Alexander Lugo

July 18, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"For all the bad things we hear about M&A generally, things are really great in the Main Street space, so we're having a great time," said Kevin Henderson, founding partner at transactional boutique SMB Law Group.

By Alexander Lugo

4 minute read

July 17, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Hogan Lovells represented Inter Miami, Skadden represented the global soccer superstar, and Proskauer Rose represented Major League Soccer.

By Alexander Lugo

2 minute read

July 14, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"Your workforce should be representative of your community because it makes you attuned to what is going on around you and it enables you to better support your staff and employees," said Adrian Felix, chair of Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod's DEI committee.

By Alexander Lugo

5 minute read

July 13, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"What is unique [in Florida] is that we do happen to have an extremely active state legislature. We have an extremely active gubernatorial administration so that, I daresay, is keeping employers on their toes," said Littler Mendelson Miami office managing shareholder Lori Brown.

By Alexander Lugo

2 minute read

July 06, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"When the tort reform was percolating, I was already out there looking for folks to be sure that we can properly service our clients," said Alan Nash, shareholder at Marshall Dennehey in charge of its Fort Lauderdale casualty group. "We see litigation continuing to trend upward."

By Alexander Lugo

3 minute read

July 06, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"Although it's a physical expansion for the firm into the Tampa, Orlando markets, it is not new territory for us," Berger Singerman managing partner Jordi Guso said. "Restructuring lawyers in our team have spent more time in the courtroom in the Middle District of Florida than they have in the Southern District of Florida."

By Alexander Lugo

3 minute read

July 05, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Firms based in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana all increased their presence in the Sunshine State in 2022, as did those based in New York.

By Alexander Lugo

4 minute read

June 30, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"There's a huge center of gravity here in the broadest possible sense," said Holland & Knight aviation finance partner William Coleman, who recently transferred to the region from Portland, Oregon.

By Alexander Lugo

4 minute read

June 29, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"[Miami's] not immune to all the macro economic forces. They impact the economy and commercial real estate market, but it has the benefit of reacting to those things from a position of relative strength," said John Sullivan, chair of DLA Piper's U.S. real estate practice.

By Alexander Lugo

5 minute read

June 27, 2023 | Daily Business Review

While salaries across the country rose by an average of about 4%, Florida's four respondents grew salaries by an average of 12%, according to the 2023 NLJ 500 report.

By Alexander Lugo

3 minute read