Marielle Garrigó Partner Business & Foreign Invesment Department E-mail: m.garrigo@phlaw.com John F. Kennedy 10 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Tel. 809 735 2215 Fax: 809 567 0773

Areas of Practice

Mrs. Garrigo practices in the corporate area focusing on Banking Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Project Finance, Real Estate transactions, Telecommunications, Tourism.
Experience

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.

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

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