International Law & White Collar Criminal Defense Lawyers

Diaz Reus LLP

Main Office

Miami Tower at International Place
100 Southeast Second Street, Suite 3400
Miami, Florida 33131

(305) 375-9220

(305) 375-8050

www.diazreus.com

Contact Michael Diaz Jr.

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Other Offices: Buenos Aires Sao Paulo Santiago Shanghai Bogota Frankfurt Am Main Mexico City Panama City Dubai New York (NY) Caracas

Law Firm Overview

Diaz Reus, LLP is a talented global law firm offering comprehensive legal services to U.S.-based and international clients, including multinational corporations, The Fortune 500, foreign government entities, public officials, domestic and international banks and other financial institutions, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals.

Diaz Reus lawyers have experience in International and U.S. Law high-stakes international litigation and arbitration involving intellectual property rights, business and contractual disputes, trademark and copyright violations, financial fraud claims, asset-recovery, anti-money-laundering compliance, and criminal and civil RICO cases, as well as in regulatory and white-collar criminal defense. In addition, skilled, multilingual transactional lawyers at Diaz Reus can handle multinational and domestic corporate formation, licensing, tax, mergers and acquisitions, immigration, trust and estate, and family law matters worldwide.

From offices in Miami, Orlando, Caracas, Shanghai, Dubai, Frankfurt, Bogotá, Panama, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Sao Paulo, our multicultural lawyers operate seamlessly in international courts and arbitral tribunals. Diaz Reus international lawyers, solicitors and foreign legal consultants speak English, Spanish, Czech, Mandarin Chinese, Shanghainese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Italian, French, Portuguese, and German.

Year this Office was Established: 1998

Languages: Spanish; Czech; Mandarin Chinese; Shanghainese; Japanese; Russian; Arabic; Hindi; Italian; French; Portuguese; German; English.

Areas of Law

Areas of Law Description

Diaz Reus, LLP international practice areas range across a full spectrum of legal issues including both litigation and transactional matters. Global clients seek our legal counsel in international practice areas that cover representation in high-stakes international litigation and arbitration, white-collar criminal defense, bank secrecy laws, money laundering compliance, government, corporate and intellectual-property matters. Our diverse international practice focuses on these principal areas:

- Appeals and Trial Support

Our attorneys have won significant, high-profile victories and precedent-setting decisions in appellate courts for our clients in complex commercial disputes, financial services litigation, white-collar criminal defense and more. Further, we provide seasoned arbitration and trial support in both civil and criminal cases, including electronic document preservation, litigating critical motions, researching and drafting motions at all litigation stages, and serving as issue-preservation counsel at trial and arbitration hearings.

- Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, Asset Collections and Liquidation Proceedings

Our law firm provides international legal expertise in multinational corporate bankruptcy, international liquidations, creditors’ rights, and international asset collections. Our bankruptcy attorneys are also experienced in domestic corporate bankruptcy filings and individual bankruptcy.

- Business and Family Immigration

In today’s ever globalizing economy and job market, Diaz Reus’ seasoned attorneys and solicitors stand ready to help international and domestic businesses maximize their greatest resource—their people though their extensive knowledge, experience and global contacts.

- Commercial and Residential Real Estate

Across Latin America and the Caribbean, the U.S. and the E.U., the Middle East and Asia, Diaz Reus’ lawyers, solicitors, and consultants help our clients—from Chinese governmental entities to Fortune 500 corporations to entrepreneurs and individuals—build, buy, sell, lease, and protect real estate holdings of all types and sizes.

- Complex Commercial Disputes

Talented Diaz Reus attorneys successfully resolve complex domestic commercial disputes for sophisticated clients across a range of industries through proven litigation and arbitration strategies before federal and state juries, trial courts, appellate courts and arbitration tribunals.

- Contracts & Agreements

With fluent foreign language capabilities and true international experience in foreign markets— Latin America, the European Union, the Middle East and Far East—our attorneys, solicitors and consultants comfortably traverse diverse legal and cultural environments in the local language to negotiate and draft a full range of business contracts and agreements from joint venture to partnerships to mergers and acquisitions.

- Corporate Finance & Private Equity

Our multilingual global corporate finance and private equity attorneys, solicitors and consultants are knowledgeable in world capital markets and regulations, as well as adept at analyzing and structuring global financial transactions that maximize your value—whether you are investigating, purchasing, holding or disposing of a global asset, borrowing or lending.

- Corporate Formation & Maintenance

Innovative attorneys and solicitors help our clients—from government entities to entrepreneurs, from closely-held businesses to corporations—form and structure the right transnational entities to maximize and ease their global reach, minimize tax and regulatory costs, and attract financing and talent.

- Estate Planning & Tax

Skilled Diaz Reus estate planners and tax attorneys & consultants work to ensure that your hard-earned assets—your business, investments and property—benefit you, your family, charities and other designees to the maximum and achieve your specific objectives.

- Family Law

Our multicultural family law attorneys and solicitors operate successfully across international borders and legal systems in divorce, prenuptial agreements, child custody and other multicultural family-law matters. We work hand-in-hand with you to help you understand your options, so you maintain the utmost control over your future and that of your family.

- Financial Services, OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets and Control) Bank Secrecy Laws, Money-Laundering Compliance & Litigation

Skilled and certified Diaz Reus anti-money-laundering consultants and litigators represent banks, traditional and non-traditional financial institutions, government entities, public officials, and private individuals relating to compliance with OFAC regulations and bank secrecy laws, prevention and detection of money laundering, and the defense against alleged violations of these laws and regulations.

- Government Relations

From our multilingual Miami headquarters—and through our offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia—we manage our network of legal affiliates, regional and local consultants, and government connections to help Diaz Reus' clients navigate murky legislative, legal, trade and regulatory waters with foreign and U.S. governments at all levels.

- Intellectual Property, Trademarks and Copyrights

Our globally savvy and experienced attorneys effectively work to protect your key intellectual property assets—your trademarks, copyrights, ideas and good name—wherever you do business.

- International and Domestic White-Collar Criminal Defense

At Diaz Reus we know white-collar crime in depth, as federal and state prosecutors and as defense counsel, and have turned back allegations and achieved positive outcomes in high-profile cases for multi-national corporations, businesspeople, professionals, government officials and others, in domestic and international criminal investigations and prosecutions.

- International Corporate Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, Asset Collections and Liquidation Proceedings

At Diaz Reus we bring our creditors’ rights clients unparalleled experience in international asset recovery and financial fraud cases to assist creditors, liquidators, trustees and acquirers of distressed assets to identify, locate and seize financial and other assets around the world.

- International Fraud and Asset Recovery

A growing global economy has, unfortunately, stimulated cross-border fraud and financial crimes. At Diaz Reus, we frequently represent victims of high stakes massive international financial fraud including Pyramid and Ponzi schemes, victimized foreign governments and entities, business owners, financial institutions and multinational corporations. DRT attorneys, solicitors, investigators and consultants have vast experience in searching and securing assets for victims of complex financial-fraud schemes including allegations of public corruption, securities and banking fraud, bribery, foreign corrupt practices, extortion, fraud, theft, embezzlement, money laundering and other white-collar crimes.

- International Litigation and Arbitration

From offices in Miami and around the globe, multilingual and multicultural Diaz Reus attorneys effectively and successfully resolve complex transnational business, contractual and commercial disputes in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States for clients such as Tyco International, Canon Latin America, BenQ Electronics, and government entities from the Republics of China, Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras and more.

- Mergers & Acquisitions

With culturally sensitive, business-savvy, multilingual attorneys, solicitors, and consultants on the ground throughout the world, Diaz Reus successfully guides its international clients—from multinational corporations to entrepreneurs—through the legal complexities and regulatory demands found in cross-national mergers and acquisitions.

- Pro-Active Portfolio Monitoring™

For asset managers with fiduciary duties towards the investor, responsible investing involves more than just properly selecting securities, balancing portfolios and accurately reporting to investors. It also means recouping for investors their rightful proceeds in securities fraud litigation—and Pro-Active Portfolio Monitoring™ can help.

- Tax

Our international tax attorneys aid our multinational and individual clients in crafting effective tax plans that organize their holdings to minimize taxes in all areas of their business. On the ground in Latin America, the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, our lawyers, solicitors, and consultants know how to structure international transactions and organizations to comply with diverse tax regulations while seizing opportunities to minimize taxes and maximize profits.

Affiliations

Florida Bar
Dade County Bar Association (DCBA)
American Bar Association
American Trial Lawyers Association

Partners

	Mr. Gary E. Davidson Partner Admiralty and Maritime, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, Aviation Law, Business Law		Mr. George Diaz Partner Business Law, Commercial Law, Construction Law, Corporate Law, Project Finance
	Mr. Michael Diaz, Jr. Managing Partner Administrative Law, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Banking Law, Business Law		Mr. Carlos F. Gonzalez Partner Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, International Law, Litigation
	Mr. Brant C. Hadaway Partner Admiralty and Maritime, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Appellate Practice, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation		Mr. Alexander Reus Attorney Business and Industry, Business Law, Business Litigation, Capital Markets, Class Actions
	Mr. Robert I. Targ Partner Administrative Law, Banking Law, Civil Litigation, Criminal Defense, Criminal Law