Attorneys

JUAN RAMÓN CANCIO VELA, admitted to Puerto Rico Bar in January 2024.

Education: University of Notre Dame (B.A., International Economics), 2015; Tulane University Law School, J.D., 2022.

Mr. Cancio Vela joined CCS in 2022 as an associate attorney and works for both the Corporate and Litigation Departments. Before attending law school, Mr. Cancio Vela worked in wealth management and corporate finance for a combined total of over four years.

Prior to joining CCS, Mr. Cancio Vela completed General Electric’s Financial Management Program (“FMP”), which is an executive grooming program that pushes analysts to complete four six-month rotations in different GE businesses, each of which highlights a unique corporate finance core competency. Additionally, the FMP program extends beyond these full-time work experiences by also requiring analysts to complete seven corporate finance courses alongside normal work duties. These courses encompass foundational accounting principles and specialized financial topics alike; for example, one course delineated the various commercial financing structures General Electric offered key industrial clientel. After completing the two-year management program at GE, Mr. Cancio Vela became a Multi-plant Finance Manager at ASEA Brown Boveri for two industrial factories located in Puerto Rico. During his tenure as a finance manager, Mr. Cancio Vela analyzed variable and fixed cost operational expenses generated at both factories, facilitated the migration of the factories’ operational expenses onto ABB’s financial reporting structure, analyzed factory cost-performance compared to expected finished-goods cost-yield, and designed budgets incorporating the latest revised-production-guidance to maintain adequate cost-yield at the factories.

While attending Tulane Law, Mr. Cancio Vela worked as a tax-law research assistant for Professor McCarden, as a teaching assistant for Professor Gard at the Freeman School of Business, and as a student attorney for the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. During the first semester of his clinic experience, Mr. Cancio Vela interviewed an immigrant client, drafted their sworn-declaration and wrote a legal brief arguing for the client’s eligibility for a special immigration status. In the final semester of his clinic experience, Mr. Cancio Vela designed a client intake-and-screening procedure for immigrants eligible for temporary protected status (TPS). After an additional group of immigrants became eligible for this protection mid-semester, Mr. Cancio Vela prepared a comprehensive training on the legal elements of TPS for a class of law students with only one week’s notice. The students, who had no previous training in this immigration protection, were then immediately assigned to assist clients using these training materials.

As part of the CCS team, he is primarily engaged in the areas of commercial transactions, corporate law, tax law, real estate law, and foreclosure and collection suits. Apart from the aforementioned primary areas of law, he has also gained experience with legal research and writing to support the Litigation Department, and Mr. Cancio Vela has also conducted and coordinated pre-production document reviews searching for materials protected under legal privilege and confidentiality on e-Discovery platforms like OneDiscovery and Everlaw.