cedeño, Minister Counselor, and Ninotzka Torres, Political Attaché of the Embassy, to talk about the investment climate in the country and hand out copies of the Guide for Foreign Investors in the Dominican Republic published by Guzmán Ariza.
Alfredo Guzmán-Saladín and Giselle Pérez are representing Guzmán Ariza at the 42nd edition of Fitur, the largest international tourism fair in the industry, held annually in Madrid and this year with the Dominican Republic as a special guest.
At the fair they attended the inauguration of the pavilion of the Dominican Republic by President Luis Abinader, with the presence of his Majesty, King Felipe VI; They will also be sharing with clients and friends of the firm.
The Andrean magazine, from St. Andrew’s College in Canada, conducted an interview with Fabio Guzmán Ariza, president of the firm, for its Fall 2021 issue.
The magazine collects the experiences of St. Andrew’s College students who have stood out in their personal and professional lives. Don Fabio Guzmán Ariza graduated from this institution in 1966.
Here is the link to an excerpt from the publication: https://drlawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-Andrean-Fall-2021.pdf
The Second Chamber of the Civil and Commercial Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Santiago annulled the sentence issued by the first-degree court that condemned the winning pitcher of the Cy Young Bartolo Colón to the payment of US $ 4.5 million, for alleged compensation on future earnings after his return to the Major Leagues, to the Dominican doctors who assisted him in the treatment of stem cells in the tissues of his right shoulder.
This decision dated September 20, 2021, also motivated that the doctors did not present elements that corroborate the existence of an alleged agreement between the parties involved in the legal conflict. In the words of one of Colón’s lawyers, Mr. John P. Seibel, “the Court judged on the basis of the facts and applied the law. Justice has been done for Bartolo and his family in the face of an unfounded lawsuit and an absurd first-instance sentence.”
Colón was represented by lawyers Alberto Reyes Báez, from law firm Guzmán Ariza; John P. Seibel and Patricio J. Silvestre, from law firm Seibel Dargam Henríquez y Herrera; Néstor Reinoso, from law firm Reinoso, Ottenwalder y Asociados and Gilberto Objío, from law firm Objío, Subero and Ledesma.
London, United Kingdom, September 22, 2021 – We are extremely proud to announce that Guzmán Ariza has been awarded two very important recognitions at the International Tax Review’s Americas Tax Awards 2021, as Caribbean Tax Firm of the Year and Caribbean Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year.
Now in its 17th year, the ITR Americas Tax Awards 2021 recognizes remarkable achievements and developments by international tax professionals from the North, Central and South American regions, over a 12-month period, celebrating the leading tax and transfer pricing firms and practitioners.
Following months of research, interviews and peer review, winners were judged for their innovation, complexity and impact.
Congratulations to our tax practice lead partners Alfredo Guzmán Saladín, Fabio Guzmán Saladín, Alberto Reyes Báez and their team, as well as our in-house Tax Advisor and CPA, Mariano Corral, for their excellent work. We would also like to acknowledge the other top firms and practitioners shortlisted for these awards, as they kept us in good company.
Playa Esmeralda, Miches, Dominican Republic, July 1, 2021. – Today we celebrate with the Viva Wyndham Resorts team and the president of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, the beginning of construction of what will become the 750 rooms hotel Viva Wyndham Resorts Miches, a project that represents an investment of RD$3,500 million and that will create 2,000 jobs in the region.
At Guzmán Ariza we are grateful for the trust placed on us by the Viva Wyndham management team, especially don Papo Blanco and Ettore Colussi, to manage all the permits for this project, as well as the CONFOTUR classification of the new hotel.
This project is a tangible example of PROMICHES’ compliance with the development plan signed in April 2021 with the Dominican Government within the framework of a public private partnership for the development of the Miches region. It is expected that in the coming weeks the government will begin the infrastructure work agreed upon, as a complement to these new investments.
In attendance to the ceremony were Nils Stolz-Lechner, development director for the Caribbean region of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts; the minister of tourism, David Collado; Rafael Blanco Tejera, president of the National Association of Hotels and Tourism (Asonahores); Gustavo Román, executive director of the Association of Hotels and Tourism of El Seibo and Miches – PROMICHES, along with members of the board of directors.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, June 8, 2021. – The Dominican-German Chamber of Commerce (AHK RD) represented by its president Fabio J. Guzmán Saladín, partner at Guzmán Ariza, and Víctor Bisonó, minister of industry and commerce, signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen and promote commercial exchange, investment and knowledge exchange between the Dominican Republic and Germany, through initiatives and projects of mutual execution that promote bilateral economic and educational relations.
Fabio José Guzmán Saladín stated that: “Today is a historic moment for our institution, since with the signing of the MOU and the subsequent signing of the agreement with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs in our country we are taking a firm step to strengthen ties between the Dominican Republic and Germany. We reiterate our gratitude for the signing of this memorandum of understanding and we thank Minister Ito Bisonó and all his team for their support and for all the opportunities that the agreement will generate for German and Dominican businessmen, the Dominican Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany.”
This for us is more than a memorandum of understanding, it is an important alliance for the future, which can no longer be exempted from solidarity and genuine interest in promoting investmentbopportunities between partners, as is the case of the Dominican Republic and Germany ”, said Minister Ito Bisonó.
Also in attendance were: Katrin Werdermann, Deputy Head of the German Embassy, Karsten Paul Windeler, Vice President AHK RD, Iovar Medina, Member of the Board of Directors AHK RD, Carlos Flaquer, Vice Minister of Free Zones and Special Regimes and Frauke Pfaff, Director AHK RD.
Guzmán Ariza is proud to announce that it has been chosen as the exclusive member for the Dominican Republic of the legal platform Merger Control from Legal Cross Border, an international information platform specialized in cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions and antitrust law, joining some of the world’s most elite law firms and lawyers.
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