Solymar Castillo-Morales - San Juan, PR

Overview

Solymar Castillo Morales is a Capital Member who specializes in bankruptcy law and creditors’ rights in the firm's Litigation and Trial Practice Department, which she joined in 2010. Before joining Goldman Antonetti & Cordova, Ms. Castillo worked at various law firms in San Juan, and as Legal Advisor and Director of the Collections Bureau at the Puerto Rico Department of Treasury, where, among other things, she was negotiated Closing Agreements and Offers & Compromise submitted by taxpayers to determine their feasibility and compliance with the Internal Revenue Code of Puerto Rico and established public policy.

She has represented and advised numerous organizations and individuals on legal issues regarding Commercial, Tax and Bankruptcy Law, as well as other types of civil matters, mainly Torts, Construction, Contracts, Trademarks, Foreclosures and Labor Law. Ms. Castillo also served as an independent investigator for the Ethics Commission of the Senate of Puerto Rico, analyzing compliance with ethics regulations in financial reports filed by lawmakers. As part of her work at Goldman, she has also represented Unsecured Creditors’ Committees and Developers’ claims on contractors’ bankruptcy proceedings, in addition to work related to property taxes claims at the administrative level and in Puerto Rico courts. She is also the firm’s coordinator of the Summer Law Clerk Program.

Ms. Castillo is a co-author of the Chapter 7 Bankruptcies Statistics and Analysis of the Inside the Minds, Chapter 7 Consumer Bankruptcy Strategies, 2011 Edition for Aspatore Books; and, Best Practices for filing Chapter 13, 2015 Edition for Aspatore Books.