Miami service area

Miami functions as a meeting point rather than a single market. Companies and families here maintain working relationships with Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia, and those relationships shape the legal questions that arrive: which entity to form, who owns it, how money moves, who can lawfully come to run it, and how those arrangements should be protected when family, ownership, partnership or transaction circumstances change.

The industries reflect that mix. Hospitality and restaurants, residential and commercial real estate, trade and logistics, finance, technology, professional services and the U.S. arms of multinational companies are all regular sources of work.

For founders and investors, the recurring questions are E-2, EB-5 and the choice between building a business and buying one. For established companies, they are L-1A and L-1B transfers and the EB-1C category that sometimes follows. For professionals and specialists, they are H-1B, O-1 and the national interest waiver. For families, they are marriage-based and family petitions, consular processing and naturalization.

Alongside them sits the Florida side of the work: forming the entity, drafting the operating or shareholder agreement, negotiating the lease, papering the acquisition, and putting private-client agreements in place before rather than after they are needed.