It is defined as the set of legal rules applicable to merchants in the exercise of their professional activity, and which also govern, although more exceptionally, commercial activity, that is, acts of commerce, carried out by any person. The economic reality to which commercial law applies shows that its content is structured according to three essential elements: the entrepreneur, the company and the external and joint activity of both of them.
In this sense, in the Dominican Republic the study of this branch of law is framed by two special normative bodies: the Commercial Code, regarding the exercise of commercial activity and commercial acts; and the General Law of Commercial Companies and Individual Companies of Limited Liability, No. 470-09, regarding the organization, operation and particularities of companies or legal entities with assets and legal personality separate from their partners or shareholders with a commercial object.
Corporate Conflicts
- Mergers and acquisitions.
- Conflicts between shareholders.
- Execution of social covenants.
- Liability actions against administrators and contestation to social covenants and decisions of the governing bodies of companies.
- Executions of judicial and extrajudicial deeds.
- Bills of exchange, checks and promissory notes.
- Personal and real guarantees.
- Executions of foreign judicial and arbitration decisions.
Contentious-Administrative Processes
- Asset claims against the State.
- Contestation and contentious-administrative appeal against decisions of public bodies.
- Claim for damages.
Banking and Finance Law
- Civil procedures for debt claim and delinquency management.
- Defense of civil procedures for minimum interest clauses, swaps, multicurrency mortgage and other financial products.
Tax Law: It refers to the relationship that corporate law has with the tax policy in force in the Dominican Republic.
Administrative law:
- Administrative at central office
- Contentious-administrative processes
- Sanctioning administrative processes
- Public procurement and public private alliances
- Tax Law
Law of the Financial Markets:
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- Banking and credit market
- Stock market
- Pension market
Right to Network Services
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- Telecommunications
- Energy
Litigation and arbitration
Our practice in these two modes of conflict resolution is developed in Constitutional Law, Civil, Commercial and Corporate Law; Labor Law and Tax Law. In any case, we firmly believe in Mediation as a tool for conflict resolution.
Labor Law
- Pre and post contractual advice.
- Labor litigation.
- Social Security consulting.
- Environmental law.
- Aeronautical Law.
- Foreign investment and Free Zones.
- Compliance.
- Corporate governance.
It is defined as the branch of Law in charge of the study and analysis of the basic law of a State, better known as the Constitution. The 2010 constitutional reform divided the history of Dominican constitutionalism into a before and after. The Substantive Law that the constituent bequeathed to the Dominican people on January 26, 2010, was the product of a reform process carried out in a reflexive way, coldly evaluated and thought, in which the citizenship had such a genuine and spectacular participation, that they made this reform process an unprecedented constituent moment in Dominican history.
We have a Constitution that implies a deep redesign of the State, to strengthen its institutionalism, improve its efficiency and create the institutional bases to walk in the construction of a Dominican Republic where there are fairer material conditions and opportunities for the development, progress and well-being of the country.
Liability actions
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- Contractual and non-contractual liability.
- Product liability.
- Professional liability.
Family and Succession Law
- Family Procedures.
- Rectification of Birth Certificates.
- Name change processes.
- Prenuptial Agreements.
- Divorces.
- Child Custody.
- Testaments.
- Determination of heirs.
- Determination and integration of hereditary flow.
- Contestation to testamentary provisions.
- Excision of assets as a consequence of:
- Succession.
- Testaments.
- Marriage dissolution.
Credit and debt collections and monetary executions
- Executions of judicial and extrajudicial deeds.
- Bills of exchange, checks and promissory notes.
- Personal and real guarantees.
- Executions of foreign judicial and arbitration decisions.
Civil Law is the branch of law that includes legal-type norms that are in charge of regulating relations between people or property, which can be voluntary or forced, both physical and legal, private or public. Each person is considered an individual with rights, so civil rights are responsible for linking civil rights with individuals, that is, a system of a subjective type that considers a person as an individual and not as a generality. In the Dominican Republic, the regulatory framework for these relationships is the Dominican Civil Code, which is inspired by its French counterpart of the 18th century.
Civil Law has several subtopics, namely:
The right of persons. It is in charge of regulating individuals from the beginning to the end, their legal capacity, their nationality, the assets administration of legally incompetent individuals, the elements that determine that an individual is like this and not otherwise, legal relationships with others (marital status, domicile, etc.). In other words, it watches over the interests and rights of each human being.
Law of obligations and contracts. These serve to control legal acts and transactions and the consequences attached thereto.
The right of things. It refers to the person’s assets or patrimony, that is, it controls the real rights and legal relationships of the individual with the objects he/she owns, properties, possessions, etc.
The civil liability law
- Family law. Which is responsible for regulating the legal consequences related to family relationships; may derive from marriage or the relationship of an individual with another.
- Succession Law. It is in charge of controlling the legal consequences of the transfers of goods and rights; this can occur when an individual dies, if he/she had prepared a testament where he/she appoints his/her heir(s) for his/her property and assets.
- Generic standards. Which include all branches of law. This is why it is possible to find Civil Law under the name of common law.
- Prevention of Money Laundering, Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Electoral Law