DLA Piper LLP (US)

Corporate; Projects, Energy and Infrastructure

Managing Partner

Miriam Figueroa is the Managing Partner of the Puerto Rico office. She has extensive experience advising clients on infrastructure projects, public finance, public-private partnerships and administrative law. She has also advised government and private clients on energy related matters.

Miriam has actively participated in negotiating infrastructure, power purchase agreements and public-private partnership contracts. She has also participated in multiple securities offerings representing issuers and underwriters and has advised private banks in commercial and real-estate based lending transactions. Miriam has advised government entities in a variety of novel transactions and financing structures, including public-private partnerships in water utilities, renewable energy projects, maritime ports and airports.

Miriam had a key role in advising the Government of Puerto Rico in the process of creating the regulatory structure to implement in Puerto Rico the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, particularly new renewable energy related policy.

Miriam was also part of the multidisciplinary team participating in the financial and organizational restructuring of the Puerto Rico public electric utility. In that capacity, she had an active role in drafting and negotiating with lawmakers and other stakeholders key legislation to implement such restructuring prior to the approval by Congress of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA).

Miriam also has advised clients in connection with processes before the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau and other administrative bodies and procurement processes.

English; Spanish

LL.M., Harvard Law School J.D., Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico summa cum laude B.A., International Studies and Political Science, Macalester College magna cum laude