Jesús Francos Rodríguez

Partner

Medina Garnes

Jesús Francos Rodríguez joined MGA in 2006 as a senior associate lawyer and since 2014 has been a partner of the firm. Before joining MGA, he worked for 4 years at the firm Pereyra & Asociados.

He has international studies in Administrative Law, Public Procurement and Telecommunications Law, these being the areas of practice that he habitually exercises together with tax, constitutional, competition, civil law, and litigation in general, among others.

In the field of telecommunications, he has assisted in the legal representation of telecommunications service providers in various administrative processes held before the regulatory body, related to the use and administration of the radio spectrum, free and fair competition, interconnection contracts, among others. He has also participated in the legal representation of the importing sectors in the first dumping investigations and safeguard measures carried out in our country in application of Law No. 1-02 on Unfair Trade Practices and Safeguard Measures. As a partner of the firm, he has participated in the first competition investigation processes carried out by the regulatory agency of our country. In constitutional matters, he had the opportunity to be part of the legal team that obtained the first interpretative ruling issued in constitutional matters. In the tax field, he has advised and defended in court the first cases in which the Dominican tax authorities made ex officio determinations based on the application of Transfer Pricing rules.

In the field of arbitration law, he has participated in domestic arbitration processes, in which he has served both as president of the arbitral court and as legal representative of the claimants and defendants.

He has written several articles for the "Gaceta Judicial" magazine, has participated as a panelist in international congresses and seminars on administrative law, and works as a professor at PUCMM, both at the undergraduate level, teaching Administrative Law I and II, and at the postgraduate level as a professor in the Masters of Tax Law and Administrative Law. He has also been a teacher for the National School of the Public Ministry in its Specialization Course in Administrative Law.

He is part of the list of arbitrators of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Center of the Chamber of Commerce and Production of Santo Domingo and is an active member of the Ibero-American Association for Regulation Studies (ASIER).

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