LINDA LARREA
Linda Larrea received her Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1992, where she served as President of the Latin American Law Students Association and was the founder of the Street Law Clinic, which later received federal funding.
She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Miami in 1989.
Ms. Larrea started her career as an attorney at one of the world’s leading law firms, Baker & McKenzie, where she handled complex real estate and corporate matters with an emphasis on a European clientele.
Ms. Larrea also worked as an attorney at Greenberg Traurig, LLP, where she handled a wide variety of transactions involving institutional clients, individual developers and investors.
Ms. Larrea’s legal experience has encompassed all aspects of a complex real estate practice, representing clients in joint ventures, construction and permanent lending, and many other areas of real property and corporate practice.
Ms. Larrea
has also structured transactions using diverse legal entities such as general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies, and foreign corporations.
She has represented a large number of foreign entities in the United States and has conducted due diligence, organized closings and rendered legal opinions in connection with a variety of real estate and corporate transactions.
She also has significant experience in the development process, including the initial acquisition of raw land, establishment of infrastructure, subdivision of property, project construction and the sale of platted lots.
Concurrent with the development process, Ms. Larrea also has structured several property owners associations and has drafted accompanying declarations of restrictive covenants.
Ms. Larrea is fluent in Spanish and Italian, and conversational in French.
She was director of the Family Resource Center and has been involved in the Dade Community Foundation and the Leukemia Society of Florida.
Aileen Ortega received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1992 where she served as editor of the
Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
She received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance, with Honors, from the University of Florida in 1989.
While at the University of Florida, Ms. Ortega served as a councilman for the Business Administration College Student Council and as Chairperson of the Conduct Board.
She also received the Outstanding Minority Student Scholar Award in 1989.
Having started her career as an attorney at one of the largest corporate law firms in Florida, Greenberg Traurig, Ms. Ortega has handled complex property matters for major clients involving millions of dollars.
She also worked as an attorney at Shutts & Bowen LLP, the oldest law firm in Miami, where she was exposed to transactions involving large, established, institutional clients.
She has developed expertise in a wide variety of commercial and real estate transactions, with a particular emphasis on commercial real estate acquisitions and loans.
She also has experience in commercial leasing, condominium development, floor plan financing, construction loans, documentary stamp tax and intangible tax issues, loan workouts (including deeds in lieu of foreclosure), partnership and limited liability company matters, title issues, opinion letters, asset-based lending, survey matters, secured transactions and general corporate transactions.
Ms. Ortega also assists clients in structuring joint ventures, partnerships, land trusts, limited liability companies and corporations, and in negotiating and closing many other types of contractual arrangements.
Ms. Ortega has almost 17 years of experience representing lenders, borrowers, real estate developers, investors, brokers, operators, owners’ associations, foreign investors, business owners, landlords, tenants, and
condominium associations.
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HENRY R. ROQUE
Henry R. Roque earned a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from American University, Washington College of Law in 2008. Mr. Roque also earned an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 2009, where he served as Graduate Editor of the NYU Journal of Law & Business.
During law school, Mr. Roque served as Editor of the Business Law Brief and as a student attorney for the Janet R. Spragens
Federal Tax Clinic. While at the clinic, he successfully represented low-income taxpayers in administrative proceedings against the Internal Revenue Service and before the United States Tax Court. In recognition of his exemplary service to the clinic and its clients, Mr. Roque was awarded the Dean's Award for Professional Responsibility and Outstanding Clinical Student at the law school's commencement ceremony. He also participated in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) in Washington, D.C., where he prepared federal tax returns for low-income taxpayers. Mr. Roque
received the "Highest Grade Designation" for his performance in Contracts and Partnership Taxation.
In the summer of 2006, Mr. Roque worked as a Legal Consultant in the Co-Financing and Project Finance Unit, Office the Legal Vice-Presidency of The World Bank in Washington, D.C., where he researched the interplay between contracts law and trust law of several jurisdictions in the United States and the United Kingdom. Mr. Roque holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Economics and Legal Studies from the University of Miami.
Mr. Roque
has a lengthy history with the firm, where he began as a legal assistant to Linda Larrea
in 2001 and returned as a summer associate while in law school. He currently practices in the area of taxation, estate planning, asset protection, real estate and general corporate law. Mr. Roque was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2008.
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