AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

• Super Lawyers Rising Star 2016
• Super Lawyers Rising Star 2017
• Super Lawyers Rising Star 2018
• Super Lawyers Rising Star 2019
• Top 20 Jury Verdicts 2019:  Florida
• Daily Business Review’s 2019 Litigation Department of the Year | Intellectual Property
• Super Lawyers Rising Star 2020
• Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite 2020

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Represented liquidating trustee in $2.75 million settlement of action against former officers and directors of public company that owned artifacts recovered from shipwreck of RMS Titanic.
• Tried case involving unfair competition by software development company to $19.5 million favorable verdict.
• Represented members in $1 million partnership dispute resulting in favorable verdict after bench trial.
• Represented homeowner in appeal affirming order against municipality compelling performance of legal duty.
• Represented successor of businessperson in appeal affirming favorable $1.8 million judgment against former partner.
• Represented investors in $5.5 million federal securities fraud case involving violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
• Represented real estate brokerage and investor in $18.4 million dispute arising from joint venture to assemble and develop extensive swath of commercial real property.
• Secured dismissal and appellate order affirming dismissal of action against art advisor seeking damages for various purported breaches in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.

REPORTED DECISIONS

• Fayad v. University of Miami, No. 3d19-1008, 2020 WL 4197370 (Fla. 3d DCA Jul. 22, 2020)
• City of Miami Beach v. 3098 Alton Road, LLC, No. 3D19-982, 2020 WL 3980745 (Fla. 3d DCA Jul. 15, 2020)
• Strahlberg v. Covino, No. SC19-1940, 2020 WL 704974 (Fla. Feb. 11, 2020)
• Kipu Systems, LLC v. ZenCharts, LLC, No. 17-24733-WILLIAMS, 2019 WL 7271879 (S.D. Fla. Oct. 16, 2019)
• Inter American Coal, S.A. v. SHE DDF2-FL2, LLC, No. SC18-1904, 2019 WL 3216853 (Fla. Jul. 17, 2019)
• Strahlbeg v. Covino, 283 So. 3d 376 (Fla. 3d DCA 2019)
• Inter American Coal, S.A. v. SHE DDF2-FL2, LLC, 255 So. 3d 432 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018)
• Mager v. ECC, P.L., 222 So. 3d 1220 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017)
• Saul v. Cahan, 153 A.D.3d 947 (N.Y. App. Ct. 2017)
• Holdings v. RREF RB SBI. II-FL BHL, LLC, 160 So. 3d 439 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015)
• Saul v. Cahan, 45 Misc.3d 1214 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2014)

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

• Collier County Bar Association
• BNI International
• Fordham Law Alumni Association
• Florida Bar Business Law Section

EDUCATION

• J.D., Fordham University School of Law
• B.A., cum laude, University of Miami

ADMITTED TO

• Florida Bar
• New York Bar

PRIOR AFFILIATIONS

• Ehrenstein Charbonneau Calderin
• Concepción Martinez & Bellido
• United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
• Mintz & Fraade, P.C.
• Lincoln Square Legal Services, Inc.
• New York State Assembly – 73rd Assembly District