PUERTO RICO Law and Practice Contributed by: Antonio Santos, Donald Hull and Paola Canino, Pietrantoni Mendez & Alvarez LLC
Pietrantoni Mendez & Alvarez LLC was founded in 1992 to provide top-quality, timely, cost-effective and personalised legal services. The firm maintains a diversified legal practice encompassing real estate, banking, corporate and commercial law. Its attorneys regularly advise local and foreign clients on complex transactions in the context of Puerto Rico’s unique legal environment, and have extensive experience in preparing legal documentation for commercial real
estate transactions that comply with applicable Puer - to Rico and US laws and regulations. The firm repre - sents clients in connection with the acquisition and disposition of real property and businesses in Puerto Rico and, in certain cases, in Latin America and the Caribbean. The firm’s real estate clients come from a wide array of economic sectors, and the firm has participated in many of the largest and most complex real estate transactions in Puerto Rico.
Authors
Antonio Santos is a founding member of Pietrantoni Mendez & Alvarez and a partner in the firm’s corporate and real estate practice groups, where his
Donald Hull is a counsel in Pietrantoni Mendez & Alvarez’s corporate group, where his practice covers a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, with particular emphasis on real estate development and bank
practice covers a broad range of commercial and corporate law matters. He advises clients on all aspects of real estate finance, including investment and development transactions, syndicated deals and all other real estate aspects of debt origination, refinancing and restructuring. Antonio has extensive experience across all real estate sectors, including hospitality, healthcare, industrial, retail and commercial. He has also advised clients on the development of residential and commercial real estate projects in Puerto Rico.
financing, and retail, hotel and office development. His clients are developers, purchasers, sellers, landlords and tenants, including several leading national retailers that have established operations in Puerto Rico. He has represented lenders and borrow - ers in loan transactions involving leveraged buyouts, project finance, real estate acquisitions, construction finance, and workouts and restructurings. Donald also works extensively with many leading interna - tional law firms as special local counsel on transac - tions originating outside Puerto Rico.
Paola Canino is an associate in Pietrantoni Mendez & Alvarez’s corporate group.
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