Mary Fernández

Founding Partner at Headrick since 1985. Her career has focused on corporate and business law, intellectual property, foreign investments, banking law, and financing. Ms. Fernández is currently Chair of the Latin American Council of the International Section of the New York Bar Association (NYSBA). 

• Advised development banks: DEG, FMO and BIO in a US$60 MM financing to Montecristi Solar FV., S.A.S., to finance the construction of a 57 MW solar power plant.
• Advised the Blackstone group in the acquisition of Spanish-based gaming and leisure giant Cirsa Gaming Corporation, S.A.
• Head of the Intellectual Property Department of the firm, representing important pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, among others) and industrial concerns in such matters.

• M&A
• Project finance
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Intellectual Property

• Banking
• Consumer goods and services
• Food and beverage
• Pharma and life sciences
• Tech and telecoms

Dominican Bar Association (CARD)

• American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (AMCHAMDR)
• Dominican Association for Intellectual Property, Inc. (ADOPI)
• Latin American Council (LATAM) of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA)
• Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI)

• Bachelor of Law, Universidad Pedro Henríquez Ureña, 1978.
• Postgraduate course in Political Science and International Relations, Georgia State University, 1979-1980.
• LLM in Intellectual Property, John Marshall Law School of Chicago, 2016.