Jesús Francos

Practice Areas

Administrative Law, Public Procurement and Telecommunications Law, together with tax, constitutional, competition, civil law, and litigation in general.

Career

Jesús Francos Rodríguez joined MGA in 2006 as a senior associate lawyer and since 2014 has been a partner of the firm.

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.

Professional Memberships

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).