JOSÉ R. TORO-MORALES jrtoro@tcmrslaw.com

Practice Areas: Real Estate, Corporate, Business and Estates Law

Mr. Toro-Morales holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with a major in Accounting (Cum Laude), from Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)(1983), and a Juris Doctor (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law (1988). Mr. Toro-Morales is a former partner of the law firm of McConnell Valdés, where he concentrated in real estate and commercial financing transactions. Prior to entering into the private law practice, he clerked for the Honorable Federico Hernández Denton, now Chief Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court.

Mr. Toro-Morales is also a certified public accountant (CPA) with prior work experience in a major international public accounting firm. He is actively involved in numerous loan transactions representing banks and other financial institutions, particularly real estate financing (residential, commercial and industrial) and in a variety of real estate transactions dealing principally with condominium planning, resort development and operations, and manufacturing plant acquisitions and expansions. In addition, Mr. Toro-Morales handles general corporate matters, contract negotiations, particularly commercial leases, and issues of estates law. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the United States Courts of Appeals for the First Circuit.