GARCIA TALLAJ - Attorneys at Law

We work closely with our clients to ensure their businesses are structured for maximum efficiency and minimum risk. Our team advises on all aspects of corporate formation, governance, and management — from incorporating and maintaining companies and branches, to handling private contracting essential to daily operations. Our counsel covers the full spectrum of corporate and commercial matters, including partner and shareholder relations, investment structures, share transfers, capital adjustments, and profit distribution schemes. We also assist in the incorporation and ongoing compliance of non-profit organizations, ensuring they remain in good standing.

Our experience in commercial law extends to drafting, negotiating, and terminating a wide range of business contracts, including distribution and supply agreements, joint ventures, franchise and multilevel structures, manufacturing arrangements, and purchase or sale transactions. At our firm, we understand that every binding contract represents a pivotal step in both business and personal affairs. We therefore provide comprehensive contract review and negotiation services to safeguard our clients’ interests and minimize potential exposure. Before any agreement is executed, we ensure our clients fully understand their rights and obligations, enabling them to make well-informed decisions aligned with their goals.

We offer high-quality tax advisory services with a focus on the planning and implementation of efficient corporate and fiscal structures. Our firm is recognized not only for the excellence of our legal services but also for our comprehensive, business-oriented approach. We go beyond the strictly legal perspective to provide clients with strategic guidance that integrates legal, financial, and operational considerations.

We have extensive experience in structuring foreign investment in the Dominican Republic, guiding Dominican investors abroad, and reorganizing corporate operations, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Our multidisciplinary team, composed of lawyers, economists, and accountants, is dedicated exclusively to tax matters. Together, they design innovative and practical solutions that align with our clients’ objectives and ensure the long-term efficiency of their operations.

Our services aim to align the interests of the family with those of the family business and its assets. Estate Planning is a multidisciplinary practice that addresses the needs of the family and its members in a comprehensive and strategic way. Our team functions as a specialized boutique practice, where each lawyer provides highly personalized service with absolute confidentiality when dealing with sensitive family matters. We focus on advising business families with a deep understanding of the three fundamental pillars that shape their estate planning: Family, Business, and Patrimony. Our counsel is directed toward creating structures that foster both a harmonious and efficient management of the family enterprise and an orderly, equitable distribution of the family inheritance.

Our interdisciplinary team provides high-quality advisory services in sustainability and environmental matter. The Environment and Sustainable Business practice combines legal, technical, and social expertise to guide clients in developing and managing sustainable projects and investments. We advise throughout the entire project cycle — from structuring and permitting to operation and decommissioning — ensuring compliance and efficiency, including tax considerations. We also represent clients before environmental authorities and in administrative or judicial proceedings, offering technical and legal support. Our approach integrates social responsibility and promotes green, sustainable, and climate-conscious business growth.

Garcia Tallaj offers comprehensive legal services in real estate and construction, assisting clients with property acquisitions, sales, leasing, and development projects. Our expertise encompasses navigating complex transactions and ensuring compliance with local regulations, providing tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of each client. We know the real estate market and understand our clients’ needs. That is why we offer a comprehensive portfolio of legal services designed to help them develop their projects efficiently and successfully. Our team provides end-to-end advice and assistance in structuring, negotiating, documenting, and closing all types of real estate transactions.

We advise on major private real estate developments — particularly along the North Coast of the Dominican Republic — supporting leading developers, landowners, concessionaires, and real estate investment funds, among other key actors in the sector. Our team brings broad experience across commercial real estate law, urban planning, hospitality, and agribusiness. We work in close coordination with colleagues specialized in tax, litigation, arbitration, insolvency, and banking and financial services, allowing us to offer an integrated, multidimensional service tailored to each client’s objectives.

Our team provides advice and representation to families and their members on the legal aspects of personal and property relationships. We focus on guiding families through the management of their relationships and the resolution of conflict situations — including matters involving couples, children and their care, and the financial aspects of family life. This work is carried out through negotiation, legal counseling, and representation before notaries, administrative bodies, and judicial authorities whenever required. We also have extensive experience assisting clients whose personal or family circumstances extend across multiple countries. In such cases, we collaborate with lawyers from other jurisdictions to ensure that each solution is fully adapted to the applicable local laws and the specific needs of our clients and their families.

Our team advises both domestic and international clients on a wide range of labor and employment matters affecting individuals and companies operating in the Dominican Republic. This includes guidance on personnel hiring, the management of individual and collective labor relations, the implications of executing employment contracts under Dominican law, and the adoption of internal policies and labor committees. We also conduct labor audits and due diligence reviews to ensure compliance and minimize risk.

Beyond day-to-day advisory work, we assist our clients throughout investigations, disciplinary procedures, and negotiations related to contract terminations, collective dismissals, voluntary retirement programs, corporate restructurings, and workplace harassment claims. We also support the design, modification, and implementation of employee benefit plans. Our team has extensive experience representing both individuals and corporations before the labor courts and administrative authorities, as well as conducting conciliations before the Ministry of Labor.

Our Litigation, Arbitration, and Insolvency practice is recognized for its excellence, strategic perspective, and ability to combine deep legal knowledge with a clear understanding of our clients’ business objectives. We are specialists in risk management, working closely with each client to understand their operations, anticipate potential areas of legal exposure, and design proactive strategies to minimize risk and protect their corporate reputation. Our lawyers are not only skilled litigators but also experienced business advisors. They combine their legal expertise, commercial insight, and negotiation skills to deliver practical, results-oriented solutions. Whether defending our clients’ interests in court, before administrative authorities, or through arbitration, we are committed to securing the most effective outcomes.

For every case, we assemble a dedicated team whose experience and practice area best match the complexity of the matter. When possible, we prioritize business-oriented resolutions through alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms, always with the goal of safeguarding our clients’ legal and commercial interests.