Commercial Leasing & Retail
Commercial Leasing & Retail

The current economic landscape in Puerto Rico has presented multiple challenges (and opportunities) for our commercial leasing clients.  Our Commercial Leasing & Retail Practice provides insightful and informed advice to both landlords and tenants on commercial and retail leasing matters across numerous industries including commercial malls, gasoline distribution, telecommunications, energy generation, and educational facilities.

Our team’s ability to address issues of multiple lessees in both, acquisition and disposition scenarios is enhanced by our real estate team’s broad experience in commercial property acquisition and disposition.  Moreover, we provide critical advice on the availability of leases as security for loan transactions. We have extensive experience negotiating operating leases, ground leases, subleases, and license agreements.

We Handle

  • Operating leases
  • Ground leases
  • Subleases
  • License agreements
  • Leases as security for loans

Notable Cases & Transactions

$700 Million renewable energy investment

Handled the first and single Puerto Rico resource recovery project for the development, design, financing, construction and operation of a 2,100 ton/day, 80MW renewable energy power plant using processed refuse[…]
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$14 Million credit agreement

Acted as counsel to bank in the closing of a $14 million credit agreement for the financing of seven solar photovoltaic energy projects involving the P.R. Aqueduct and Sewer Authority,[…]
World Class Public Private Partnership Transaction

World class public private partnership transaction

In a groundbreaking transaction and first-ever in Puerto Rico, Ferraiuoli acted as local counsel to the entities listed below in a world-class P3 transaction involving Puerto Rico’s Luis Muñoz Marín[…]
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC)

Acted as local counsel to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the 2010 consolidation of three failed Puerto Rico banks, including the drafting of the perfection of a security interest[…]