María Fernanda Pou Fernández

EXPERIENCE:

Ms. María Fernanda Pou Fernández began her professional experience in May, 2014 as an Internal Paralegal where she was responsible for conducting investigations for all the Departments (Intellectual Property, Family, Immigration, Litigation, Corporate, Commercial, Business and Aviation) and the monthly “Situation and Perspective”. In 2015 she was promoted to External Paralegal supporting the Departments of Intellectual Property and Family, in 2016 she was promoted to Senior External Paralegal for the Department Corporate, Commercial, Business and Aviation, where she worked with due diligence investigations, follow up of commercial and tax process, with particular emphasis in aviation matters, supporting regulatory writs and process for licenses and permits for airlines and related matters with a widespread practice. Furthermore as from September 2017 she performed functions of Intern lawyer for Aviation Area, working closely with clients and aviation authorities, in technical process of aircraft inclusion, handling approvals for code share agreements, operating permits, Special and Charter flight approvals, Schedule matters, insurance topics among others with the Civil Aviation Board; fleet interchange, licenses for airport services, Tcas actualization for clients fleet with the Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation (IDAC), security manuals support to clients with the authority CESAC (CuerpoEspecializado en Seguridad Aeroportuaria y de la AviaciónCivil – Special Force for Airport and Aviation Security) after acquiring this experience at Russin Vecchi & Heredia Bonetti, she moved this last February, 2018 as an Associate Lawyer to Raful Sicard & Polanco where she works in the Aviation Practice Group recently created with clients as UPSCO, UNITED, DELTA, COPA, CONDOR, AEROMEXICO, AEROREPUBLICA, LONGPORT AVIATION SECURITY, UNIVERSAL WEATHER AVIATION, J.J. ROCA, among others.

EDUCATION:

• Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic, Law Degree, 2017;
• Diplomado en Gestión Aeronáutica (Certificate of Aviation Management) 2017 at UniversidadPedro Henríquez Ureña(U.N.P.H.U.), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2017.(68 hours theoretical and practice).
• Diplomado en Derecho Aeronáutico(Certificate of Aeronautical Law) 2018 at Universidad Acción Pro Educación y Cultura (A.P.E.C), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2018 (72 theoretical and practice).

AUTHOR:

“Marco Regulador de los Drones Civiles en la República Dominicana”(Regulatory Framework for Civil Drones in the Dominican Republic), UNIBE, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2017.

LANGUAGES:

• Spanish-Native
• English – Advanced
• Portuguese- Intermediate