Founding partner of the firm, completed his juris doctor at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) one of the top law schools in the Dominican Republic. He completed an LLM in Public Law, with concentration in criminal law, from the Complutense University of Madrid. Likewise, he has a  Certification in compliance and prevention of money laundering from the Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA).

 

Before founding the firm Canela Contreras, he was part of one of the most important law firms in the Dominican Republic. He has concentrated his professional practice in the area of ​​litigation and alternative conflict resolution, focusing mainly on the branches of labor and criminal law. However, throughout his professional career he has assisted important companies in the country in various corporate and business matters.

 

Relevant previous experiences:

 

• Assisted in a top tier construction firm litigation in civil, labor, administrative and criminal nature;

 

• Assisted an important company in the food market in its labor and criminal matters;

 

• Assisted one of the largest financial institutions in the Dominican Republic in the development of a compliance of mortgage and pledge guarantees;

 

• Assisted various companies in the tourism sector on their employment and labor law issues;

 

• Assisted a foreign company in a dispute with the Customs Authorities in the Dominican Republic in relation to the collection of tariffs on product imports;

 

• Assisted in the divestiture of a telecomunications company.

 

Languages:

 

• Spanish

• English

 

Recent posts:

 

• "The lack of a regime of consequences for the violation of the measures during states of exception."

 

• "Tax crime as a criminal activity prior to money laundering."

 

• "Critical analysis of the legal figure of mediate authorship in the light of the draft Penal Code of the Dominican Republic."