Yeara Vidal offers continuous consulting services to asset management companies specializing in pension and health funds as well as insurance companies to address regulatory issues and all other operations aspects. Yeara Vidal has played a key role in the negotiations between the private sector and the regulators towards the application of the Social Security Law of the Dominican Republic. Yeara Vidal has represented the most important administrators of the pension and health risks funds in the negotiation and drafting of the rules for the application of the Law.

Yeara Vidal is one of the leading firms in matters related to doing business in and out of the Dominican Republic. Expertise regarding investments is extensive and overlaps horizontally to many of our other practice areas. Yeara Vidal’s support includes a holistic assessment of the investment process for foreign and local economic agents. The firm regularly devises bespoke cost and tax efficient (asset/investment) arrangements, including selecting the most suitable corporate vehicles for different types of ventures. Our skills extend from simple business undertakings, to trusts, private equity structuring and complex corporate integrated structures. Yeara Vidal offers step-by-step assistance for foreign entrepreneurs regarding establishing in the Dominican Republic, migration affairs, naturalization status, customs clearing, asset purchases and household assistance. The firm provides guidance and information on the main legal and economic indicators of all sectors of the Dominican economy, including financial services, securities markets, telecommunications, construction, media and entertainment, transportation, retail and wholesale commerce, real estate and tourism

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yeara vidal is vastly experienced in the design and implementation of security packages that provide its clients with the upmost confidence in project finance structures. Yeara Vidal Consultants take advantage of their business law skills as well as of the cooperation between the firm’s different Departments to fully appreciate the business details behind each project finance deal. This synergy, as well as meticulous due diligence work, allows the team to provide clients with a clear view of all legal risks inherent to a specific project, as well as feasible solutions with regards to possible credit enhancement. Additionally, Yeara Vidal has been a constant participant in benchmark project finance deals for port concessions, both maritime and air, energy generation and distribution, real estate and tourism, infrastructure, among others

Yeara Vidal has strategically positioned itself through a qualified team of Consultants with both regulatory skills as well as financial and economic understanding of key issues for securities law. The firm has actively advised potential issuers interested in accessing local capital markets and has participated in numerous private placements deals as well as in the licensing and creation of most market participants, including the Dominican securities exchange, securities intermediaries and investment fund administrators. Moreover, Yeara Vidal advises international and domestic brokerage firms and market players regarding high profile cross border securities trades in the local markets.

Yeara Vidal has strategically positioned itself through a qualified team of Consultants with both regulatory skills as well as financial and economic understanding of key issues for securities law. The firm has actively advised potential issuers interested in accessing local capital markets and has participated in numerous private placements deals as well as in the licensing and creation of most market participants, including the Dominican securities exchange, securities intermediaries and investment fund administrators. Moreover, Yeara Vidal advises international and domestic brokerage firms and market players regarding high profile cross border securities trades in the local markets.

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With its business-oriented mindset, Yeara Vidal excels in legal engineering and planning. Taking into consideration all the activities in their clients’ business, Yeara Vidal provides advise in the legal structure selection process taking into consideration market, operational and legal risks while considering how their clients do business. The legal engineering process developed by Yeara Vidal, guarantees the adaptability of its clients’ businesses structures to the changing needs brought by the world economy. Yeara Vidal has proven expertise in the organization of family businesses from a wide assortment of industries including energy, construction, entertainment and banking. This practice is supported by the traditional legal practices and it is enhanced by the non-legal practices developed in Yeara Vidal.

Yeara Vidal provides management consulting services amongst its non-legal practices. Yeara Vidal has developed a broad experience in the creation of innovative organizational structures for small, medium and large enterprises. Among other services, the firm assists its clients in the development and review of their functional manuals and job descriptions as to minimize the anti-selection risk in recruitment and to decrease the learning curve of new resources; also Yeara Vidal assists its clients with their payroll obligations assuring compliance with the Dominican Republic social security, tax and labor regulations. Yeara Vidal’s management consulting practice group is well versed in designing and implementing new processes and workflows aimed at increasing productivity and client service as well as providing considerable decreases in costs and response time

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Strategic skills have always been a defining trait of Yeara Vidal. Yeara Vidal’s dynamic participation provides valuable guidance in the definition of the corporate mission, vision and values for a demanding market. Having a bird’s eye view over different industries, the firm provides consultancy services in its clients’ strategic planning process by assisting in the definition of short-, mid- and long-term goals, the selection of strategies as well as aligning key personnel with the business plan and the administration of the execution of the plan. Most important of all, Yeara Vidal guarantees the creation of the appropriate mechanisms for the efficient management of its clients’ strategies to reach their goals.

Yeara Vidal also assists its clients in the management of specific projects. From team assembly to budgeting and risk determination and control, Yeara Vidal provides its clients with the information and tools necessary to analyze and decide on the execution of their projects.

Yeara vidal’s practice is exceptionally well positioned in antitrust matters. This is partly due to the team’s strong interdisciplinary academic formation and unique insight in law, regulation and economics from both a private and public perspective.Yeara Vidal is a leading advocate of the economic and strategic analysis of legal rules, placing special emphasis on competition and antitrust issues. The firm has been constantly retained for strategic advice on antitrust compliance, including competition and trade issues, consumer protection, conduct of business concerns and abuse of dominance situations.

Safeguarding the rule of law lies at the core of all of Yeara Vidal’s practice and industry areas. The firm’s Consultants are particularly skilful with the fundamentals of constitutional matters in all the specialized areas of law. The firm has actively pursued constitutionality claims before the entire judicial spectrum and offers advice to private entities and public authorities in matters of constitutional law.

Yeara Vidal’s human rights practice is also highly respected for its thorough understanding and expertise in the protection of economic and social rights for individuals, institutions and corporations.

Yeara Vidal’s energy practice is based on a solid understanding of the commercial and technological aspects of this pivotal industry. The firm has advised both domestic and foreign investors in all matters associated to the financial, operational, environmental, tax and regulatory fundamentals of this practice area, which requires the overlapping expertise and savvy support of corporate practice. Yeara Vidal has assisted businesses in all levels of the production and supply chain of the intricately regulated Dominican energy industry. Yeara Vidal’s top achievements include the strategic planning and design of tax efficient specialized financing structures for electric generators in regional locations, as well as assistance in all regulatory matters, including contractual negotiations with regulators and private concerns involved in all stages of the business.

Environmental and planning concerns are crucial to most industrial undertakings that require the adequate use of land and other natural resources. Yeara Vidal holds a comprehensive knowledge in dealing with the main issues of environmental law, including conflict resolution, project development, environmental compliance, and policymaking. Yeara Vidal has developed tactical timetables for obtaining environmental permitting and licensing schemes. The firm’s green practice is focused on all aspects of environmental planning and compliance. Yeara Vidal Consultants in this practice area maintain effective relationships with regulators throughout all public environmental and urban planning agencies.

Clients entrust Yeara Vidal with numerous aspects of trading in goods. The firm’s expertise and experience in this area includes production, transportation, distribution and sales contracts, as well as international trade, including import and export activities. Yeara Vidal’s Commercial Practice covers all the legal, regulatory, and commercial issues involved.

Yeara Vidal understands public policy. The firm’s success when dealing with governmental agencies is based on an ethical and professional interaction with policymakers. Consultants at Yeara Vidal are leading practitioners and academics in their practice areas, and consequently hold a reputational prestige that appeals to both regulators and governmental officials. Yeara Vidal Consultants are often invited to participate as regulators and arbiters for public regulatory oversight bodies and commercial chambers. Moreover, the firm is actively involved in the development of norms and legislation for the promotion of a sound and efficient regulatory atmosphere in all markets.

In addition, Yeara Vidal advocates the use of ethical principles and values in private and public negotiations, as part of its ongoing program of Sustainable Social Contribution.

Yeara Vidal is a pioneer in Dominican Social Security regulation having an undisputed standing in this practice area. The firm has had a great deal of participation in all aspects of this relatively novel and still largely unknown field, assisting pension fund administrators and health care provider associations, in regulatory and administrative matters as well as litigation and mediation vis-à-vis the social security oversight bodies of the Social Security System. The firm actively advises domestic and foreign companies regarding their social security obligations.

Clients entrust Yeara Vidal with numerous aspects of trading in goods. The firm’s expertise and experience in this area includes production, transportation, distribution and sales contracts, as well as international trade, including import and export activities. Yeara Vidal’s Commercial Practice covers all the legal, regulatory, and commercial issues involved

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yeara vidal advises and assists clients on the negotiation of understandings and agreements. Companies that wish to improve their strategic position in a diverse range of contracts have recognized the firm’s expertise in this area. yeara vidal legal assistance excels in providing the proper instrument for the satisfactory completion of the transaction involved

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When developing corporate structures for its clients, Yeara Vidal strives for creativity and innovation in order to deliver the most efficient results. Shareholders, boards of directors, companies, and corporate groups turn to Yeara Vidal for assistance in matters, such as business vehicles, company incorporation and management, shareholders agreements, equity rights, legal compliance, director’s functions, duties and liabilities, stock exchange requirements, private offerings, corporate joint ventures, and even corporate litigation. In the area of estate and wealth planning, Yeara Vidal offers a diverse range of vehicles and structures in order to adapt the legal services provided to the client’s objectives and needs.

The firm’s skill at designing and implementing efficient structures, taking into consideration the legal, regulatory, business and financial implications of deals, has proven very successful. A broad due diligence process is systematically carried out in order to determine the risks to be reduced or mitigated by the structure and documentation of the transaction. Yeara Vidal has represented shareholders and the stakeholders of corporate acquirers, management teams, sellers and targets, who rely on Yeara Vidal`s expertise and negotiation skills. The firm has been regarded for developing appropriate frameworks that enable business operations to continue smoothly after a transaction has taken place. Some of the firm’s strong areas in this practice include mergers, acquisitions, spin offs and restructurings.

Yeara Vidal offers its clients assistance in all matters regarding the distribution of products. We assist local and international companies in their distribution within the Dominican territory as well as in cross border distribution. We also assist our clients in the design of the most favorable legal, corporate and fiscal structure for the business. Additionally, we register, when applicable, the distribution rights under Dominican Law before the competent authorities. Furthermore we assist our clients in the application and interpretation of international treaties and its influence in these types of contracts

Yeara Vidal has guided its clients for years in the areas of entertainment and media in the design and implementation of business strategies appropriate to their industry, providing legal support to carry out corresponding operations. In addition, Yeara Vidal participated directly in the country’s efforts to promote sustained development of the film industry. In that sense, Yeara Vidal participated as part of the commission formed by the Dominican Government to issue a Film Law containing the proper incentive to attract investment needed to boost the industry. Yeara Vidal provides services to the entertainment industry covering all types of media: TV, movies, music, publishing, advertising, internet, among others.
As for sports, Yeara Vidal provides services for the negotiation and execution of agency agreements, licenses, identity protection and privacy of athletes and sports teams, competence and confidentiality rights, hiring, among others

Without a doubt, the proper protection of intellectual property rights is greatly influenced by the proper registration of such rights as to achieve the effective protection of the same against third parties. Our practice is based not only on the registration process (both local and international), but also takes care of advising our clients to the procedure that meets their needs, including the processes involved to register trade names, trademarks and services, inventions, logos, industrial designs, utility models, licensing, copyright registration, health records, among others

Yeara Vidal has vast experience in Franchising Agreements representing both Franchisors and Franchisees. We assist our clients in the design and implementation of the most efficient legal structure for the operation of the business, including the necessary assistance regarding the protection of intellectual property rights

Always concerned with the proper protection and use of intellectual property assets, we offer our clients an important tool: conducting audits that will allow us to determine if, in fact, such assets are duly protected and are taken full advantage of. We continually stress to our clients that while intellectual property is an important tool for development, the results will depend on its correct management and use.

Yeara Vidal assists its clients in matters regarding trademarks licensing agreements, normally within dealings regarding other transactions or businesses (Franchising Agreements, Distribution Agreements, etc.). We assist our clients in the negotiation of the contractual terms as well as in the registry, before the competent authorities, of the licensed rights. .

An essential part of protecting intellectual property is in the proper use and timely registered rights, and prevent unauthorized third parties make use of them. In this sense, Yeara Vidal provides watch services for trademarks, logos and other copyrighted by their clients for the purpose of early detection of potential violations of their intellectual property rights and take appropriate action.

Yeara Vidal successfully handles civil claims for clients in a wide range of industries, some of which include banking, insurance, hotels, food and beverages, retail and construction, among others.

The firm has vast experience in debt recovery and has represented some of the most important financial institutions with presence in the Dominican Republic as well as individuals and private entities seeking to recover their credits. In addition, Yeara Vidal handles a considerable part of the country’s cases dealing with tort law and routinely represents the interest of both plaintiffs and defendants.

Yeara Vidal has been widely successful representing the interest of its clients in commercial litigation. Our experience includes derivative suits, contractual claims, conflicts between stockholders, distributorship claims, consumer law conflicts and intellectual property litigation, as well as conflict management in regulated industries such as pension funds, banking and insurance.

Our team is unique in combining a deep knowledge of commercial law as well as conflict management skills. Such balance differentiates the firm’s practice, which relies on our Consultants’ proven ability to understand the business language of our clients, design the proper strategy and therefore add value.

Our criminal law practice ranges from misdemeanors to more complex crimes like fraud, aggravated theft and money laundering. Yeara Vidal’s relevant experience includes the supervision of the strategy implemented in one of the most shocking banking frauds in the country, as well as successfully representing plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of fraud and aggravated theft cases.

Yeara Vidal takes advantage of its solid understanding of corporate law to properly design legal strategies regarding white-collar crimes pursuant to our legal framework.

Yeara Vidal believes in planning, therefore, the firm has developed an extensive practice that is based on anticipating customer potential contingencies related to labor and to propose innovative solutions to reduce this impact. The firm provides advice to clients, suggesting improvements to internal processes and assisting in project management to minimize risk. Yeara Vidal also has extensive experience in social security issues through participation in the bills, creation and installation of the Dominican Social Security System, as well as provided ongoing advice to some of the most important market participants.

The Real Estate & Tourism Department assists mixed-use tourist-real estate developments in a wide array of activities including design and implementation of corporate and tax matters, shareholders agreements, joint venture agreements, condominium incorporation and development, drafting of the real estate purchase contracts, assistance to the sales team, financing and every aspect of the architectural design, construction and construction management for the project.

Assistance is also provided in connection with licenses and permits, land use and zoning for the projects by leading the applicable filings before the competent authorities.

Yeara Vidal provides assistance in purchase contracts, property administration agreements, commercial leases, sale and lease back, incorporation and operation of condominium associations, real estate finance and restructuring. Furthermore, the Department covers all corporate aspects of the real estate operations for their clients.
On the other hand, the firm possesses a vast experience in land survey operations dealing with the public administration including Land Registry and the special courts for real estate matters.

Amongst our services we offer accounting and taxation auditing, through which we exanimate and evaluate in detail the accounting records of the client, as well as their tax filings, with the final intention of proving out the integrity and exactitude of the records mentioned above; taking into consideration the best accounting practices that are applicable and the current taxation dispositions. Once the analytical process has taken place we proceed in giving our recommendations in order to optimize the clients processes and filings.

Our team analyzes systematically and rigorously all the likely activities to be developed by the client against the potential taxation measures that may be applicable. Having effectuated this exercise results in the most efficient and strategic structure to carry out specific, as well as recurrent, operations, maintaining in all situations a strong attachment to strict ethical standards, constant actualization and specialized preparation amongst the members of our team.

We work on tax planning projects independently or as an integral part of the client’s involvement in other projects or practices, through a dynamic inter-departmental service structure.