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We are honored to share with you the virtual launch event for the online edition of the “Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Legal Spanish” (“DPEJ”). The event took place on Thursday, July 2, 2020 with the participation of many prominent people involved in this project, including Pedro Sánchez, president of the Government of Spain; Santiago Muñoz Machado, director of the Royal Spanish Academy and president of ASALE, also director of this publication, and Carlos Lesmes, president of the Supreme Court and of the General Council of the Judicial Power of Spain, among others.
Don Fabio J. Guzmán Ariza, president of the law firm Guzmán Ariza [minute 36:22 of the video], was also in attendance, to say a few words as member of the Dominican Academy of Language, and of whom Don Santiago Muñoz Machado expressed this kind words: «all my affection and admiration for his great linguistic culture. He issues a newsletter every afternoon and every day about the good use of Spanish in the world of law, mainly, but also of the language in general».
You can also watch a short version of the event, including the speech of don Fabio Guzmán Ariza, in the next video.
You can access the online dictionary at https://dpej.rae.es/
Fabio J. Guzmán Ariza, Managing Partner at the Law Firm Guzmán Ariza in the Dominican Republic, presented his new book “Ley 108-05 de Registro Inmobiliario, con sus modificaciones, reglamentos y normas complementarias, concordados e indexados“, regarding real estate legislation in the country.
The event was held at the National Library of the Dominican Republic with the presence of prominent personalities of the country and the judicial system, former chief justice of the Supreme Court, past Supreme Court judges, businessmen and the general public, as well as colleagues, partners and relatives of the author.
Mr. Guzmán Ariza explained that this work meets the Law 108-05 of Real Estate Registration, the regulations and rules dictated by the Supreme Court of Justice and the most relevant provisions issued by the organs of the Real Estate Jurisdiction.
The book has an extensive thematic index that consists of about three hundred topics or entries arranged alphabetically, in addition to concordance notes and clarifying notes, which facilitates the consultation in the same volume of the extensive real estate regulations of the Dominican Republic.
Fabio J. Guzmán Ariza is a lawyer, writer, editor and linguist. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Science and Humanities (MIT), and the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (LL.B., summa cum laude, 1981). Mr. Guzmán Ariza was judge of the Disciplinary Court of the Dominican Bar Association. Currently, he is the Managing Partner of Guzmán Ariza law firm, the largest firm in the Dominican Republic; president of the editorial board of Gaceta Judicial and numerary member of the Dominican Academy of the Language and member of the Spelling Commission and the Lexicographical Research Team of the Royal Spanish Academy in Madrid, Spain.
Recently, Chambers and Partners, the most prestigious legal rating agency in the world, has recognized him as a Senior Statesman of Dominican law for his outstanding career during the years or practice.
Chambers and Partners Latin America 2016 ranked Guzmán Ariza law firm in Real Estate and Tourism, and Dr. Christoph Sieger, partner of the firm, was recognized as a recommended attorney in the area. The guide highlighted that Guzmán Ariza lawyers “are very reliable and competent. They have excellent knowledge of the market, always handle lots of operations and know all the trends”.
Dr. Sieger is the resident partner at the Punta Cana offices and specializes in international tax and real estate investments.
Guzmán Ariza law firm has extensive experience in all areas of the real estate business, working with corporate clients, financing and developing real estate projects such as malls, subdivisions, hotels and resorts, and representing individuals in purchasing or renting vacation properties in the Dominican Republic.
[September 2015]
The multinational tourist company Club Med announced the construction of 70 new villas at its current location in Punta Cana, besides a resort in another locale of the Dominican Republic whose location will be announced shortly, according to their executives that visited last Friday President Danilo Medina at the National Palace.
Marilyne Mesiano and Gregory Lenter, executives of Club Med, and their lawyers, Fabio J. Guzmán Ariza and Fabio J. Guzmán Saladin of Guzmán Ariza law firm, met with Danilo Medina to inform that starting in January of next year the company will also begin a strategic alliance with the company that runs the Cirque du Soleil in order to build an infrastructure in Punta Cana that will permit the permanent presentation of the most famous circus in the world. The total investment will have a cost of approximately US $125 million.
Club Med was the multinational tourism company which thought up the concept of the all – inclusive resort, as well as the first to install themselves in the east region of the country in 1981. From the start of its operations it has generated thousands of jobs in the Dominican Republic. This hotel chain features a 98% occupancy each month in the 550 rooms that it has available at the present time.
[November 2015]
Chambers and Partners Latin America 2015 ranked Guzmán Ariza law firm in Real Estate and Tourism, and Dr. Christoph Sieger, partner of the firm, was recognized as a recommended attorney in the area. The guide highlighted that Christoph Sieger “is not a soft lawyer, he will make it happen – he’s a bloodhound and my go-to guy.”
Dr. Sieger is the resident partner at the Punta Cana offices and specializes in international tax and real estate investments.
Guzmán Ariza law firm has extensive experience in all areas of the real estate business, working with corporate clients, financing and developing real estate projects such as malls, subdivisions, hotels and resorts, and representing individuals in purchasing or renting vacation properties in the Dominican Republic.
[September 2014]