Francisco Álvarez

Founding Partner of Headrick Rizik Alvarez & Fernández.  His professional practice has fundamentally developed in all areas of litigation and alternate dispute resolution, including arbitration, mediation and conciliation. He also works in areas of banking and corporate law, negotiations in the area of M&A as well as others, and works on special projects in the area of telecommunications- including litigation in the administrative and constitutional courts.

• Currently advises the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic to participate on behalf of the Central Bank in the accusation before the criminal courts of the individuals responsible of fraud committed at Banco Peravia, which amounts to approximately US$34 MM.
• Represents the Dominican Tax Agency in the largest tax fraud case in the history of the Dominican Republic, involving complex criminal proceedings on a cross-border basis.
• Advised Nynas in a products liability case brought against it by AES, the largest electric company in the Dominican Republic, and a local insurance company related to a transformer explosion.  

• Banking
• Competition
• Financial services regulatory

• Banking
• Financial services
• Government and public policy
• Insurance

Dominican Bar Association (CARD)

• Participación Ciudadaba, Inc. (PC)
• Profamilia, Inc.

Bachelor of Laws, Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, 1979.