Alfredo Guzman Saladin
Board Member

He is Managing Partner of Guzmán Ariza’s Bávaro/Punta Cana, La Romana, and Casa de Campo offices, leader of the firm’s real estate practice, and Co-Director of its Corporate Group.

Alfredo’s practice focuses on real estate, business, and commercial lending, with a strong emphasis on hotel and resort development and the broader hospitality sector. His experience includes hotel acquisitions and dispositions, development and financing, mixed-use development projects, hotel management agreements, residential developments, and related transactions.

He has advised multinational clients on major transactions, including Fosun International Group’s US$428 million IPO involving its Dominican Republic assets, including Club Med, on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He has also advised international corporations on significant mergers and acquisitions in the country; assisted the Canadian Sunwing group in one of the largest single-bank financing transactions for a US$300 million customer credit facility; and advised Waste Free Oceans on a collaboration agreement with the Dominican Government for a river restoration and regional recycling plant project.

He regularly advises Wells Fargo Bank on the modification and enforcement of multimillion-dollar liens and mortgages secured by high-value commercial and private properties.

He has been quoted on several occasions by The New York Times for his knowledge of real estate and tax law and has published numerous articles on real estate in the Dominican Republic, corporate law, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, and secured lending. He has also been recognized by leading international legal directories, including Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and IFLR.

He holds an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States, a law degree, and has completed additional international and continuing education programs.

Giselle Perez
Alternate

Partner at Guzmán Ariza and Head of the Environmental and Regulatory Law Department, where she provides comprehensive legal counsel on matters related to land use, the legal and environmental feasibility of master plans, community-related issues, and social programs, among others, for large-scale real estate, tourism, energy, hydrocarbon, and renewable energy projects.

She is a pioneer in the practice of environmental law in the Dominican Republic and one of the country’s most experienced professionals in the field. Her practice focuses on regulatory law, environmental permitting, protected areas, and projects with significant environmental impact. She also has extensive experience conducting environmental legal compliance audits in the tourism, construction, and agribusiness sectors.

She serves as an environmental consultant to the Environmental Committee of the Senate of the Dominican Republic on projects with significant social and environmental implications, and as a legal and environmental compliance auditor in the construction and agribusiness sectors.

She has been recognized by Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500 for her extensive experience in environmental and regulatory law. She also holds a postgraduate degree in Environmental Assessment and Sustainability from the Complutense University of Madrid, in addition to having completed various international and continuing education programs.