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Virtual data rooms in San Juan, PR

Virtual data rooms for San Juan deals, audits and legal matters

San Juan has 559 law offices and 309 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll firms with paid staff, by the Census Bureau's 2023 count. ShareAndGo gives San Juan teams a data room for that: one place per deal, audit or matter, with a record of who opened what.

The firms that share confidential documents in San Juan

Law in San Juan Municipio is mostly a small-firm business: 76 percent of its 559 law offices have fewer than five employees, against a median of 70 percent across the metros on these pages.

On the deal side, San Juan Municipio also counts 147 securities and investment establishments, 34 corporate and regional managing offices and 132 real estate brokerages.

About 10 percent of San Juan Municipio's 12,333 employer establishments, 1,181 in all, fall in these five groups.

  • Offices of lawyers (NAICS 541110): 559
  • Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services (NAICS 5412): 309
  • Offices of certified public accountants (NAICS 541211): 160
  • Securities, commodity contracts and like activity (NAICS 523): 147
  • Corporate, subsidiary and regional managing offices (NAICS 551114): 34
  • Offices of real estate agents and brokers (NAICS 531210): 132
  • Law offices by size: 427 under 5 employees, 72 with 5 to 9, 32 with 10 to 19, 22 with 20 to 49, 6 with 50 or more
  • Employees in law offices, mid-March 2023: about 2,700
  • Employees in accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: about 3,000

San Juan and the rest of Puerto Rico

The Census Bureau estimated San Juan Municipio's population at 332,454 in July 2024, out of 3,203,295 for Puerto Rico as a whole. San Juan's 559 offices of lawyers are 47 percent of the 1,195 on the island, and its 309 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments are 33 percent of 950.

That works out to 168.0 law offices per 100,000 residents in San Juan, against 37.3 for Puerto Rico. Of the island's 235 securities and investment establishments, 147 are in San Juan.

  • San Juan residents, July 2024: 332,454
  • Puerto Rico residents, July 2024: 3,203,295
  • Law offices: 559 in San Juan of 1,195 island-wide, 168.0 per 100,000 residents
  • Accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll: 309 in San Juan of 950 island-wide, 92.9 per 100,000 residents
  • Securities and investment: 147 in San Juan of 235 island-wide, 44.2 per 100,000 residents
  • Managing offices: 34 in San Juan of 91 island-wide, 10.2 per 100,000 residents
  • Real estate agents and brokers: 132 in San Juan of 335 island-wide, 39.7 per 100,000 residents
  • Employees in San Juan offices of lawyers: about 2,700

San Juan and its neighboring municipios

County Business Patterns treats each Puerto Rico municipio as a county, so this page uses San Juan Municipio's own figures. Next door, Guaynabo had 69 law offices, Bayamón 42 and Carolina 19, which puts San Juan's 559 well ahead of its neighbors combined.

  • San Juan Municipio: 332,454 residents, 559 offices of lawyers, 309 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments
  • Bayamón Municipio: 181,152 residents, 42 offices of lawyers, 51 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments
  • Carolina Municipio: 150,679 residents, 19 offices of lawyers, 28 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments
  • Guaynabo Municipio: 89,405 residents, 69 offices of lawyers, 44 accounting, tax, bookkeeping and payroll establishments

The courts and regulators behind San Juan paperwork

When a San Juan dispute reaches federal court, it goes to the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.

CPAs practicing in Puerto Rico are licensed by the Puerto Rico Board of Accountancy.

Locally, securities offerings and investment advisers in Puerto Rico answer to the Oficina del Comisionado de Instituciones Financieras (OCIF), so a San Juan fund raising money or an adviser facing an exam has documents to produce on request.

If personal information in a San Juan deal, audit or case file is exposed, Puerto Rico's data breach notification law sets who has to be told and when.

What a ShareAndGo data room does for San Juan legal work

For law firms and in-house legal teams in San Juan, a ShareAndGo room keeps the file in one place.

  • Dynamic watermarking stamps each page with the viewer's email and the date, so a leaked screenshot can be traced back to the recipient.
  • Every view, share, access and change goes into an audit log in which each entry carries a SHA-256 hash of the one before it, so an edit made after the fact can be detected.

San Juan FAQ

How many law firms are there in San Juan?
The Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns puts 559 offices of lawyers with paid employees in San Juan Municipio, 427 of them with fewer than five employees.
Can I keep one party out of some folders?
Yes. Access groups set each folder to allow, deny or inherit, and a denied folder is hidden from that group completely rather than grayed out.

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