While Miami got its start as a resort destination, the city’s economy has expanded and diversified extensively over the past 25 years. Today, Miami is an international financial and cultural center, providing a vital gateway between the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Many multinational corporations have based their Latin American operations in Miami and the city is home to the country’s largest concentration of international banks. And Miami continues to develop -- this bilingual metropolis is experiencing rapid population growth.

Greenberg Traurig has strong roots here. Lawyers who brought an entrepreneurial, business-focused style of practice to South Florida founded our firm in Miami. GT’s Miami office advises local, national and international companies in numerous industries and sectors, including aviation, entertainment, financial institutions, health care, international trade and customs, manufacturing, real estate, retail and technology.

Our legal team in Miami represents virtually all of the firm’s core practices. Our corporate and securities lawyers advise companies on an array of transactions, from general corporate matters to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and antitrust and trade regulation. We work closely with our colleagues in the Business Reorganization & Bankruptcy Practice, which represents debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, official committees, trustees and purchasers of troubled companies and their assets, both in and out of bankruptcy court.

The Miami Litigation Department is an integral part of the firm’s national practice. Our team members have represented clients in scores of commercial cases in jury and non-jury trials involving billions of dollars in controversy and are frequently retained by the most prominent national and international companies to represent them in their most complex and important disputes.

The Miami-based members of the firm’s Global Practice Group have experience in cross-border corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures, with practices ranging from privatizations to cross-border projects and structured finance transactions. Our Real Estate Department’s work is similarly wide-ranging. We work with clients in nearly every area of the industry, including the finance and development of multi-family housing, hotels, condominiums, resorts and real estate investment trusts – not only in South Florida, but throughout the United States, South America, the Caribbean and around the world.

Our Environmental and Land Development Practice Group handles virtually all facets of environmental and land use approvals and permitting for all types of projects, be they commercial, residential or mixed use. Our Business Immigration Practice is similarly broad-based, representing businesses, organizations and individuals from around the world on immigration matters and related issues.

GT’s Public Finance Department, established in Miami in the early 1980s, serves the complex needs of state and local issuers and underwriters with a broadly-based municipal finance practice that is national in scope. Our Aviation and Aircraft Finance Group, likewise based in Miami, advises clients on the purchase, sale, leasing and financing of commercial and corporate aircraft and equipment, as well as handling matters such as strategic alliances and other corporate matters.

Our Tax and Trust and Estates Department provides a broad array of tax and other services to our individual and corporate clients, domestic and offshore, including estate and income tax planning and advising employers and executives with regard to executive compensation and employee benefit matters. Members of the Miami office’s Labor and Employment Practice provide consulting services on a variety of issues, including representing management in matters involving opposition to union organizational efforts and collective bargaining negotiations and arbitration.

GT’s firm culture is built on a strong tradition of service. Our Miami attorneys include a former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, as well as two former U.S. ambassadors. We also hold leadership positions or are otherwise actively involved in community and service organizations such as Miami Dade College, the University of Miami, United Way of Miami-Dade, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, among others.