Jorge Rexach > McConnell Valdés LLC > San Juan, Puerto Rico > Lawyer Profile
McConnell Valdés LLC Offices
270 MUÑOZ RIVERA AVENUE
HATO REY
SAN JUAN, 00918
Puerto Rico
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Jorge Rexach
Work Department
Real Estate, Hospitality & Finance Practice Group
Position
Capital Member, Real Estate, Hospitality & Finance Practice Group
Career
He focuses his practice in corporate and real estate transactions and commercial lending.
Mr. Rexach has extensive experience in assets sale and acquisition transactions, project development and finance, structured finance, real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions and stock purchase transactions.
He regularly counsels Puerto Rico and United States financial institutions in the areas of commercial lending, real estate financing and asset-backed financing. He also counsels financial institutions in the development and refinancing of hotels and low-income housing projects in Puerto Rico.
His vast experience includes acting as lender’s counsel in the acquisition of residential mortgage loan portfolios, the refinancing of fast-food restaurant franchises, the acquisition and refinancing of shopping centers, the refinancing of hotel projects and the acquisition and development of multifamily residential projects. Mr. Rexach has also acted as counsel to corporate clients in complex sale and acquisition transactions and as seller’s counsel in the sale of a warehouse real estate properties portfolio in Puerto Rico.
Lawyer Rankings
Puerto Rico > Real estate, hospitality and leisure
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).
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate, commercial and banking
- Dispute resolution and bankruptcy
- Energy, natural resources and environment
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- Real estate, hospitality and leisure
- Tax