Beware when doing business in Latin America. Thanks to growing Chinese and Middle Eastern investment there, fraud and bribery are growing as well. Business practices considered unethical, fraudulent and illegal in the United States, such as bribery and financial “favors,” are largely tolerated and thriving in the developing regions of the Western Hemisphere, with little [...]
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Michael Diaz Jr.
Global Managing Partner of Diaz Reus & Targ, a law firm covering the U.S., Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, Michael Diaz Jr. is a noted litigator focused on helping corporate and individual victims of international financial fraud recoup assets—Ponzi schemes (including Madoff and Standford), pyramid schemes, money laundering, and RICO litigation. He represents multinational corporations, multinational financial institutions, foreign governments, foreign officials, and high-profile individuals in sensitive regulatory, civil and international criminal matters. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS).
Brant C. Hadaway
Seasoned bilingual (English/Czech) attorney focusing his practice on international commercial disputes on behalf of foreign and domestic clients in the U.S. and abroad. Played key role in 2008 multimillion-dollar media-rights dispute win for Honduran Soccer Federation (Federacion Nacional Autonoma de Futbol de Honduras), earning his Diaz Reus team a Daily Business Review nomination for Most Effective Lawyers in International Law and likely giving other Latin American soccer leagues more leeway in breaking monopolistic control over media rights. Admitted to practice in Florida, Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, United States Supreme Court, and Supreme Court of England and Wales. Also skilled in arbitration, deceptive trade practices and consumer fraud litigation, insurance coverage, employment law, international law, maritime law.
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