Magda M. Boyles

Ms. Boyles' primary practice area is corporate law, focusing primarily on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate transactional matters. She has also represented banks, commercial finance companies and other institutional lenders with respect to secured transactions, commercial lending and asset-based financing. Ms. Boyles, who holds a Management Certificate from The Wharton School, is able to provide her clients with "value-added legal advice" as a result of her technical business training and hands-on business experience. Having an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and having worked in various management capacities within the corporate world such as Foote, Cone & Belding and Coors Brewing Company, she understands the business principles and motivations that drive business today. Given this unique combination of significant business experience and legal training, her approach to the practice of law is pragmatic and straightforward. During her tenure at McConnell Valdes, Ms. Boyles has participated in the legal team handling the following key transactions: · Served as counsel for a leading advertising and marketing services global network in the reorganization and purchase of a local advertising agency and its affiliates. · Served as local counsel for a corporate restructuring of a leading producer of chocolate and sugar confectionery. · Acted as counsel to a hospitality developer in connection with financing arrangements, including subordinated debt facilities, for a major hotel development in Puerto Rico. · Served as counsel to a local advertising agency regarding operative agreements, financing matters, vendor contractual matters and corporate governance. · Acted as underwriters counsel in the $152 million P.R. Public Building Authority's Government Facilities Revenue Refunding Bonds. · Acted as bond counsel in the $1.4 billion Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico 2009 Series C and D public offering. · Served as local counsel in a worldwide financing facility for a global retailer of premium brands. · Served as counsel in the sale of a pharmaceutical facility. · Served as government affairs/lobbying representative for a leading business software and hardware technology company. Prior to joining McConnell Valdes in 2008, Ms. Boyles was an Associate at Vedder Price and prior to Vedder Price, she was an Associate at Schwartz, Cooper, Greenberger & Krauss, Chartered (recently acquired by Dykema). Ms. Boyles served as a board director of the Illinois Finance Authority from 2005-2008 where she spearheaded and chaired the Diversity Committee.

• Counsel

• Vedder Price, Associate
• Schwartz, Cooper, Greenberger & Krauss, Associate
• Foote, Cone & Belding and Coors Brewing Company

• Illinois
• Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

• Puerto Rico Bar Association
• American Bar Association, 2005 - 2008