Samuel T. Céspedes Jr.

Bar Admissions

• Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Education

Bachelor's Degree, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

J.D., Columbia Law School

Memberships

• Puerto Rico Bar Association
• Puerto Rico Liaison to the Corporate Laws Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association

His experience spans a wide range of practice areas. Some of his representative transactions include:

• Working in major corporate acquisition transactions in Puerto Rico, such as America Móvil's purchase of Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Liberty Cable's acquisition of OneLink, Hub International's purchase of Carrión, Laffitte & Casellas' stock, the sale of Puerto Rico television assets by Univision to Liberman Media Group, the sales of EDIC College and Columbia Central University stock, and the sale of the San Lucas Guayama Hospital, as well as major corporate reorganizations (Kraft/Mondelez, Pfizer,  Covidien and Medtronic, among others).
• Leading the team of Firm attorneys that assisted Autopistas Metropolitanas de Puerto Rico LLC (“Metropistas”), an Abertis/Goldman Sachs consortium that was awarded a concession to operate and maintain two major toll roads in Puerto Rico. This is the first public-private partnership project developed under the Puerto Rico Public Private Partnerships Act of 2009. He has also worked on all of Metropistas’ debt financing transactions.
• Serving as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in bond issuances of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its agencies and instrumentalities, such as Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority, Puerto Rico Municipal Finance Agency, Puerto Rico Housing Finance Authority, Puerto Rico Infrastructure Finance Agency, Puerto Rico Industrial, Tourist, Educational, Medical and Environmental Control Facilities Financing Authority (AFICA) and Puerto Rico Public Finance Corporation.
• Counseling AmeriNational Community Services, servicer of GDB Debt Recovery Authority, in the sale and restructuring of debt issued by the Puerto Rico government, its instrumentalities and municipalities.  

He is ranked as one of Puerto Rico's Leading Attorneys in the Corporate/Commercial field by the international publication Chambers & Partners in both its Global and Latin America Guides.

Samuel is also ranked as a Highly Regarded attorney in Banking, Capital Markets and M&A by IFLR1000, the international guide to the world's leading financial and corporate law firms and as a leading attorney in both the Corporate and M&A Law and the Corporate Governance & Compliance Practice fields of Best Lawyers in Puerto Rico guide.

Besides chairing McV's Pro Bono Program, Samuel is very active in the non-profit sector.

He is currently  President of the Board of Trustees of Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, member of the Board of Trustees of Centro Para Puerto Rico Fundación Sila M. Calderón and member of the Board of Directors of Grupo Guayacán, Inc., dedicated to invest in Puerto Rico's local entrepreneurial system.

For many years he served as member of the Board of the Corporación La Fondita de Jesús, and recently ended his tenure as President of the Board.