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LUIS ANIBAL AVILES
EDUCATIONHarvard Law School, J.D., (June 1992). Admitted to practice law in Puerto Rico, United States District court for the District of Puerto Rico, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.President, La Alianza (1990-91); Editor, Journal on Legislation (1990); Chief Organizer, Symposium on the Puerto Rico Plebiscite of 1991 (Spring 1990).Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences A.M., Physics (March 1986), Ph.D. Candidate, Physics (November 1986)Publication: Multiplex coherent anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy study of infrared-multiphoton-excited OCS J. Chem. Phys. 91 (3), 1 August 1989 Activities: Bell Communications Research Fellow (1984-89); Founder of the Eugenio María de Hostos Graduate Society (1988).University of Puerto Rico at MayagüezB.S., Physics, Magna Cum Laude, (June 1984)Publication: A New System for Astrophysical Nuclear Reaction Studies with Radioactive Ion Beams, R.C. Haight, G.J. Mathews, R.M. White, L.A. Aviles, and S.E. Woodard, Nucl. Instrum. Methods 206, 245 (1983)
Honors: Enrico Fermi Physics Award (June 1984); Dean's List (1982-84); Phi Kappa Phi Honor SocietyCentro Residencial de Oportunidades Educativas de Mayaguez (CROEM)Certificate, Magna Cum Laude (June 1980)Honors: Invitee at the 5th Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar (Winter 1980); First Prize Award, General Motors International Science & Engineering Fair (St. Paul, Minnesota, May, 1980).ACADEMIC EXPERIENCEUniversity of Puerto Rico School of Law, San Juan, PRAssistant Professor (Since 2006). Teach courses in International Business Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions, Advanced Corporate Law and Energy Law.
Publication: Human Dignity, Privacy and Personality Rights in the Constitutional Jurisprudence of Germany, the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 67 U. of Puerto Rico Law Rev., 343 (1998)Harvard University, Cambridge, MASenior Teaching Fellow in Science A-18b Space, Time and Motion; Science A-22 Change, Necessity and Order (1986-92); Physics I Principles of Physics (Summers 1987-89). Non-Resident Tutor in Physics & Law, Lowell House, Harvard College; Derek Bok Center Award for Teaching Excellency (Spring 1987).LEGAL EXPERIENCE
PRACTICE AREAS: Corporate Law; Business Law; Banking; Energy Law; Real Estate; Mortgages; Investment Company Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Bankruptcy and Workouts; International Business Transactions; Shopping Center Law; Mediation; Arbitration; Labor Law; Commercial Litigation.
ADMITTED: 1993, Puerto Rico; 1994, U.S. District Court, District of Puerto Rico; U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit Avilés Pagán Law Offices, San Juan, PR (since February, 1998)Member. Reported cases: Dávila Pérez v. Lockheed Martin, 202 F. 3d 464 (1st Cir. 2000); International v. Lupi’s Enterprises, 2001 PR App Lexis 558 (2001); Diaz Negron v. Grupo Medico, 2002 PR App. Lexis 286 (2002); Mergers & Acquisitions: Wal-Mart Puerto Rico, Inc. acquisition of Supermercados Amigo, Inc. (2002), Sellers counsel, Popular, Inc. acquisition of Mediawire Communications (2001), Buyers counsel, Iron Mountain, Inc. acquisition of Central File, Inc. (1999), Buyers counsel, PAC acquisition of Puerto Rican Pizza, Inc. (Little Ceasars) (2000), Sellers counsel; Real Estate: Developer’s counsel Las Palmas de Cerro Gordo (2001), Meister Developers, (2006); Inn on the Blue Horizon Resort (2004); Investment Companies: Fund counsel, Puerto Rico Investors Tax-Free Family of Funds (since 2000).Axtmayer Adsuar Muñiz & Goyco, San Juan, PR (03/1994 to 01/98)Partner at the Corporate and Banking Law Department. Specialties: public finance, securities law, real estate, general corporate, telecommunications and intellectual property law. Experience: Municipal Finance: Underwriter’s counsel in and $8,000,000 Ashford Presbyterian Hospital Parking Garage AFICA Bond Issue and $4,500,000 AFICA Politécnica Project Bond Issue; Corporate Finance: Underwriter’s counsel in BanPonce Corporation and Banco Central Hispano 1994 Preferred Stock Issues, Issuer’s counsel in Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico S&P 500 Index Notes Issue; Investment Companies: Fund counsel to the Puerto Rico Investors Tax-Free Fund I, II, III, IV and V and Puerto Rico Tax-Free Target Maturity Funds I and II. common stock issues; Mergers & Acquisitions: corporate, labor and tax due diligence in Marshall’s acquisition of the New York Department Store; Bankruptcy: party-in-interest counsel in Chapter 11 reorganization of venture capital company; Miscellaneous: handled Interactive Video and Data Services (IVDS) license bid process before the FCC for several clients; handled several insurance matters, mergers and acquisitions and letter of credit matters.Goldman Antonetti Córdova & Axtmayer, San Juan, PR (10/92 – 03/94)Associate at the Corporate and Banking Law Department. Experience: Municipal finance: letter of credit bank counsel in $29MM AFICA bond issue (drafted the letter of credit and the collateral documents), underwriter's counsel in issuance of $410MM Puerto Housing Bank Refunding Bonds; Securities law: research and drafted the Blue Sky and legal investment memoranda in the Politécnica AFICA bond issue, drafted no-action letter petition regarding the section 6(a)(1) exemption of the Investment Company Act of 1940, research in several securities issues, extensive work in the creation of a new mutual fund; Banking Law: negotiation and loan and collateral documentation of $12MM credit facility, negotiation and documentation of $33MM loan participation, real estate due diligence and collateral documentation of the $175,000,000 Pueblo International, Inc. credit facility; Mergers & Acquisitions: documentation of high technology company and mid-size shopping center acquisitions; Venture Capital Financing: documentation of several investments by a local venture capital fund, extensive negotiation with Economic Development Bank for Puerto Rico on behalf of another local venture capital fund, creation of a venture capital fund under the Tourism Incentives Act of 1993; Administrative Practice: administrative and ruling practice before the Commissioner of Insurance, EDB, DTOP and Autoridad de Teléfonos; Intellectual Property: filings of federally-registered trademarks and copyrights, research on several patent law issues; Miscellaneous: handled several legal aspects of the Comisión Pro Sede Olimpiadas 2004, including the drafting of the City Contract with the IOC, real estate counseling to one of the bidders of Tren Urbano.Sullivan & Worcester, Boston, MA (Summer 1991)Drafted legal memoranda on Social Security tax issues, international real estate joint ventures, environmental law, tort litigation and intellectual property. Extensive work in the high technology venture capital department. Drafted response to Department of Labor proposed regulations implementing the Immigration Act of 1990.Lahive & Cockfield, Boston, MA (Summer 1990)Drafted patents in the field of optical technology and Answers to US Patent office actions. Researched trademark questions. Drafted state-of-the art and patent history memoranda.BOARD EXPERIENCE
Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors (January 2007). Oversee the Banks efforts to deal with the Central Government’s credit crisis due to previous issuance of extra-constitutional debt in the capital markets.Puerto Rico Electric Power AuthorityChairman of the Governing Board (March 2006). Drove the Authority’s transformation from a 73% oil fuel based public utility into a natural gas and clean coal based public utility in order to reduce Puerto Rico’s dependence in petroleum distillates to 50% by 2010 and to 33% by 2017.Meister Developers, Inc.Vice Chairman, Board of Directors (since March 2006). In charge of two major mixed-used real estate developments in San Juan, Puerto Rico amounting to over $200 million of total investment.Xapiens International GroupChairman of the Board of Directors (since April 2002). Founder of Puerto Rico’s only 24/7/365 provider of Managed Security Services of computer networks.Bell Communications Research, Inc., Red Bank, NJMember of the Technical Staff; Research on the transmission properties of metals (Summer 1986)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CAStaff Scientist; Research in experimental nuclear physics and x-ray technology (Summers 1982-84).
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