Profile
Angelika Hunnefeld has wide-ranging experience in international business arbitration and commercial litigation, helping clients in a wide range of industries with cross-border disputes, with a special focus on Latin America. Angelika, who is Board Certified as a Specialist in International Law by The Florida Bar and an active member of the Council of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, routinely handles substantive and procedural matters before the ICC, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission, among other arbitral tribunals. Angelika is particularly experienced in international arbitration and litigation matters involving multi-jurisdictional issues, including enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. Angelika spends a significant amount of her time on matters related to Brazil and other countries in Latin America. She routinely represents, in coordination with Brazilian counsel, Brazilian clients with legal issues abroad and international clients on business matters related to Brazil. Angelika has throughout her career mentored and worked with members of Greenberg Traurig’s International Associate Program, which for more than 30 years has hosted talented lawyers from Brazil and other countries in Latin America to work at the firm before returning to their home countries.
Concentrations
- International Commercial Litigation
- International Arbitration
- Cross-Border Contract Disputes
- Pre-Litigation and Pre-Arbitration Advice
- Anti-Corruption Compliance
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented the Government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago in actions seeking enforcement, and defending against enforcement, of international arbitration award rendered by the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce.
- Served as litigation counsel in matters involving the enforcement and vacatur of international and domestic arbitration awards under the New York Convention, the Federal Arbitration Act and the Florida International Commercial Arbitration Act
- Served as litigation counsel in disputes involving foreign citizens and matters of foreign law, requiring expert consultation and presentation of legal issues governed by foreign law.
- Served as litigation counsel in matters involving discovery requests in the U.S. made in connection with foreign proceedings pending in foreign jurisdictions.
- Monitored litigation in foreign jurisdictions for U.S. clients and served as liaison with foreign counsel.
- Assisted major retail client in the implementation of FCPA compliance program in several Latin American countries.
- Assisted multiple clients with anti-corruption compliance risk assessments and the implementation of FCPA compliance programs in several Latin American countries.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, Thomson Reuters, "Stand-Out Lawyers," 2022-2024
- Listed, Latin Lawyer, "Latin Lawyer 250 - Practice Recognition: Arbitration," 2020-2022 and 2024-2025
- Chair, International Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association, International Law Section
- Member, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Committee to Oversee Events Commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month, 2023
- Committee Board Member, The Florida Bar International Law Board Certification Committee
- Chair, 2019-2020
- Vice-Chair, 2018-2019
- International Chamber of Commerce Institute of World Business Law
- Council Member
- Member, Compliance Task Force
- Advisory Board Member, The Women’s Edge, 2023-Present
- Member, International Bar Association
- Member, ArbitralWomen
- Fellow and Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)
- Member, Scottish Arbitration Centre
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL)
- Former Member, Board of Trustees, Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science
- Former Co-Chair, The Florida Bar, International Law Section, Women in International Law Committee
- Former Director, American Nicaraguan Foundation
- Former Director, Nicaraguan American Bar Association, Inc.
Credentials
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J.D., magna cum laude, University of Miami School of Law
- Order of the Coif
- Dean's List All Semesters
- Executive Editor, Inter-American Law Review
- B.A., summa cum laude, Florida International University
- Florida
- Nevada
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Spanish, Fluent
- French, Conversational
- Portuguese, Conversational