Yahaira De la Rosa Algarín

Attorney

DLA Piper

Yahaira De la Rosa-Algarín focuses her practice in the areas of Litigation and Regulation. She represents clients in general civil and commercial litigation before the federal and Puerto Rico district courts and in regulatory matters before the Puerto Rico Energy Office.

Yahaira has handled a wide variety of matters, including local appellate practice, constitutional, consumer class actions, construction, professional liability, medical malpractice, aviation, bidding and procurement, administrative, energy regulatory, banking, securities litigation and arbitration. He has experience representing Fortune 500 companies, broker-dealers and some of the largest companies in Puerto Rico.

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Yahaira worked in the Litigation Practice Group of a leading Puerto Rico firm, where she represented two of the largest U.S. and Puerto Rico brokerage firms in arbitration cases following the Puerto Rico bond market turmoil. She also represented a major U.S. consumer lending institution before the Puerto Rico Department of Consumer Affairs and state courts.

Yahaira has extensive local appellate experience, having successfully represented clients before the Puerto Rico Supreme Court in constitutional, property and professional liability cases.

Previously, Yahaira clerked at the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. During her law studies in Puerto Rico, she worked as a research assistant to Professor Luis Aníbal Avilés-Pagán.

Yahaira obtained her law degrees from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, the University of Puerto Rico School of Law and the Universitat de Barcelona, making her the only lawyer in Puerto Rico with law degrees from the United Kingdom, Spain and Puerto Rico.

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