Biography

Is a Non-Equity Partner, CN&R with ample experience advising clients on general corporate, regulatory and licensing matters, banking law, mergers and acquisitions, public private partnerships, public and corporate finance, and securities. Mr. Martínez serves as local (Puerto Rico) corporate and regulatory counsel to several international retail chains. He represented an international infrastructure consortium in its bid for the award of a long-term lease of Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Puerto Rico through the innovative Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Act. Throughout his career, Mr. Martínez has advised local (Puerto Rico), United States and international clients in the structuring and negotiation of various stock and/or asset purchase and sale transactions in the tourism, retail, healthcare, entertainment, education, insurance, manufacturing and services sectors. Mr. Martínez has also advised one of Puerto Rico’s largest banking institutions in transactional and regulatory compliance matters, and has counseled local (Puerto Rico), United States and international financial institutions in complex, and at times, cross-border, financing transactions in the finance, healthcare, retail, and renewable energy sectors. Mr. Martínez is a former associate of the New York office of Sidley Austin LLP (formerly known as Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP). He is a member of the New York Bar as well as the Puerto Rico Bar. He has a B.S. from Boston College (1998) and a J. D. from University of Pennsylvania’s Law School (2001).