Education
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1949
- J.D., The University of Michigan Law School, 1952
Bar Admissions
- Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- New York
- U.S. District Court District of Puerto Rico
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
Memberships
- Puerto Rico Bar Association
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Robert S. Griggs
Robert S. Griggs has been with the firm since 1954 and was a member from 1958 until he retired in 1991. He has continued since then as Special Counsel. For twelve years he was the Managing Partner of the Firm.
His practice is principally in the areas of corporate, tax and tax exemption matters affecting subsidiaries of United States and foreign country corporations operating in Puerto Rico.
He has spoken at numerous legal and tax conferences on the taxation under United States and Puerto Rico law of corporations treated as "possessions corporations" or "controlled foreign corporations" in the United States Internal Revenue Code.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Flagstaff Institute, a §501(c)(3) non-profit research institution located in Flagstaff, Arizona, dedicated to improving world trade and business, and of the Board of Advisers of The Journal of International Taxation.
He has done extensive writing in The Journal of The Flagstaff Institute, the Journal of International Taxation and other legal and business publications. Some of his most recent articles in The Journal of International Taxation are "Puerto Rico Enacts New Tax Incentives Law to Counteract Section 936 Phase Down, in the February 1998 issue, "Last Tax Act of the Millennium Extends P&D Credit to Puerto Rico", in the June 2000 issue, and "Puerto Rico Seeks New Tax Incentives to Compensate for Loss of Section 936", in the November 2001 issue.
