Estimated Hearing Date: November 2, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. AST

Objection Deadline: October 24, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. AST

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

PROMESA

Title III

 No. 17-BK-03283 (LTS) 

(Jointly Administered)

NOTICE OF FILING OF FIFTEENTH INTERIM APPLICATION OF

LUSKIN, STERN & EISLER LLP, AS SPECIAL COUNSEL TO THE 

FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AND MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR PUERTO RICO 

FOR PROFESSIONAL COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES 

FOR THE PERIOD FROM FEBRUARY 1, 2022 THROUGH MARCH 15, 2022 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on October 3, 2022, pursuant to this Court’s 

Third Amended Order Setting Procedures for Interim Compensation and Reimbursement of 

Expenses of Professionals [Docket No. 20546] (as amended, the “Interim Compensation Order”), 

Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP, as Special Counsel to the Financial Oversight and Management 

Board for Puerto Rico, filed the Fifteenth Interim Application of Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP, as 

Special Conflicts Counsel to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico 

for Professional Compensation and Reimbursement of Expenses, for the Period from February 

1, 2021 through March 15, 2022 (the “Application”).2

1 The Debtors in these jointly-administered Title III Cases, along with each Debtor’s respective Title III case number 

listed as a bankruptcy case number due to software limitations and the last four (4) digits of each Debtor’s federal 

tax identification number, as applicable, are the (i) Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Bankruptcy Case No. 17 BK 

3283-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3481); (ii) Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation 

(“COFINA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17 BK 3284-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 8474); (iii) Employees 

Retirement System of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (“ERS”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17 BK 

3566-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 9686); (iv) Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority 

(“HTA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17 BK 3567-LTS) Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3808); and (v) Puerto Rico 

Electric Power Authority (“PREPA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17 BK 4780-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 

3747).

2

 Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings given to them in the Application.

In re

THE FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AND 

MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR PUERTO RICO,

as representative of

THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, et al.,

Debtors.1

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PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that any response or objection to the 

Application by any party other than the Fee Examiner must (a) be in writing, (b) conform to the 

Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, the Interim Compensation Order, and the Sixteenth 

Amended Notice, Case Management and Administrative Procedures [Docket No. 20190] 

(the “Case Management Procedures”), and (c) be filed with the Court and served on the entities 

below, so as to be received on or before October 24,3 2022 at 4:00 p.m. (AST) (the “Objection 

Deadline”):

(a) the Office of the United States Trustee for Region 21, Edificio Ochoa, 

500 Tanca Street, Suite 301, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901; 

(b) the attorneys for the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto 

Rico as representative of the Debtors, Proskauer Rose LLP, Eleven Times 

Square, New York, New York 10036, Attn: Martin J. Bienenstock, Esq., Brian 

S. Rosen, Esq., Paul V. Possinger, Esq., Ehud Barak, Esq., and Maja Zerjal, 

Esq.; 

(c) the attorneys for the Financial Oversight and Management Board as 

representative of Debtors, O’Neill & Borges LLC, 250 Muñoz Rivera 

Avenue, Suite 800, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918-1813, Attn: Hermann D. 

Bauer, Esq.; 

(d) the attorneys for the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory 

Authority, O’Melveny & Meyers LLP, Times Square Tower, 7 Times Square, 

New York, New York 10036, Attn: John J. Rapisardi, Esq., Suzzanne 

Uhland, Esq., Peter Friedman, Esq., Nancy A. Mitchell, Esq. and Maria J. 

DiConza, Esq.; 

3 NTD: 20 days after file date.

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(e) the attorneys for the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory 

Authority, Marini Pietrantoni Muñiz, LLC, MCS Plaza, Suite 500, 255 

Avenida Ponce de León, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00917, Attn: Luis C. MariniBiaggi, Esq., Carolina Velaz-Rivero, Esq., and Iván Garau-González, Esq.;

(f) the attorneys for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, 

Paul Hastings LLP, 200 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10166, Attn: Luc 

A. Despins, Esq., James Bliss, Esq., James Worthington, Esq. and G. 

Alexander Bongartz, Esq.;

(g) the attorneys for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors, Casillas, 

Santiago & Torres LLC, El Caribe Office Building, 53 Palmeras Street, Suite 

1601, San Juan, Puerto Rico 009001, Attn: Juan J. Casillas Ayala, Esq., Diana 

M. Battle-Barasorda, Alberto J.E. Añeses Negrón, Esq. and Ericka C. 

Montull-Novoa, Esq.;

(h) the attorneys for the Official Committee of Retired Employees, Jenner & 

Block LLP, 919 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022, Attn: Robert 

Gordon, Esq. and Richard Levin, Esq., and Catherine Steege, Esq.;

(i) the attorneys for the Official Committee of Retired Employees, Bennazar, 

García & Milián, C.S.P., Edificio Union Plaza, PH-A, 416 Avenida Ponce de 

León, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00918, Attn: A.J. Bennazar-Zequeira, Esq.;

(j) the Puerto Rico Department of Treasury, P.O. Box 9024140, San Juan, Puerto 

Rico 00902-4140, Attn: Reylam Guerra Goderich, Deputy Assistant of 

Central Accounting; Omar E. Rodríguez Pérez, CPA, Assistant Secretary of 

Central Accounting; Angel L. Pantoja Rodríguez, Deputy Assistant Secretary 

of Internal Revenue and Tax Policy; Francisco Parés Alicea, Assistant 

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Secretary of Internal Revenue and Tax Policy; and Francisco Peña Montañez, 

CPA, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury;

(k) attorneys for the Fee Examiner, Edge Legal Strategies, PSC, 252 Ponce de 

León Avenue, Citibank Tower, 12th Floor, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918, 

Attn: Eyck O. Lugo; and 

(l) attorneys for the Fee Examiner, Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., One East Main Street, 

Suite 500, Madison, Wisconsin 53703, Attn: Katherine Stadler, Esq. 

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that if (a) no objection is timely filed and 

served in accordance with the Interim Compensation Order and Case Management Procedures 

and (b) all issues raised by the Fee Examiner are consensually resolved, the relief requested may 

be granted without a hearing. 

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that copies of the Application and all 

documents filed in these title III cases are available (a) free of charge by visiting 

https://cases.ra.kroll.com/puertorico or by calling +1 (844) 822-9231, and (b) on the Court’s 

website at http://www.prd.uscourts.gov, subject to the procedures and fees set forth therein. 

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Dated: White Plains, New York Respectfully submitted,

October 3, 2022 

/s/ Michael Luskin

Michael Luskin (admitted pro hac vice) 

Lucia T. Chapman (admitted pro hac vice) 

Stephan E. Hornung (admitted pro hac vice) 

LUSKIN, STERN & EISLER LLP

50 Main Street

White Plains, New York 10606 

Telephone: (212) 597-8200 

Facsimile: (212) 597-8240 

luskin@lsellp.com

chapman@lsellp.com

hornung@lsellp.com

Special Counsel to the Financial Oversight and 

Management Board for Puerto Rico 

/s/ Hermann D. Bauer 

Hermann D. Bauer

USDC No. 215205 

O’NEILL & BORGES LLC

250 Muñoz Rivera Ave., Suite 800 

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918-1813 

Telephone: (787) 764-8181 

Facsimile: (787) 753-8944 

Co-Attorneys for the Financial Oversight and 

Management Board for Puerto Rico

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