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Ulises Cabrera strengthens its Energy, Mining, Competition and Economic Regulation practice with the addition of Mirna Amiama Nielsen  

August 7, 2024

Ulises Cabrera has announced the addition of its new partner, Mirna J. Amiama Nielsen, with more than 35 years of experience as an attorney, to strengthen and expand the firm’s Energy (electricity and hydrocarbons), Mining, Competition Law and Economic Regulation practice.

Mirna J. Amiama Nielsen is the lawyer of reference for the electricity industry and competition law in the Dominican Republic. She has high profile business experience advising multinational companies, and the Dominican Government, especially in electricity matters, as well as in the public procurement and contracting market.

She is an effective negotiator for national and multinational companies, as well as for the Government of the Dominican Republic in commercial contracts, energy purchases and sales, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, public service concessions, exploitation of natural resources and public-private partnerships (PPP), among others.

It is noteworthy that during the years 2020-2022 she was the external legal advisor to the Minister of Energy and Mines of the Dominican Republic, leading the legal team in the sectors of thermal power generation, electricity distribution, renewable energies, mining and hydrocarbons, as well as in the dissolution of the Dominican Corporation of State Electrical Companies (Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales).

Ms. Amiama has always been at the forefront of the most innovative areas of practice in Dominican law, she has been recognized as a pioneer in both competition law and electricity law; she imprints her practice with her stamp of energy, quality, teamwork and search for solutions for her clients, taking into consideration their business perspectives and risks.

The firm Ulises Cabrera has been legal advisor in energy projects in the Dominican Republic for many years, and stands out for its external advice to the State in the drafting of the current General Electricity Law, and to regulatory bodies of the electricity system. Ulises Cabrera welcomes Lic. Mirna J. Amiama Nielsen as a strategic ally that reinforces and expands the legal services of high quality and ethical standards that characterize Ulises Cabrera.

‘The image of progress and growth that she projects, and the enthusiastic receptiveness of Ulises Cabrera and his team to my professional proposal at this stage, which guarantees the mutual development and growth in the legal practice, to serve the industries of the electricity, mining, hydrocarbons, as well as in competition law, have motivated my integration to this outstanding team,’ said Ms. Amiama Nielsen.

According to the Firm’s Managing Partner José Cruz Campillo, ‘the incorporation of Mirna marks an important milestone in the sustained growth and evolution of the firm, incorporating an element of high value specialised in a sector of relevance and boom in the local and international market’. ‘We see in Mirna an important reinforcement for our energy, mining, competition and economic regulation practice areas and a professional with the strictest ethical sense in the practice of law’.

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