José Julián Álvarez-Maldonado

José Julián Álvarez-Maldonado is counsel at TCM. He previously served as a shareholder, director, and chair of the Corporate Division at Fiddler Gonzalez & Rodriguez, P.S.C. 

Mr. Álvarez-Maldonado focuses on general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and corporate reorganizations. He helped draft the 1995 and 2009 versions of the Puerto Rico General Corporations Law. His M&A experience includes transactions involving soft-drink and bottling companies, movie-theater chains, national and local retailers, dairy companies, auto-parts wholesalers and retailers, and petroleum-products enterprises. 

An Associate Professor of Law at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law, Mr. Álvarez-Maldonado teaches corporate law courses and seminars. He is a contributing author of the textbook Puerto Rico Corporations Law—Analysis and Commentaries (2015). He has also served as President of the Puerto Rico Membership Committee of the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division. 

He was a member of the steering committee that drafted the Economic Incentives for the Development of Puerto Rico Act (2008)—now superseded by Act 60—and the Puerto Rico General Corporations Law (2009), currently in effect. 

Mr. Álvarez-Maldonado has held leadership roles in civic organizations, including President of the San Juan Advisory Board of The Salvation Army, where he chaired the Emergency Disaster Committee and the Corporate Partners program. He also served as President of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (2008–2009), where he has also served as Director, Secretary, Second Vice President, Chair of the Resolutions, Bylaws, and Nominations Committees, and President of the Council of Past Presidents (2016–2017). 

He has been recognized over the years as a Leading Individual in Chambers & Partners Global and Latin America.