Career biography

Roberto González Ricart is Head of Legal and Regulatory Compliance at Amergent Partners – Sociedad Administradora de Fondos de Inversión, S.A. He is a Dominican legal and regulatory executive with more than a decade of experience spanning capital markets, investment funds, private equity, banking and complex transactional matters.

His career has encompassed three key areas of the Dominican financial system: securities regulation, international banking and regulated investment fund management. This experience has shaped a practical and commercially focused approach to legal leadership, combining regulatory insight, corporate governance, commercial strategy and transaction execution.

At Amergent Partners, Roberto leads the legal, regulatory compliance and anti-money laundering functions and advises the board, Investment Committee, Risk Committee and senior management. Since joining the firm, he has contributed to the development of its legal and regulatory platform, including its governance framework, internal controls, fund approval processes and transaction execution procedures. He has also been involved in obtaining approval for two investment funds.

Roberto plays an active role in Amergent’s transactional and capital-raising activities, particularly in the structuring, negotiation and execution of significant real estate mandates through its investment fund platform. His work encompasses negotiations, legal due diligence, fund-level structuring and Investment Committee governance, bringing together real estate law, investment fund regulation, fiduciary considerations, investor protection and corporate governance to create executable institutional transactions.

Before joining Amergent, Roberto worked at the Superintendence of the Securities Market of the Dominican Republic, where he developed his career as a senior regulatory lawyer and contributed to significant milestones in the country’s capital markets. His work included participating, from the regulator’s perspective, in the Dominican Republic’s first public offering of shares, as well as subsequent equity transactions and preferred-share structures. He was also involved in the review and authorisation of investment vehicles, public offerings, listed companies and market participants, including a substantial proportion of the open-ended and closed-ended investment funds operating in the Dominican market today. He also contributed to regulations introduced under Law 249-17 that continue to form part of the market’s supervisory framework.

Earlier in his career, Roberto spent five years at Scotiabank, where he held roles spanning regulatory compliance, commercial law, corporate banking support and financial crime controls, gaining experience within a highly regulated, cross-border banking environment.

Roberto has undertaken specialised legal training in securities market law, financial transactions, banking products, corporate governance and investment vehicles. He also completed a global programme for securities regulators delivered by Harvard Law School and IOSCO. He is a member of ADOSAFI’s Legal and Compliance Committee, where he contributes to industry discussions concerning the development of the Dominican investment fund market.

Roberto believes that the in-house legal function should be an institutional advantage rather than a bottleneck. His approach is commercially focused, risk-aware and results-driven, helping organisations move forward with discipline, strong governance and confidence.