Miami

Weil’s Miami lawyers practice under three main department-level headings: Corporate, Litigation, Restructuring and Tax. Our corporate lawyers have extensive experience advising and representing financial institutions, investment banks and other institutional clients in all areas of corporate and real estate finance, syndication, and loan restructuring, including construction, asset-based, mezzanine, bond and bridge equity financing. The practice includes counseling clients in connection with the acquisition, development and disposition of mixed-use condominium, multi-family, office, hospitality, industrial and retail properties throughout the United States and abroad. We also have established a national reputation in the field of public finance, with a broad range of experience in the issuance and sale of municipal bonds, and the financing and restructuring of projects financed with municipal debt.

Our Miami Litigation lawyers represent clients on a wide range of issues, including alleged fraud and unfair practices class actions, product liability, antitrust, securities, real estate, intellectual property, corporate and general business transactions. We litigate cases in federal and state courts across the country, including handling cases before arbitration tribunals in numerous jurisdictions. We also conduct internal investigations for clients and counsel them on litigation avoidance and crisis management.

• Miami office Managing Partner Devon Bodoh is widely recognized by industry publications and directories as a leading lawyer, including having been named a 2023 “Tax Law Trailblazer” by the National Law Journal. In 2024, he was recognized as a “Highly Regarded” lawyer for Transactional Tax in the U.S., as a “Tax Leading Advisor” in D.C. by International Tax Review’s World Tax and was named among Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” list.
  
  
• Previously, Devon was recognized as a “Best Lawyer” for Tax Law in Washington, D.C. by Best Lawyers in America, and was included among the 2021 “Top Tax Lawyers in North America” by MergerLinks. Devon has also been recommended for Tax: Financial Products, US Taxes: Non-Contentious and International Tax by Legal 500 US and recognized as an expert in Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Corporate Tax and as a “Bankruptcy Tax Specialist” by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine. He is ranked as a leading lawyer for Tax in the District of Columbia by Chambers USA, where clients describe him as “a brilliant transactional lawyer and a great international tax planner” who “is a commercial force in the transactional tax community; an innovative thought leader with a vast network of relationships.” 

• Real Estate partner Pejman Razavilar was recommended for Real Estate by Legal 500 US in 2024 and has been recognized as a “Notable Practitioner” for Real Estate in the U.S. by IFLR1000 2024. Additionally, he was named to Lawdragon’s 2024 list of the “500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers,” was recognized for Real Estate in New York by Super Lawyers for the last four years, and was selected by Connect CRE for their “Lawyers in Real Estate” award in 2022. 

• Real Estate partner Nellie Camerik was recommended for Real Estate by Legal 500 US and was named to Lawdragon’s 2024 list of the “500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers”.

• Complex Commercial Litigation and Appeals and Strategic Counseling counsel Brian Liegel was recognized in the “On the Rise” category at the 2024 Florida Legal Awards.

• Complex Commercial Litigation partner Pravin Patel was named a 2024 “Rising Star” by Law360 and the South Asian Bar Association of North America, and earned a spot on Benchmark Litigation’s “40 & Under List” and Lawdragon 500’s “X – The Next Generation” list. He was also again recognized by Chambers USA and Legal 500 as a leading lawyer for General Commercial Litigation and a recommended lawyer for General Commercial Disputes and Product Liability.

• Restructuring partner David J. Cohen was named to the Lawdragon 500 X - The Next Generation list and as an “Emerging Leader” by The M&A Advisor in 2024. He was also named an “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers” for 2023 by Turnarounds & Workouts. 

• The Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms consistently ranks Weil as one of the best law firms in Miami. Most recently, Weil was named among the Best Law Firms to Work for in Florida on the Vault Law 100 2024 ranking.

• Weil’s Miami office was recognized as a leading firm in Florida in the Litigation and General Commercial categories, and was named among The Elite by Chambers USA in 2023, for the third consecutive year.

• Weil’s Florida Litigation teams continue to be recognized by Benchmark Litigation.