Robert S. Griggs

E-mail address:  rsg@mcvpr.com
Phone number:  (787) 250-5639; (941) 914-4260 (Oct.-May); 011.41.27.771.9207 (June-Sept.)
Fax number:  (941) 927-0400

Robert S. Griggs has been with the firm since 1954 and was a member from 1958 until he retired in 1991. For twelve years he was the Managing Partner of the Firm. He has continued since then as Special Counsel.

Practice Areas

His practice is principally in the areas of corporate, tax and tax exemption matters affecting subsidiaries of United States and foreign country corporations operating in Puerto Rico.

Education

He obtained a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and a juris doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1952.

Admissions

He is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the State of New York and the U.S. District Court for the Puerto Rico District and for the Second District of New York.

Memberships

He is a member of the Puerto Rico Bar Association and of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has spoken at numerous legal and tax conferences on the taxation under United States and Puerto Rico law of corporations treated as "possessions corporations" or "controlled foreign corporations" in the United States Internal Revenue Code.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Flagstaff Institute, a §501(c)(3) non-profit research institution located in Flagstaff, Arizona, dedicated to improving world trade and business, and of the Board of Advisers of The Journal of International Taxation.

Publications

He has done extensive writing in The Journal of The Flagstaff Institute, the Journal of International Taxation and other legal and business publications. Some of his most recent articles in The Journal of International Taxation are "Puerto Rico Enacts New Tax Incentives Law to Counteract Section 936 Phase Down, in the February 1998 issue, "Last Tax Act of the Millennium Extends P&D Credit to Puerto Rico", in the June 2000 issue, and "Puerto Rico Seeks New Tax Incentives to Compensate for Loss of Section 936", in the November 2001 issue.