Alejandro Peña-Prieto is the managing partner of the firm’s Santo Domingo office. He counsels clients on corporate, finance, taxation, government relations, contracts and regulatory issues related to doing business in the Dominican Republic. He concentrates his practice on assisting and providing strategic business counsel to American, Latin American and European investors with significant business interests in the Dominican Republic, particularly in the energy, telecommunications, banking and finance, real estate and hospitality, pharmaceutical and consumer products sectors.

For the past several years, Chambers and Partners has recognized Mr. Peña-Prieto as one of the country’s top lawyers in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers. He was also recognized in Chambers Latin America 2010 and has been included in The International Who’s Who of Mergers and Acquisition Lawyers 2008 and LatinLawyer 250 for his work in the Dominican Republic.

Mr. Peña-Prieto has recently been elected president of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Dominican Republic, where he has been a member since 2000. He is also a member of the board of the Association of Foreign Investment Companies of the Dominican Republic and of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce of Latin America (AACCLA).

He is a member of the Dominican Bar Association and the Section of International Law of the American Bar Association.

Representative Experience

• Advising numerous multinational financing corporations in structuring and securing asset-based financing transactions in the Dominican Republic.
• Assisting the climate change solutions group of a major US-based energy company in the development in Colombia of landfill gas capture and combustion projects under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol.
• Representing the Dominican distributor of a US-based heavy machinery manufacturer in the acquisition of the manufacturer’s distributorship in Jamaica.
• Counseling a local financial services provider in the drafting of legislation to be submitted to the Dominican Congress for the development of international financial centers in the country.
• Advising an international bank in the acquisition and takeover of a major Dominican bank as well as in its negotiations and dealings with the regulatory authorities in the Dominican Republic.
• Counseling a major US-based energy company in its successful bid and acquisition of a capitalized electricity distribution company in the Dominican Republic.
• Representing the Dominican government in structuring and carrying out a successful public bidding process for the privatization of the largest gold mine in the Dominican Republic.
• Advising a joint venture of multinational investors in the development and financing of the first WiMax telecommunications network in the Dominican Republic.
• Assisting multinational energy companies in the development and financing of Dominican greenfield power generation projects.
• Representing a major US-based credit card company in structuring, negotiating and implementing a credit card management structure in conjunction with a consortium of Dominican Republic-based and non-Dominican Republic-based banks.
• Participating as local counsel to US-based underwriters as well as to various corporations in transactions to issue bonds eligible for resale under Rule 144A of the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
• Representing non-Dominican Republic-based manufacturers in agency and distribution issues including the drafting, negotiation and enforcement of agreements under Dominican Agent/Distributor Protection Law No. 173.