Marielle Garrigo
Partner
Profile
Mrs. Garrigo practices in the corporate area focusing on Banking Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Finance, Real Estate transactions, Telecommunications, Tourism.
Languages: Spanish, English
Birth Information: Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Joined the Law Firm in: 1995
Areas of Practice
- Banking
- Commercial Law
- Communications
- Contract Law
- Corporate and Business
- Distributorship Law
- E-Commerce
- Energy
- Estate and Trust
- Finance
- Financial Planning
- Financial Services
- Foreign Investment
- Franchising
- Joint Ventures
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Privatization
- Project Financing
- Real Estate
- Securities
- Taxation
- Telecommunications
- Tourism & Hospitality
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
Partner of the International Practice and Foreign Investment Department in the Firm, Ms. Garrigo has participated in a wide array of high profile mergers, acquisitions and project finance transactions.
Representative transactions:
Counseling the biggest beverages company in Brazil in the acquisition, of the majority of the shares of the major bottling company in the Dominican Republic;
Advising the lenders in the US$140MM project finance transaction involving the airports subject to private administration;
Acquisition by a major nutrition, hygiene and personal care multinational of the hygiene and personal care business of the leading consumer products company in the Dominican Republic;
Acquisition by the second telecommunications services provider in the country of the biggest cable company in the country.
Professional Associations
- International Trademark Association
Ms. Garrigo is a member of the College of Lawyers of the Dominican Republic and serves on the editorial board of the Legal News Bulletin.
Publications
Comparative Study of the International Regime Applicable to Money Laundering in Latin America and the Bill Against Money Laundering Activities in the Dominican Republic
Legal News, monthly bulletin of Pellerano & Herrera
Getting the Deal Through Project Finance, 2007
Bar Admission
Ms. Garrigo was admitted to the Dominican bar in 1995.
Education
Washington College of Law, American University
LL.M in International Legal Studies, 2001
Tulane University
Introduction to American Legal Studies, 2000
Northwestern University
Summer Program in Law and Business, 1999
Harvard University
Program of Instruction for Lawyers, 1998
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
LLB, Magna Cum Laude 1995