ECIJA DVMS has expertise in trusts and project finance work, and the team is experienced in designing innovative financing solutions, including IPOs and complex transactions in the real estate, tourism, industrial, and public sectors, as well as advising on financial and capital markets regulation. Notable mandates include advising the Ministry of Housing on the structuring and financing of over 7,500 low-income homes. Christian Molina counsels clients on complex financing operations and public offerings, from designing public offerings in the real estate sector, to counselling airlines on the financed acquisitions of both used and new aeroplanes, and debt restructurings. Polibio Valenzuela, who leads alongside Molina, focuses his practice on financial services, corporate and securities matters. Erika Gomez and Paola Checo are the key associates in the team.
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Work Department
Banking & finance, Energy, Foreign Investment, Trust, Corporate/M&A, Leisure & Tourism
Position
Partner
Career
Polibio is Partner in the areas of Banking & Finance, Energy and Natural Resources, Foreign Investment and Special Regimes, Leisure and Tourism, Trust, and Corporate/M&A at ECIJA Dominican Republic.
Polibio focuses his practice on financial and banking services, capital markets advisory, mergers and acquisitions, international business transactions, and the development and operation of hotels, as well as conventional and renewable energy projects.
He regularly represents lenders and borrowers in working capital loans, asset-based financings and project finance transactions; issuers and underwriters in securities offerings and securitizations; private entities in restructurings and reorganizations; and financial institutions, including banks, exchange bureaus, broker/dealers and investment funds, in transactional and regulatory matters. He also represents buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions across sectors such as banking and finance, retail, utilities, and hospitality services, and advises producers, developers and investment funds in the development of energy projects.
Polibio, who is admitted to practice law in the Dominican Republic and the State of New York, has worked as an attorney in the Dominican Republic, Houston, Texas and Washington, D.C., in preeminent global firms and in the Legal Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He regularly participates in discussion forums on securitizations, trusts, public offerings, restructurings and due diligence processes.
He currently serves as Co-Chair of the International Finance & Securities Committee of the American Bar Association, where he has been a member since 2009, and is also Vice-President of Centrocámara de Comercio de la República Dominicana, the chamber of commerce of all Central American countries and the Dominican Republic. Polibio is also an independent Board Member of several corporations.
Languages
Spanish, English and French
Memberships
He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Dominican Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE), Enlaces, Angeles Investors Network, Inc., and the Willem C. Vis Moot Alumni Association.
Education
He obtained an Executive MBA from Barna Management School, an LL.M. in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University, a Master’s Degree in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM), and an LL.B., summa cum laude, from PUCMM.
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‘As clients, we feel very well advised by the ECIJA team. Their response times are good, and whenever we have questions about certain topics, they cover them very clearly.'
‘In this case, we worked with Elba Ureña and René Marrero. They are always very responsive, and their handling of local law is impeccable. Their response times are constantly improving.'
Key clients
- TC Latin American Partners
- CCI Puesto de Bolsa
Work highlights
Assisted CCI Puesto de Bolsa with the structuring of a corporate bond issuance valued at $300m.