Carolina O. Soto Hernández

Carolina is a partner at the firm and leads the International Dispute Resolution Practice in the firm's Dominican Republic office. She graduated cum laude in law from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. She holds a master’s degree in law (LLM) from the University of Illinois (US) and a postgraduate degree in Spanish law from the Universidad de Alcala (Spain). Carolina is also a member of the Bar Association of the Dominican Republic and the Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Court of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution of the Chamber of Commerce and Production of Santo Domingo, of the Legal Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce, where she leads the Subcommittee on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, and of the Board of Directors of the French-Dominican Chamber of Commerce.

Since 2018, Carolina has been a judicial interpreter and official translator of the Dominican Republic for English.

She has been recognized in several directories, including Mercado Magazine's ranking of young Dominican talent “40 under 40” and Top Latino Lawyer; and constantly in Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America and The Legal 500.

Carolina is a professor for the Commercial Arbitration and Alternative Conflict Resolution courses at the Universidad Pontificia Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) (Santo Domingo and Santiago Campuses).