Isabel Torres‐Sastre > McConnell Valdés LLC > San Juan, Puerto Rico > Lawyer Profile

The powerhouse team McConnell Valdés LLC remains a market leader in litigation, employing the experience of its team in complex, high-value class action law suits. With specialised offerings in such areas as bankruptcy and tax, the group advises a client roster of major insurers, financial institutions and multinationals, including household names Johnson & Johnson, Best Buy, Merrill Lynch and AIG, across sectors ranging from real estate, retail, financial services and medical devices to healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Litigation practice chair Juan Marqués-Díaz has over 25 years of experience and specialises in tax disputes, administrative and constitutional law, and arbitration, and vice-chair Henry Freese is an expert in maritime and admiralty law. Other key figures include Arturo García-Solá, who handles franchise and distribution law matters and contractual disputes, and Isabel Torres‐Sastre, who handles securities and IP matters.

The powerhouse team at McConnell Valdés LLC remains a market leader, leveraging the experience of its team to manage and safeguard the intellectual property portfolios of financial institutions and global household-name brands such as Cartier, Clorox, Universal Music, T-Mobile and Moët & Chandon, across such sectors as consumer products, entertainment, apparel, jewellery, food and beverages, telecoms and motor vehicles. The practice’s comprehensive service addresses a diverse range of matters related to trade marks, trade dress, copyrights, moral rights, cybersquatting, false advertising, right of publicity and patents. The team is led by Dora Peñagarícano, an expert in fashion law, anti-counterfeiting, and trade mark and copyright infringement litigation, and Roberto Quiñones-Rivera, who brings expertise to the registration of IP in the financial services and hospitality industries. Other key figures include Isabel Torres‐Sastre, a specialist in media and entertainment, securities and healthcare law.