Luis Marini

Practice Areas

Luis helps clients maximize value by using his bankruptcy, transactional, and litigation skills both in and out of court. He concentrates his practice in all aspects of insolvency and business restructuring matters across a broad range of industries and in commercial real estate matters. He regularly represents financial institutions, private equity funds, purchasers of distressed debt or assets, and other parties on bankruptcy, restructurings, investments and acquisitions, and commercial lending transactions. Since 2018, Luis has led the firm’s representation of the Government of Puerto Rico with respect to all aspects of the financial restructuring of Puerto Rico’s debt obligations – marking the largest municipal restructuring in recent history – and, for over two decades, Luis has represented financial institutions, investors and private equity funds in their most complex restructuring, transactional, and insolvency matters in Puerto Rico and the US.

Career

Prior to founding Marini Pietrantoni Muniz LLC, Luis was a capital member, head of the Litigation Department, and co-chair of the Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Insolvency Group at O’Neill & Borges LLC and also practiced in Washington D.C., at Shaw Pittman LLP (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman).

Professional Memberships

Luis served on the Local Bankruptcy Rule Committee of the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Puerto Rico, on the Advisory Board for the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Caribbean Insolvency Symposium, and was an associate editor for the American Bar Association’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Litigation committee.

Luis is currently the President of the Iberoamerican Institute of Insolvency Law , Puerto Rico Chapter.

Publications

-How to Prosecute and Defend an Avoidance Action Under the United States Bankruptcy Code, a chapter in the book titled “Avoidance Actions Across Latin America and Europe” (Los Mecanismos de Incremento de la Masa Activa: Reintegracion y Responsabilidad. Asuntos Transversales), 20th Anniversary Edition, Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Concursal (2024) (co-author)

- The Business of Bankruptcy: Becoming a Bankruptcy Lawyer, From the Bar, a Publication of the Federal Bar Association, Spring 2024, Issue No. 64 (co-author).

- Welcome to the IIDC – Hon. Gerardo A. Altieri, Puerto Rico Chapter, From the Bar, a Publication of the Federal Bar Association, Spring 2024, Issue No. 64 (author).

- Executory Contracts: A Practical Guide, American Bankruptcy Institute (2007) (author)

- Estate of Branson v. Commissioner, 53 Tax Law 791, Spring 2000 (author).

- Cuba’s Perfeccionamiento Empresarial Law: A Step Towards Privatization?, 23 U. Pa. J. Int’l Econ. L 119, Spring 2009 (assisted in article).