Miami

Weil’s Miami lawyers practice under four 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.

Our Miami Restructuring lawyers represent a wide range of constituents, including debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, sponsors, lenders, bondholders, acquirors and other key stakeholders in domestic and cross border corporate restructurings, both in-court in the context of chapter 11, chapter 15, receivership, international insolvency, and other proceedings, as well as out-of-court, liability management transactions, distressed financings, and distressed M&A transactions across a wide-range of industries.

• Miami office Co-Managing Partner Devon Bodoh is widely recognized by industry publications and directories as a leading lawyer. 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 from 2023 to 2025. He was also recognized as a Tax Law Trailblazer by the National Law Journal in 2023.
  
  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.” 

• Miami office Co-Managing Partner David J. Cohen was named among the Daily Business Review’s attorneys “On the Rise” for 2025. He was previously named to the Lawdragon 500 X - The Next Generation list and as an “Emerging Leader” by The M&A Advisor in 2024. In 2023, David was recognized as an “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyers” by Turnarounds & Workouts. 

• 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 partner 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.

• 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.