Business Entities & Banking

We Guide Florida Clients Through All Stages Of The Business Life Cycle

Our commercial practice consists of advising and counseling the business community to achieve their goals with the advantages of seamless legal protections and compliance in all general business law and commercial and financial matters. Our goal is to anticipate clients’ needs and offer advice on legal matters that bring added value to the business entity. We are particularly adept at implementing proactive legal protections that yield benefits long into the future by avoiding ambiguity and disputes and pre-addressing future uncertainties. Examples of our attorneys’ experience includes acting as general counsel for such diverse  interests as family home offices, golf course aggregators and telecommunications companies, and providing representation to multi-state restaurant chains, startup manufacturing companies, private jet charter and maintenance companies, newspaper chains, real estate brokerage and property management companies, general contractors and trade companies, emergency room staffing companies, national software companies and a variety of both large and small privately held businesses, physician groups and other professional.  We also provide representation for businesses acquisitions and buyouts, including international acquisitions.

Attorneys Philippe C. Jeck, Jeffrey S. Raynor, Richard D. Percic, Jeremy D. Bowerman, Edward A. Proenza, David Glickman, and Alexandra England assist clients in business and entity practice areas, including:

• Business formations
• Professional associations
• Transactions
• Corporations
• Partnerships
• Limited partnerships

Achieving Results With Focused Planning And Diligent Preparation

Our firm’s litigation practice is primarily commercial and involves trial and appellate work as well as arbitration and mediation. We are experienced in all stages of litigation, including appellate work as well as arbitration and mediation. The practice includes contract litigation from both sides, restrictive covenant enforcement and defense, evictions, lender workouts and foreclosures, foreclosure defense, association collection, enforcement and governance disputes, commercial arbitration and other commercial cases.

Examples include representing a telecommunications software developer in trade secret litigation, a lender in a multi-million-dollar shopping center foreclosure and ensuing deficiency judgment proceedings, a British corporation’s interests in foreclosure and tax deed litigation and parties in complex commercial and real estate related disputes.

Attorney Geoffrey L. Jones, David Markarian, David Glickman, Juanita Solis, and Alexandra England assist clients in business and entity litigation practice areas, including:

• Commercial
• Collections
• Commission disputes
• Insurance
• Contracts
• Insurance defense
• Premises liability

Assisting Lenders, Creditors, Consumers And Commercial Clients Throughout Florida

Our financial services practice consists of representing local, national and foreign banks in mortgage and asset-based lending and equipment leasing companies in construction loans, equipment leasing transactions, purchase money mortgage lending and refinancing. We also represent lenders in loan workout situations, asset recovery, and foreclosure actions against both real and personal property. Examples include representing private lenders in asset based multi-national lending; an equipment leasing company in a multi-million-dollar construction loan and leasing sophisticated medical equipment, a foreign bank in a multi-million-dollar development loan for a barrier island residential development project and national and local banks in commercial and residential mortgage lending. Our borrowing clients include income producing property investors and developers.

Attorneys Philippe C. Jeck, Jeffrey S. Raynor, Richard D. Percic, Jeremy D. Bowerman, and Edward A. Proenza assist clients in banking practice areas, including:

• Banking law
• Mortgage law
• Negotiable instrument
• Secured transactions
• Securities
• Real estate
• Workouts
• Credit
• Loans
• Letters of Credit
• Enforcement of and defending rights

Enforcing Obligations And Defending Rights

Our litigation practice involves primarily commercial disputes. We handle all stages of litigation in federal and state courts, including appellate work as well as arbitration and mediation. The practice includes contract breaches, lender workouts and foreclosures, foreclosure defense, governance disputes, commercial arbitration and other commercial cases.

Examples of our experience include business and real estate contract breaches, a multi-million-dollar shopping center foreclosure and ensuing deficiency judgment proceedings, brokers and misrepresentations, British corporation’s interests in foreclosure and tax deed litigation, private and institutional lenders and borrowers in foreclosure actions, and complex commercial litigation matters

Attorneys Geoffrey L. Jones, David Markarian, David Glickman, Juanita Solis, and Alexandra England assist clients in banking related litigation matters, including:

• Commercial
• Deficiency proceedings
• Contracts
• Foreclosure
• Insurance
• Promissory note/commercial paper collections