Luís J. Jiménez will join a hand-selected team of some of the country’s best legal minds to advise the executive branch's Legal Advisor Office in consequentially modifying existing laws to harmonize them with the country's new constitution.
As a longtime advocate of establishing the Dominican Republic as a desired choice of forum and venue for domestic and international arbitration proceedings, Marcos Peña-Rodriguez has been recently named Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution of the Chambers of Commerce and Production in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Marcos Peña-Rodriguez was recently highlighted in the December 2009 issue of the Association for International Arbitration’s publication, In Touch, for lending his expertise on the new Dominican arbitration law for the International Chamber of Commerce’s 7th ICC Annual Miami Conference on International Commercial Arbitration in Latin America, held on November 2, 2009. Marcos provided his insight as a panelist for a seminar entitled: “Report on Current Practices, Legislation and Case Law.”
At a ceremony held on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, in Miami, Florida, Jiménez Cruz Peña was honored for making the Shortlist of law firms for the Chambers Latin America Awards for Excellence 2009.
Lauded in multiple practices and leaping in rank, Jimenez Cruz Peña has been favorably recognized as an increasingly visible Dominican law firm in the 2010 edition of Chambers Latin America.
Galina Tapia, an associate of Jiménez Cruz Peña, has been asked to act as instructor for a training workshop organized by the Organization of American States (OAS) on the legal regime of e-government.
In an effort to reform the corporate law in the Dominican Republic, a new law was enacted on 11 December 2008, the General Law on Business Associations and Limited Liability Proprietorships, number 479-08 (“Law 479-08” or the “Law”), as an urgent need for driving Dominican corporate practices within a global economy ever more open and competitive.
JCP has created a document outlining the most salient features of this new law. Download PDF
The Dominican Republic has become the latest country to pass new arbitration legislation based on the UNCITRAL Model Law.
On December 19, 2008, the Dominican Republic joined the list of countries that have adopted a modern arbitration law. The recently enacted piece of legislation repealed a section of the Civil Procedural Code that was outdated, inadequate and failed to comply with the elements that distinguish an arbitral procedure from litigation before a court.