Pedro O. Gamundi

Pedro assists multinational clients in the structuring and placement of foreign direct investments in different sectors of the Dominican Republic’s economy, and advises them while negotiating, executing and securing international financial transactions, including institutional private lending, asset-based lending, project financing and private offerings. He also advises on banking, insurance, monetary, taxation, aviation, telecommunications, energy, mining and environmental matters. For nearly 10 years, he acted as lead external Dominican counsel to a major banking group with operations in several Latin American and European countries, as well as in Puerto Rico and Florida in the US. In such capacity, he assisted this group in obtaining a license to operate as a full-service commercial bank in the Dominican Republic and acquiring a duly licensed insurance company. For seven years, he sat with the board of directors of the local bank as its external counsel.

In 2023, Pedro became an emeritus member of the Georgetown Law Alumni Latin America Advisory Board, after serving on the board since its foundation in 2014. Previously, Pedro served as a member, vice president and then as president of the Board of Directors of Fundación Dominicana de Desarrollo (FDD), a not-for-profit organization recognized as a regional pioneer in adopting micro-financing as a tool for social promotion and economic development. Additionally, Pedro taught economic law and foreign investment law for several years at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in Santo Domingo and acted as coordinator of the Master’s in Business Law and International Litigation program jointly offered by PUCMM and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain. He also worked as a consultant to the Harvard Institute for International Development and the United Nations Development Program in the tax reform project for the Dominican Republic.