Solymar Castillo-Morales

Solymar Castillo-Morales is a capital member of Goldman Antonetti & Cordova’s Litigation and TrialPractice Department in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Before joining the firm, she worked as an associate for various law firms in San Juan and as legal advisor and director of the Collections Bureau at the PuertoRico Department of Treasury, where she was in charge of determining feasibility and compliance with the Internal Revenue Code of Puerto Rico and the established public policy, as well as negotiating closing agreements presented by individual and corporate taxpayers. Ms. Castillo-Morales has represented and advised numerous organizations and individuals on legal issues regarding commercial, tax and bankruptcy law, as well as other civil commercial matters, mainly construction and contracts. She also worked 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 cases, in addition to work with property tax claims in the administrative and local courts. She is also the coordinator of the firm’s summer law clerk program. Ms. Castillo-Moralesis a co-author of “Chapter 7 Bankruptcies Statistics and Analysis of the Inside the Minds,” Chapter 7Consumer Bankruptcy Strategies (Aspatore Books 2011), and Best Practices for Filing Chapter 13 (As-patore Books 2015). She received her B.A. cum laude in 1996 from the University of Puerto Rico and her J.D. in 1999 from the University of Puerto Rico Law School.