Firm Information: AIG Plaza, #1400, 250 Munoz Rivera Ave. San Juan, PR 00918 , Puerto Rico Web Site: www.gaclaw.com Tel: (787) 759-8000 +2341 Fax: (787) 767-9177 Contact: Mr. Carlos A. Rodriguez Vidal Email: crodriguez-vidal@gaclaw.com Attorney Information: AIG Plaza, #1400, 250 Munoz Rivera Ave. San Juan, PR 00918 Tel: (787) 759-8000 +2341 Fax: (787) 767-9177 Email: crodriguez-vidal@gaclaw.com

Firm Profile: In response to the Commonwealth's increasingly complex business and legal environments, we have organized our firm into four primary practice groups: corporate and banking law, labor and employment law, tax law, and litigation and trial practice. Our lawyers strive to provide every client with an efficient, precisely targeted legal solution designed to protect and promote the client's interests. In order to achieve that objective, each attorney's practice is limited to a few areas of law, while members of varied practice groups routinely coordinate their efforts to provide comprehensive services to clients with issues that involve various areas of law.

Firm Background:

In Business Since: 1959

Serving the Franchising Community Since: 1964

% of Total Billable Hours Billed to Clients in the Franchising Industry: 25%

Full-time Employees: 85

Full-time Professionals: 42

Major Franchising Clients in Past 3 Years: UPS Stores; Play 'N Trade; P.F. Chang's; Little Caesars Pizza; 7-Eleven; Tunex; Inches-A-Weigh; Planet Beach; World Gym; Cold Stone Creamery; Outback Steakhouse; Baskin-Robbins

Attorney Profile: Vidal's daily work currently revolves around disputes involving construction, franchise, distribution and sales representation contracts and various other types of civil and commercial contracts. Because of the nature of Puerto Rico's continuously evolving economy and legal landscape, Mr. Rodriguez-Vidal has also worked over the years in diverse areas of substantative and procedural law, including federal practice and procedure, banking, government procurement and bids, product liability, insurance, antitrust, intellectual property, and petroleum marketing practices.

Year Admitted to the Bar: 1983

Licensed to Practice in: Puerto Rico, District of Columbia

Education/Honors: B.A., Haverford College, Haverford, PA; J.D., Columbia Law School

Professional Associations/Memberships: Colegio De Abogados De Puerto Rico; American Bar Association

Publications: "The concept of just cause for the lawful termination of a dealership," LVIII University of Puerto Rico Law Review 261 (1989)

Provide Legal Services in U.S.: Yes, Puerto Rico

Provide Legal Services in Canada: No

Provide Legal Services Internationally: No

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