Natalia E. Galíndez-Velázquez is an attorney-at- law and certified public accountant with significant practicing experience in the fields of Taxation, Litigation, Estate Planning, Civil Practice, Contracts, Administrative and Corporate law. She has been an associate attorney and tax consultant at MHSJ since 2015. Galíndez-Velázquez provides counsel to privately held businesses on a broad range of issues, including mergers and acquisitions, the drafting of contracts and corporate documents, tax and general planning, contract performance audits and consulting as well as the due diligence process.

She has assisted clients in tax audits and negotiations before the Puerto Rico Treasury Department and local municipalities. Galíndez-Velázquez assists clients with the preparation, negotiation and filing of tax exemption applications before the Department of Economic Development and Commerce of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company.

While working towards her Juris Doctor degree, Galíndez-Velázquez served as an educational instructor in the Puerto Rico Supreme Court from 2012 to 2014. As an educational instructor, she assisted in establishing and developing the Civil Rights Educational Program of the Court, while serving as a liaison to the public. Previously, Galíndez-Velázquez interned in the Office of the Governor, Labor Advisors Divisions where she researched and evaluated international labor legislation as part of an effort to streamline and improve local labor laws and practices.

During the same period Galíndez-Velázquez participated actively in student life as a representative to the faculty for the School of Law Student Council, and as a student coordinator in the pro bono Public High School enhancement program ENLACE.

As a student, Galíndez-Velázquez participated in several international exchange programs, taking courses at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Adolfo Ibáñez University and Diego Portales University, in Santiago, Chile.