Latin Counsel | Pamela Benzán Arbaje

Pamela Benzán Arbaje

Partner

Guzmán Ariza Abogados y Consultores

Advises international and local clients in their commercial and investment matters in the Dominican Republic.
Counsels in most of the restructuring and insolvency cases currently pending in the Dominican courts.
Expert assistant to the conciliator in 2 of the most complex and important commercial restructuring cases in the Dominican Republic.
Represents entrepreneurs, start-ups, private equity companies and joint ventures in a wide variety of industries.
Focuses her practice on advising local and international clients in private mergers and acquisitions and venture capital transactions.
She represents a wide range of domestic and international companies, including financial institutions and investment funds in business transactions
She has experience advising clients on corporate and financing transactions, including the documentation of various types of asset-based and cash flow credit facilities, in differentindustries.
Her extensive experience in corporate restructuring has led her to be one of the most sought-after lawyers as a speaker for seminars, events and media.
Coordinator of the commercial restructuring observatory of the Chamber of Commerce and Production of Santo Domingo.
Latin Lawyer - "GRR Live 4th Annual Restructuring conference", New York, July 11, 2019.

Banking and Finance
Bankruptcy
Business
Capital Markets
Competition
Corporate
Financial Restructuring and Insolvency
Intellectual Property
Project Finance
Transactional

INIDEM Business Law School, Executive Master of Business and Administration, recognized as the student with the highest index and valedictorian.
University of Cambridge, Master of Law (LL. M), specialization in International Investment Arbitration, Antitrust Law, Intellectual Property and Economics of Law and Regulation, 2016.
Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), LL. B, summa cum laude, 2014.

Coordinator of the commercial restructuring observatory of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Production of the Dominican Republic (FEDOCAMARAS).
Currently working as co-author of the restructuring and liquidation section of the Dominican Legal Dictionary under the editorial direction of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language.
Advises the Restructuring Commission and the Legal Department of the Santo Domingo Chamber of Commerce and Production on restructuring issues.
Highlighted as a recommended lawyer by the global ranking institution "The Legal 500".
Coordinator of the observatory of commercial restructuring of the Chamber of Commerce and Production of Santo Domingo.
Member of the Bar Association of the Dominican Republic.
Scholarship holder of the Presidency of the Dominican Republic, the Ministry of Youth and the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCYT).
Executive Director of the Law Review of UNIBE (2013-2014).
Member of the Organizing Committee of the first and second edition of the UNIBE Free Legal Assistance Fair (LEX-UNIBE, 2013 and 2014 editions).
Collaborator of COLADIC-RD and the Human Rights Clinic of the UNIBE Law School (2014).
Member of the Legal Research Committee of the Law Students Group of UNIBE (2012-2013).

"Private M&A" Dominican Republic chapter, co-author, Lexology – Getting the Deal Through, 2020, 2021, 2022.
"Restructuring & Insolvency" Dominican Republic chapter, co-author, Lexology – Getting the Deal Through, 2020, 2021.
"Legal Cross Border Merger Control Questionnaire", 2021.
"Americas Restructuring Review" Dominican Republic chapter, co-author, GRR – Global Restructuring Review insight, 2019, 2020, 2021.
"M&A in the Dominican Republic", Lexology Navigator, 2018, 2019, 2020.
"World Bank Group, Women, Business and the Law", collaborator, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
"Restructuring in the Dominican Republic", co-author, Getting the Deal Through, 2018, 2019, 2020.
"International Intellectual Property Law: The Year in Review", American Bar Association, 2016.
"Money Laundering and Intellectual Property". Gaceta Judicial, 2017.
"Conflict of Jurisdiction in Condominium Law in relation to collection of common expenses", 2010.