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Rita Mota Abinader
Associate
Rita Mota Abinader is a Corporate associate in our Santo Domingo office where she advises domestic and international clients on corporate, commercial, tax-related and regulatory matters. Her practice includes mergers and acquisitions, as well as securities and banking matters related to doing business in the Dominican Republic.
Rita has supported clients across the free trade zones, transportation, project financing, education, beverages, mass consumption and government sectors. Her experience spans cross-border transactions, regulatory compliance, contract and argument drafting and corporate governance. She frequently collaborates across practice areas, contributing legal opinions and strategic insights. Rita was part of the team that assisted a local company with its initial public offering of shares in the Dominican securities market – the first of its kind in the Dominican Republic.
She also has expertise in preparing legal opinions on the enforceability of provisions under the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and the Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA) with respect to Dominican financial entities.
- Advising and assisting a local company developing a hotel with certain corporate contentious matters.
- Assisting a local company with its initial public offering of shares in the Dominican securities market – the first of its kind in the Dominican Republic.
- Drafting, for a foreign financial entity, of a legal opinion on the enforceability of International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) master agreement provisions with respect to Dominican financial entities.
- Drafting, for a foreign financial entity, of a legal memorandum on repurchase transactions with Dominican multiple services banks.
- Advice and assistance to a foreign financial entity in the execution of a repurchase transaction with a Dominican broker dealer.
- Participating in and rendering legal advice on the dissolution and liquidation of a Dominican governmental agency.
- Participating in due diligence procedures of target companies for financing projects of a local investment fund.
- Assisting with and drafting of legal documentation to assign receivables to a Dominican trust (fideicomiso).
- Participating in due diligence procedures for the acquisition of target entities or assets in the Dominican Republic.
- Advising and assisting clients with the incorporation of Dominican legal entities.
- Rendering legal advice and assisting clients with the establishment of branches of foreign companies in the Dominican Republic.
- Advising local and foreign clients on the upkeep of legal entities in the Dominican Republic.
- Advising local and foreign clients on corporate restructuring, capital increase or reduction, dissolution and liquidation matters of Dominican legal entities.
- Assisting clients with the obtainment, update or amendment of authorizations, registries or permits before Dominican authorities, such as the Mercantile Registry, the Tax Authority, the Customs Authority, the Social Security Treasury, the Civil Aviation Authority, the Government Procurement and Contracting Authority, the Superintendence of Insurance and the National Council of Free Trade Zones.
- Advising and assisting clients with succession processes under Dominican law.
Education
- University of Glasgow, Master of Laws (LL.M.), Corporate and Financial Law, Distinction, 2020
- Instituto Global de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales and Universidad de Salamanca, Masters, Administrative Law, 2019
- Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), Santo Domingo, LL.B., Summa Cum Laude, 2017
Admissions
- Dominican Republic, 2017
Memberships & Affiliations
- National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE)
- Dominican Association of FinTech Companies (ADOFINTECH)
Languages
- Spanish
- English