CORAL GABLES, Fla. — A team of highly experienced Coral Gables-based attorneys played an important role in securing a $521 million verdict for Portugal’s Espirito Santo Bank against accounting firm BDO Seidman for negligent financial audits performed over several years at E.S. Bankest, a Miami factoring company. Those audits were blamed for facilitating one of...Read More
BY ELINOR J. BRECHER ebrecher@MiamiHerald.com A Circuit Court jury in Miami decided on Monday that the accounting firm BDO Seidman should pay the late philanthropist/aviation pioneer George Batchelor’s estate and foundation $91 million for “fraudulently” concealing false information about a company in which Batchelor had invested. The award consists of $55 million in punitive and...Read More
MIAMI (April 7, 2014) – Prominent South Florida attorneys Gonzalo R. Dorta and Matias R. Dorta announced today the formation of Dorta Law, a boutique Coral Gables-based trial law firm. The minority-owned firm will provide trial practice services with an additional focus on commercial litigation and arbitration. Led by the Dorta brothers, who collectively bring...Read More
MIAMI – A powerful financier from the Dominican Republic has been found liable in an illegal money transfer case, handing a victory to authorities trying to recoup millions of dollars lost in the 2003 collapse of that country’s third-largest bank. The jury found Luis Alvarez Renta liable Monday on three counts of racketeering and one...Read More
BOCA RATON, Fla. — It seemed too good to be true. When American multimillionaire Wilson C. Lucom died in 2006, he left the bulk of his fortune to a new foundation dedicated to feeding Panama’s poor children — not to his politically-connected Panamanian widow, nor to her children. It would be one of the largest...Read More
