McConnell Valdés LLC

The powerhouse real estate department at McConnell Valdés LLC remains a market leader, leveraging the experience of its team to assist developers, domestic and multinational financial institutions such as Citibank, and corporates across such sectors as tourism, hospitality, energy and manufacturing with day-to-day matters and in high-value transactions. The team is headed by chairman Jorge Ruiz-Montilla, who brings strength to planning and structuring resort communities and timeshares, and hotel and condominium projects, and vice-chair and resort development expert Patricia George‐Iguina, who is the managing director of McV Consulting, an affiliate of the firm engaged in real estate and hospitality advisory services. Other key figures include Harry Cook, who advises on the structuring of real estate joint ventures, the planning of timeshares and lot development programmes, and Salvador Casellas and Jorge Rexach, both specialists in structured financing. Counsel Nathalia Rivera-Smith joined in August 2022 from the Central Office for Recovery, Reconstruction and Resiliency (COR3).