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Corporate / Taxation / Litigation


Corporate +
Transactional

 

Attorneys in this Practice Group have participated in multiple securities offerings for billions of dollars; mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; consumer, commercial, and real estate loans; complex commercial foreclosures; municipal financings; municipal improvement and public works projects; municipal procurements; and real estate, land use, and zoning transactions. The Corporate and Transactional Practice Group has also advised clients in every aspect of contract negotiation and capital projects organization and management. Our taxation practice includes advising individuals, corporate clients, and governmental and quasi-governmental entities in U.S. Federal and Puerto Rico tax, estate, trust, and employee benefits laws and regulations.

Our Corporate and Transactional Practice Group has ample experience in the following areas of law:

  • Banking and Institutional Investment

  • Business Reorganization and Creditors’ Rights

  • Business Formation and Start-ups

  • Consumer Lending

  • Corporate Finance and Capital Markets

  • Emerging Companies

  • Government Relations

  • Investment and Strategic Ventures

  • Lobbying and Permit Procurement

  • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures

  • Private Equity/Finance

  • Public Finance

  • Real Estate and Real Estate Financing

  • Securities Transactions

  • Taxation

Procurement Law Practice Sub-Group

We speak business. Our corporate law department is among the best in Puerto Rico, and includes former partners of major law firms, former in-house counsel, professors of law and former heads of cabinet-level departments of the executive branch of the Government of Puerto Rico.

Our Corporate and Transactional Practice Group combines a full-service transactional practice with a pragmatic and hands-on approach to business counseling. Our clients, both domestic and international, see us as a business partner because we add value to their organizations; they turn to us for focused and detailed attention on their most important matters, particularly with respect to complex transactions. We not only provide comprehensive legal advice, we also act as strategic advisors, enabling our clients to accomplish their business objectives in a cost-efficient manner and without unnecessary hassle.

We have represented many entities and individuals in a wide array of commercial and financial transactions in Puerto Rico and cross-border. We have experience in a plethora of industries, including finance, technology, government, real estate, retail, education, hospitality, pharmaceutical, recycling, and healthcare. The main areas of our corporate practice are capital markets, securities, corporate governance and compliance, mergers & acquisitions, banking, investment companies, private equity, real estate, retail, DACO, trust & estates, commercial lending, insurance and government affairs.


Tax, Estate Planning + Employee Benefits

 

We have been actively involved in the conceptualization and drafting of several key pieces of tax legislation, including the Puerto Rico Internal Revenue Code of 2011, its predecessor – the Puerto Rico Internal Revenue Code of 1994 – and Act 154 of October 25, 2010, and related regulations and administrative pronouncements. Our tax attorneys represent local and stateside entities, corporations, financial institutions and individuals in tax planning for numerous forms of business organizations, transactions, acquisitions, reorganizations; they provide counsel on the sale and purchase of tax credits granted under local laws, and structuring business transactions and reorganizations. The Firm’s tax practice also assists clients in obtaining rulings and negotiating closing agreements with the Puerto Rico Treasury Department on behalf of our clients. The Firm’s tax attorneys also represent clients before the Puerto Rico Treasury Department, the Puerto Rico municipal governments and the Internal Revenue Service.

As a boutique law firm, we pride ourselves in having one of the most sophisticated tax law teams in Puerto Rico, with ample experience advising and representing both domestic and international companies, as well as their principals, in tax planning and tax dispute matters under both Puerto Rico and US federal law. Our team, which includes former partners of major law firm departments and Big 4 accounting firms – among them a former Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico – has provided strategic advice in a wide range of transactions, from multi-million dollar construction financings, debt restructurings and complex real estate transactions, to restructurings of small businesses, individual tax planning, and the creation and ongoing operations of tax-exempt entities.

Our areas of practice include corporate tax, partnerships, limited liabilities companies, Sub-Chapter S, international tax disputes, mergers & acquisitions, hospitality tax credits, energy and renewable sources, financial instruments, investment companies, wealth management and estate tax planning, relocation of high net worth individuals to Puerto Rico, exportation of services, restructurings, tax accounting, payroll tax, property transactions, employee benefits, executive compensation, transfer pricing, and tax aspects of charitable giving.  Moreover, our Tax Team has comprehensive experience, having collaborated with the Government of Puerto Rico and appeared before Congress in developing new tax laws. Our Tax members are frequent participants in many seminars across the island and stateside and have served as expert witness in international proceedings.


Litigation

 

We represent banks and financial institutions, broker-dealers, investment companies, trust companies, publicly held companies, credit unions, pharmaceutical companies, and individuals in a wide array of commercial litigation matters before Puerto Rico and US Federal courts, administrative agencies, self-regulatory organizations, and in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) proceedings.

Our litigation attorneys have significant experience in business disputes ranging from corporate controversies, shareholder disputes and employment matters to complex contract, trust & estates, construction, consumer finance, bankruptcy and real estate. Our team also frequently advises companies and their boards of directors in corporate governance issues and shareholder relation matters.

With a practical approach and unyielding devotion to client advocacy, the litigation group is frequently sought to manage and advise on our clients’ most complex and seemingly insurmountable issues.

The Litigation Practice Group Handles a Variety of General Civil and Commercial Litigation Before U.S. District Courts and the Courts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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