Miami-based bankruptcy firm Genovese, Joblove & Battista has been appointed special counsel to the Unsecured Creditor’s Committee of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

The team — led by John Arrastia, John Genovese and Jesus Suarez — will work alongside UCC general counsel Paul Hastings as it pursues claims on behalf of unsecured creditors in Puerto Rico’s more than $100 billion bankruptcy reorganization.