Antonio R. Pavía-Vidal represents clients in matters involving real estate, infrastructure, governmental affairs, recovery financing, grant management, federal acquisition and procurement, and manufacturing. He assists clients with Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit findings, as well as countering disallowance and deobligation of federal grant funding.
Antonio also manages and conducts competitive procurements for clients in order to assure compliance and to obtain the best value at fair and reasonable prices.
Prior to joining the Firm, Antonio served as Deputy Executive Director for the Central Office of Recovery and Reconstruction (COR3), which is Puerto Rico's centralized oversight authority for grant funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He oversaw the island's recovery efforts, with direct responsibility for guiding policy and implementing the FEMA Public Assistance Program and the Hazard Mitigation Disaster Grant Program. Antonio also acted as Chief Legal Counsel of COR3, where he oversaw procurement, contracting, and legal compliance. He led the administrative appeals process under FEMA's Public Assistance Program and the arbitration process promulgated by Section 1219 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018. He helped draft COR3 policies, procedures and internal controls to ensure full compliance with all federal and local rules and regulations in the disbursement of funds.
In these prior roles, Antonio managed all Congressional status reports on the Economic and Disaster Recovery Plan sent to U.S. Congress after hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Antonio has also worked at McConnell Valdés, the largest and oldest law firm in Puerto Rico, in the Real Estate and Finance Department, and V2A Consulting, a Puerto Rico consulting firm providing legal and contract guidance to reorganization projects, such as the reorganization plan that regulated the consolidation of several agencies under the Puerto Rico Economic Development and Commerce Department, the first reorganization done under Act 122 of 2017, known as the New Government Law. He has also advised businesses in manufacturing activities such as industrial R&D for new product development, recycling, and software and video-game development.