McConnell Valdés LLC

The powerhouse team at McConnell Valdés LLC remains a market leader, harnessing the bench strength of its experienced team to advise major insurers, financial institutions and multinationals involved in complex, high-value claims and class action cases. The firm’s active client roster includes household names such as Johnson & Johnson, Best Buy, AIG and Merrill Lynch, and sectors including oil and gas, healthcare, real estate, retail, financial services, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. The practice is headed by litigation chair Juan Marqués-Díaz, who draws on over 25 years of experience of representing clients in arbitration, tax disputes and cases involving administrative and constitutional law, and group vice-chair Henry Freese, a specialist in maritime and admiralty cases, construction disputes and insurance defence work. Other key figures include managing director Arturo García-Solá, an expert in contractual disputes, who, along with Eduardo Zayas-Marxuach, handles franchise and distribution law cases; Roberto Quiñones‐Rivera, whose extensive skill set covers securities, antitrust, RICO and intellectual property litigation; and Alejandro Cepeda-Díaz, who represents clients in securities arbitration and environmental litigation.