Practice Expertise
- Banking
- Corporate and Business
- Energy
- Estate and Trust
Areas of Practice
- Banking
- Corporate and Business
- Energy
- Estate and Trust
- Insurance
- Mining
- Project Financing
- Real Estate
- Securities
- Trade and Customs
- Trade Investment View More
Profile
Ms. Pellerano advises local and international companies in connection with project financing and corporate matters, she also has broad experience on transactions involving corporations, off shore and incorporations of companies, real estate, including acquisition, financing and disposition.
She is experienced in structuring business transactions so as to address both local and global challenges, especially in mergers and acquisitions, project financing and corporate restructurings. Over the last years, she has participated in highly complex business deals in the Dominican Republic.
Some representative transactions include:
Assistance to Barrick Gold Corporation, the largest gold producer in the world, with their complete installation and operation of the Pueblo Viejo gold mine project. The project, valued at US$2.7 billion, is the largest foreign investment project in the Dominican Republic. As part of the project, Ms. Pellerano and the team has advised Barrick in:
The purchase of two power barges (barcazas) for US$70 million.
The US$60 million acquisition of the MonterÃÂÂo energy generation plant.
A real estate investment of US$45 million for an extension of their mining project in Las Lagunas.
Assistance to IFC in the US$40 million finance for the expansion of the Punta Cana airport, one of the main airports in the Dominican Republic.
Counsel the Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) in a US$56 million loan to Sol Group, for the purchase of Shell's 340 gas pumps in the Dominican Republic.
She is experienced in structuring business transactions so as to address both local and global challenges, especially in mergers and acquisitions, project financing and corporate restructurings. Over the last years, she has participated in highly complex business deals in the Dominican Republic.
Some representative transactions include:
Assistance to Barrick Gold Corporation, the largest gold producer in the world, with their complete installation and operation of the Pueblo Viejo gold mine project. The project, valued at US$2.7 billion, is the largest foreign investment project in the Dominican Republic. As part of the project, Ms. Pellerano and the team has advised Barrick in:
The purchase of two power barges (barcazas) for US$70 million.
The US$60 million acquisition of the MonterÃÂÂo energy generation plant.
A real estate investment of US$45 million for an extension of their mining project in Las Lagunas.
Assistance to IFC in the US$40 million finance for the expansion of the Punta Cana airport, one of the main airports in the Dominican Republic.
Counsel the Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank) in a US$56 million loan to Sol Group, for the purchase of Shell's 340 gas pumps in the Dominican Republic.
Education
Masters in General Legal Studies, graduated with the highest honor in her class. Georgetown University Law Center, 2007.
LLB, Summa Cum Laude, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2006
Areas of Practice
- Banking
- Corporate and Business
- Energy
- Estate and Trust
- Insurance
- Mining
- Project Financing
- Real Estate
- Securities
- Trade and Customs
- Trade Investment
Professional Career
Professional Associations
- Foreign Lawyers Association, Georgetown University
Articles
Analysis of the Constitutional Rights of Taxpayers in the Dominican Republic.
Co-author of the Doing Business Guide in the Dominican Republic. 25th edition, September 2011.
Executive Summaries about the different corporate resolutions and laws in the Dominican Republic and Energy regulations
Co-author of the Doing Business Guide in the Dominican Republic. 25th edition, September 2011.
Executive Summaries about the different corporate resolutions and laws in the Dominican Republic and Energy regulations
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