ANGÉLICA NOBOA PAGÁN
Practice areas:
Foreign Trade, Competition Law, and Telecommunications.
Experience:
Partner at Russin, Vecchi & Heredia Bonetti heading their Departments of Foreign Trade, Competition, and Telecommunications with eleven years at the firm.
Doctor of Law from the Universidad Iberoamericana (1987), magna cum laude, and Master of Corporate Law from the Universidad Anáhuac México Norte (2021).
Her practice includes cases of antitrust, telecommunications, customs and logistics law, airport law, international taxation, data privacy, administrative litigation, and arbitration.
Among her past roles and responsibilities, the following stand out:
- Knowledge Manager at Baker McKenzie Mexico (2017-2021).
- Executive Director of the Mexico-Dominican Republic Binational Chamber of Commerce and Services (2020-2021).
- Founding Partner of Noboa Pagán – Abogados (2004-2021).
- Legal Consultant to the General Directorate of Customs (2007-2009).
- Assistant to the President of the Board of Directors of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL) (2002-2004).
- Market Regulations Manager at Compañía Dominicana de Teléfonos, C. por A. (CODETEL) (1995-2001).
It is worth noting that she was an Honorary Member of the Drafting Commission of the Market Organization Code (1997-1999) and participated in the discussion of the Institutional Framework Reform Project for Telecommunications, sponsored by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (1995-1997).
She also served as a pro bono collaborator for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in the preparation of the “General Competition Defense Bill” in 2006 and coordinated the “Draft General Customs Law” while she was a public servant at the DGA.
She has advised the Dominican State through the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United States International Agency for Development (USAID) on telecommunications and competition policies, respectively.
She has also been recommended by Legal 500 Latin America, in the areas of Corporate and M&A.
Education:
Doctor in Laws, from the Iberoamericana University (UNIBE) in 1987 and Master in Corporate Law from Universidad Anáhuac México Norte in 2021. “Third Iberoamerican Meeting on Customs Law: The new paradigms of Customs Law” – Barcelona, Spain 2007; “Customs Law Seminar” organized by the Latin-American Association of Custom Agents, Panama (2007); “Public Utility Regulation and Strategy”, University of Florida, sponsored by the World Bank (1999); “Telecommunications Reform in Latin America: Results and Regulatory Implications” (2003) organized by “Leaning Initiatives on Reforms in Network Economies (LIRNE)”, sponsored by the Spanish Agency of Spanish Cooperation and Regulatel, in Antigua, Guatemala (2003); “Efficient Telecom Management”, organized by Telia Academy, AB, Kalmar and Stockholm, Sweden (2000); “Telecommunications in Society”, organized by Telia Academy, AB, Kalmar and Stockholm, Sweden (1999); “Competition Law & Policy” organized by the Getulio Vargas Foundation, the Brazilian Institute of Study of the Relations of Competition and Consumption (IBRAC), the Administrative Council of Economic Defense (CADE) and the World Bank, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1997).
Seminars: “XXIII Conference of the Latin American and Iberian Association of Law and Economics (ALACDE)” (2018), Meeting of the Competition Law Committee of the International Bar Association Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017), the “Hemispherical Forum On Politics and Regulation of Telecommunications” sponsored by the International Union of Telecommunications (UIT), in Montevideo, Uruguay (1995); “Permanent Consultative Committee I” organized by the Commission of Telecommunications of the Organization of American States (CITEL), in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Lima, Peru (1995 and 1996, respectively); “Summit of Regulators, Users and Telecommunications Services Users” organized by the Association of Consumers and Users of Argentina and the Latin-American Association of Businesses and Telecommunications Investigation Centers (AHCIET), in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1999); “Summit of Regulators and Telecommunications Services Users” promoted by AHCIET and REGULATEL, Bavaro, Dominican Republic (2002); “Journey on Digital Television” by the Department of Science and Technology of Spain, the Agency of Spanish Cooperation and the Department of Communications of Colombia, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (2002); “Topics in the execution of laws, Politics and regulations of telecommunications”, by the International Union of Telecommunications (UIT) and National Agency of Telecommunications of the Republic of Brazil (ANATEL), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2004); “IX Course on Regulation and Competition”, University of Valladolid, Spain (2023).
Memberships:
- Member of the Dominican Bar Association.
- Institutionalism and Justice Foundation (FINJUS).
- American Bar Association, specifically in the sections of Antitrust, Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law.
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Cámara Binacional de Negocios y Servicios México – República Dominicana (CABIMEX-RD).
- Coordinator of the Legal Committee of the Association of Foreign Investment Companies (ASIEX).
- Commercial arbitrator at the Alternative Dispute Resolution Center of the Santo Domingo Chamber of Commerce and Production (CCPSD).
- Member of the World Airports Lawyers Association (WALA).
- Member of Instituto Dominicano de Derecho Constitucional (IDDEC).
Author:
- Author of “Libre y leal competencia en la República Dominicana (1994-2020)”, the first systematic work on competition law in the Dominican Republic, along with notable legal essays published in Gaceta Judicial, Acento, Thomson Reuters, Tirant Lo Blanche, Legis, Concurrences, and the University of Cantabria.
- Co-author of of the collective work published by Thomson Reuters and Universidad Anahuac Mexico “Panorama Actual del Derecho Fiscal Internacional” 2022.
Languages:
Spanish and english.
