Guillermo R. Picó
Telephone: (787) 999-9001
Mobile: (787) 567-7426
Guillermo R. Picó, Esq. is the founder and the managing member of the Firm. His practice in the Firm is focused on corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, real estate and healthcare law.
Mr. Picó has represented clients in the design and organization of corporate and other legal entities and structures created for the development, establishment, acquisition and operation of numerous business ventures in Puerto Rico. He has also been involved as bond, underwriter’s and issuer’s counsel in exempt and registered securities offerings for the financing of resort hotels, low and moderate income housing, commercial office and retail space, educational institutions and other public and private enterprises, as well as in the organization and public offering of stock of Puerto Rico registered investment companies.
In the field of real estate law and structured finance he has represented both private commercial and residential developers, and public and private financial institutions. As a consequence of shifts in the Puerto Rico real estate market, Mr. Picó’s efforts in this area have been focused on the design and establishment of special purpose entities and financial structures, including the use of various types of tax credits or other incentives, for the development of public infrastructure and master-planned communities, housing for persons of low and moderate income in Puerto Rico and, most recently, for the acquisition of distressed assets of all types from financial institutions and other institutional investors.
Mr. Picó has been engaged in the practice of healthcare law, representing health insurance companies, healthcare managers and medical practitioners, in the drafting and negotiation of all types of contracts and in the corporate practice of medicine in Puerto Rico.
In light of continuing developments in the field of corporate governance, since 2003 Mr. Picó has advised the audit committees of a bank holding company and of seventeen registered Puerto Rico investment companies, and from 2007 to 2013 Mr. Picó served as counsel to the Board of Trustees of Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust. Mr. Picó also has served as corporate officer of Puerto Rico registered investment companies and currently serves as director and officer of several privately held Puerto Rico and Delaware corporations.
Prior to organizing the Firm in 2001, Mr. Picó was a partner in the Corporate Department of Pietrantoni Méndez & Alvarez LLP, which he joined as a law clerk in 1993, became an associate in 1994 and a partner in 1999. While at PMA, Mr. Picó’s main areas of practice were corporate, commercial and securities laws, corporate and public finance, real estate and healthcare law.
Mr. Picó was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 10, 1969. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Harvard University in 1991and a law degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1994.
Mr. Picó is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and is a licensed notary public in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. He is a member of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law and the American Bar Association Forum on the Construction Industry. He is also an associate member of the Urban Land Institute. Mr. Picó is fluent in English and Spanish and has a working knowledge of Portuguese and French.
Mr. Picó received the 2018 Global Law Experts Annual Award in the category of Boutique Structured Finance Law Firm of the year in Puerto Rico and in the Editor’s Choice category, the Boutique Corporate Law Firm of the Year in Puerto Rico. He was also named the Best Lawyers® 2018 Corporate and M&A “Lawyer of the Year” in San Juan.