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Founding partners Norman De Castro, Luis Rivas and Milcíades Rodrí-guez, combined their professional knowledge to established DR & R Abo-gados y Consultores Fiscales (De Castro, Rivas y Rodríguez), a firm of at-torneys and tax consultants focused in satisfying the needs of its clients. We work with all types of businesses that require legal and tax counseling. Providing advice in the most complex transactions, negotiating and help-ing in closing agreements, consulting in tax matters, and assisting in the resolution of civil and criminal disputes before Dominican courts. To-gether they amount 75 years of experience in the legal and tax fields.

The experience of our team, along with our business-oriented mindset ensures our involvement in the most interesting and important cases within our practice areas. Our clients trust us to advise them in matters critical for the success of their busi-

nesses such as strategic transactions, tax affairs and litigation matters. It will be our privilege to assist you.

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In this firm we combine a multidisciplinary and multi-lingual team who contributes with many years of ex-perience in legal and tax matters which, along with our professional integrity, we put at your disposal.

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Philosophy

DR & R is committed to provid-ing valuable and timely services, with practical and creative solu-tions to complex financial and business cases in Dominican Republic. Our focus is the needs of our clients by understanding their business, anticipating and reacting to changes in local leg-islations and business environ-ment, and having a team of experienced, insightful, and innovative people who add value to each transaction.

Vision

Our vision guides all aspects of our business, and serves as a framework for what we need to accomplish to achieve sustain-able growth and maintain the trust of our clients.

Every day we strive to become the preferred choice of indi-viduals and companies doing business in Dominican Repub-lic. Our desire and commitment is to have a lasting and continu-ous development within the Dominican society, contribut-ing and growing with our part-ners, employees, colleagues, and collaborators.

Values

Loyalty:We consider ourselves strategic partners of our clients, support-ing them with each transaction and business idea they choose to implement.

Integrity:We are consistent in our actions, methods and prin-ciples. We believe in the consis-tency between the expectations of our clients, our actions, and the results we deliver.

Versatility:We are capable of transforming ourselves to meet our clients’ needs. While we handle our practice with poise and ethics, we do not limit ourselves to existing approaches when ad-dressing your business.

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Tax Advisory

DR & R offers comprehensive advice on tax matters for domestic and international clients in areas such as general taxation, strategy design, personal tax planning as well as family and corporate, and pricing transfer. Additionally, DR & R assists in filing lawsuits and appeals before local authorities and courts in litigious matters of tax nature.

Our tax consultants are authors of important publi-cations, executive summaries, and the most comprehensive Annotated Tax Code in the Domini-can Republic. Furthermore, they have participated in the elaboration and development of general rules and regulations for the Dominican tax administra-tion.

Competition Law and Integrations

Offering assistance to our clients in procedures and appeals before the Council for the Defense of Com-petition, as well as advisory services on non-competition agreements, non-solicitation agree-ments, and on non-disclosure agreements.

Administrative and Regulatory Law

The firm provides legal and due diligence assistance to its clients before State agencies regarding public tenders, procurement, seizures and expropriations, grants and contributions, as well as in administrative - contentious procedures.

Environmental Law

Given the current global changes and the importance environ-mental law has taken on national and international legislation, as well as in the regulation of businesses, our experts advise clients in complying with regulatory standards and procedures, in obtain-ing permits and licenses, and in resolving environmental conflicts.

Maritime Law

Our attorneys and consultants advise our clients in mergers and acquisitions, maritime insurance, restructuring and insolvency of shipping companies, in addition to taxation and maritime operations in all regulatory and administrative fields.

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Family Law

DR & R offers clients advice on family law, including legal assistance in civil and religious marriages. We also assist with the elaboration of prenuptial agreements, with inheritance and donations including family wealth man-agement, with the different types of divorce (mutual agreement, irrecon-cilable differences, and the expeditious or ‘quick’ divorce process), as well as with conciliations and mediations.

Banking, Financial Services, and Securities

DR & R advises its local and international clients in capital markets, securities regulation, compliance and corporate governance, investment funds, guar-antees, project financing, leasing contracts, public finance, issuing bond, and economic development, among others.

Consumer Law

DR & R offers services in this specialized area of the law. Our firm advises clients on consumer protection law, represents and defends them in lawsuits on the matter, as well as in proceedings before the regulatory agency (PRO-Consumidor).

Real Estate Law

DR & R has a team of attorneys with extensive expe-rience in real estate, allowing us to offer compre-hensive support to clients when making decisions about real estate. Our firm advises clients through-out the buying/selling real estate process, as well as assisting with leases and real estate financing. Likewise, we provide legal services for develop-ment, technical, and promotion contracts, and for the establishment of condominium complexes as legal entities.

Immigration

At DR & R we have immigration specialists who counsel clients on the matter and assist in obtaining travel permits for minors, work permits and visas, provisional and permanent residences, in addition to residence for investors, rentiers, and retirees. We assist with residency renewals and naturalizations.

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Corporate and Commercial Law

Our attorneys and consultants possess extensive experience in corporate and commercial law, which allows us to advise our clients in all branches of the business and commercial practice. DR & R has participated in milestone transactions on purchase and sale of businesses, mergers, demergers, as well as in the establishment of renowned international franchises in our country.

We provide corporate advice in areas such as purchase and sale of businesses, elaboration of commercial contracts, franchising, mergers and acquisitions, demergers, capital management and investment funds, priva-tization, debt refinancing, representation in commercial transactions and negotiations, and restructuring and insolvency. Our corporate practice includes the selection, structuring and establishment of appropriate corpo-rate vehicle for your business.

Trusts

DR & R has a strategic alliance with Solutrust Dominicana, an affiliate of Solutrust México, leaders in providing innovative and practical solutions focused primarily on the establishment, management, operation, and control of Trusts both public and private. This partnership enables us to provide customized solutions regardless of the size of your business or company, or the complexity of the problem or magnitude of the project.

Our trusts experts advise clients on all legal, commercial, and tax aspects to take into consideration when incorporating a trust. Our attorneys have assisted with the creation and commissioning of the fiduciary belonging to one of the largest business groups in Dominican Republic.

Labor and Social Security Law

DR & R offers legal assistance and consultation regarding all aspects of labor law, including the registration of companies before the local labor authorities. We also offer advisory services in the elaboration and/or revision of internal company policies, with preventive labor audits, filing or defending from legal actions, in the elaboration and/or revision of employment contracts, with termination of employees and labor restructuring, consulting on recruitment of expatriates, assisting with dispute resolution and mediation in labor disputes, as well as with collective agreements negotiation, with regulation of employment and working conditions, and with regulation of trade unions and occupational risk prevention.

We also provide educational support through work-shops on compliance with labor standards, as well as on main employer obligations under local law, on the legal framework of social security, employee benefits administration and on employer payroll taxes and charges.

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Litigation and Alternative DisputeResolution

DR & R has a top quality litigation team which allows us to provide our domestic and international clients the required legal assistance and counseling on matters ranging from family law to civil and commercial law – such as collections, foreclosures, civil liability, breach of contract, divorce proceed-ings, and inheritance law –.

Moreover, we assist in all aspects of criminal law including intellectual and industrial property disputes, economic crimes, fraud, money launder-ing and criminal insolvency. In addition to this, our firm handles arbitration proceedings, cases of labor and social security law, corporate governance and business law matters, as well as administrative law, and advice in environmental dispute resolution.

Foreign Investment - International Trade

The attorneys at DR & R have been involved in some of the major transactions on the establishment of foreign businesses in Dominican Republic. Our firm provides legal, commercial, and tax services for instituting franchises and on import and export transactions. We also provide assistance relating to the legal framework and incentives to foreigners. Our specialists counsel various business groups on how to make the most of Free Trade Agreements and other treaties.

Intellectual Property

The firm has experts in intellectual and industrial property, which allows us to provide services on registration and renewal of trade names, brands, and brand logos, correction of clerical errors, trade name changes, patent registration, protection of author rights, litigation, among others; including advising on proceedings before regulatory agencies such as ONDA and ONAPI.

Insurance

Our attorneys possess extensive experience in advising clients within the insurance sector, excel-ling at litigation proceedings relating to insurance companies and their customers. DR & R supports its clients in mediation and conciliation processes, in private insurance and reinsurance, as well as with portfolio transfer operations of domestic and inter-national insurance, among other issues in this field.

Partnerships

Memberships

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Santo Domingo OfficeDR&R Abogados y Consultores Fiscales

Avenida Correa y Cidrón No.57Santo Domingo, Dominican RepublicPhone (809) 508-7100Fax 809-508-7110

Punta Cana OfficeDRR & Almánzar Abogados y Consultores Fiscales

Boulevard 1ro de Noviembre,Edificio Belanova Suite 305Punta Cana Village, Dominican RepublicPhone (809) 831-7340 Fax (809) 508-7110