Magda M. Boyles 

Ms. Boyles' primary practice area is corporate law, focusing primarily on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate transactional matters.

Before joining McConnell Valdés, Ms. Boyles was an Associate at Vedder Price and prior to Vedder Price, she was an Associate at Schwartz, Cooper, Greenberger & Krauss, Chartered (recently acquired by Dykema). Ms. Boyles has concentrated her practice representing buyers and sellers, primarily middle-market companies, in the purchase and sale of their business. She has also represented banks, commercial finance companies and other institutional lenders with respect to secured transactions, commercial lending and asset-based financing.

Ms. Boyles is able to provide her clients with "value-added legal advice" as a result of her technical business training and hands-on business experience. Having an M.B.A. from a top-ranked program and having worked in various management capacities within the corporate world such as Foote, Cone & Belding and Coors Brewing Company, she understands the business principles and motivations that drive business today. Given this unique combination of significant business experience and legal training, her approach to the practice of law is pragmatic and straightforward.

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

During her tenure at McConnell Valdés, Ms. Boyles has participated in the legal team handling the following key transactions:

• Served as counsel for a leading advertising and marketing services global network in the reorganization and purchase of a local advertising agency and its affiliates.
• Served as local counsel for a corporate restructuring of a leading producer of chocolate and sugar confectionery.
• Acted as counsel to a local hotel developer in connection with financing arrangements including subordinated debt facilities.
• Served as counsel to a local advertising agency regarding operative agreements, financing matters, vendor contractual matters and corporate governance.
• Acted as underwriters counsel in the $152 million P.R. Public Building Authority's Government Facilities Revenue Refunding Bonds.
• Acted as bond counsel in the $1.4 billion Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico 2009 Series C and D public offering.
• Served as local counsel in a worldwide financing facility for a global retailer of premium brands.
• Served as counsel in the sale of a pharmaceutical facility.
• Served as government affairs/lobbying representative for a leading business software and hardware technology company.