Her notable experience includes:

– Successfully negotiating the resolution of a USD 5 million international arbitration case for the Dominican Government.

– Leading legal advisory for the Dominican Government on the international tender for 800 MW of LNG in Manzanillo.

– Designing and structuring the legal solution (presidential decree) for the new tailings dam for the country’s largest exporter.

– Advising the Dominican Government on evaluating and signing the first hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation concession contract in the country and defending it before Congress until approval.

– Providing legal counsel to a foreign client in a tender for 600 MW coal plants.

– Advising the Dominican Government in an international public tender for 1200 MW of energy.

– Assisting a multinational client with the design and preparation of a concession request, contract preparation, and relevant documents for the installation of 2 FO#2 power generation plants, valued at approximately USD 400 million.

– Negotiating energy sales contracts between distribution and generation companies for a multinational client, exceeding USD 1 billion.

– Negotiating and preparing legal documentation for the largest acquisition deal in the country for a multinational client, valued over USD 4 billion.

– Providing legal advice for the capitalization of electricity distribution companies in the south and north of the country, valued over USD 2 billion.

– Acting as a legal representative in the first competition case before the Superior Administrative Court.

– Defending a case of competition in the electricity sector, involving a divestment order from the Superintendency of Electricity valued at approximately USD 1 billion.

 

Previous Roles:

– Lead and external legal advisor to the Minister of Energy and Mines of the Dominican Republic (2020-2022 and 2012), heading the legal team in the electricity, mining, and hydrocarbons sectors, and serving as President of the Liquidation Commission of the Dominican Corporation of State Electric Companies, President of the Unified Council of EDESUR, EDENORTE, and EDEESTE, and President of the National Energy Commission.

– Managing Partner at Amiama Nielsen Lawyers.

– U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – Non-remunerated Professional Affiliation in the International Competition and Consumer Protection Division.

– Director of the Law School at APEC University (UNAPEC).

 

Relevant advisory:

International:

– Inter-American Development Bank

– U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

– European Union

– United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

– United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

 

Dominican Government:

– Office of the Presidency

– Superintendency of Electricity

– Dominican Corporation of State Electric Companies

– General Directorate of Customs

– General Directorate of Public Procurement

– Presidential Office of Information Technology

– National Congress

– Ministry of Industry and Commerce

 

Professional Development:

– Legal Consultant and member of the presidential commission for drafting legislative projects, including competition defense law, consumer protection law, public procurement law, electricity law, mining law draft, electronic government law draft, and proposals for justice reform in the Dominican Republic.

– National Consultant for WTO agreements and competition policies.

– Negotiating delegate in the Working Group on Competition Policies of the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

– Private commercial arbitrator since 2009.

– Professor of competition law, foreign investment law, international trade law, and commercial law.

– Speaker at prominent national and international forums.

– Regularly publishes legal essays in national and international media.