Florida, USA
Bankruptcy & Restructuring Law Firm of the Year
+1 305 350 2403 Scott L. Baena
Senior Partner Bilzin Sumberg
sbaena@bilzin.com
NORTH AMERICA
www.bilzin.com
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ilzen Sumberg are a Miami-based commercial law firm with a wealth of legal talent and a deep understanding of the mechanics of corporate law. Clients of Bilzin are provided with superb counsel who are able to deliver results based on long experience and a keen knowledge of the complex subtleties of a variety of corporate and financial legal areas. No surprise that the firm have developed a highcalibre client base. The impressive client list developed by Bilzen ranges from high-profile individual investors and entrepreneurs to some the leading private and public companies in the USA. The industries represented by Bilzin cover financial services, healthcare, transport, media, real estate, manufacturing and hospitality, to name but a few. A great many of these relationships have been build up over many years and decades and these special relationships and shared histories illustrate how effective Bilzin have been in over a sustained period in looking after the legal business needs of their clients. Bilzin’s reputation for its work in Bankruptcy and Restructuring is wellknown in Miami and beyond and this can be attributed to a large degree to the work of senior partner Scott L Baena and Scott is the firm’s chair of Bankruptcy and Restructuring group. This arm of the firm specialise in creditor’s rights, workouts, bankruptcy and commercial loan transactions. Scott himself is a well-respected bankruptcy and insolvency trial lawyer.
“Bilzen Sumberg are a Miami-based commercial law firm with a wealth of legal talent and a deep understanding of the mechanics of corporate law. Clients of Bilzin are provided with superb counsel who are able to deliver results based on long experience and a keen knowledge of the complex subtleties of a variety of corporate and financial legal areas.”
Atlas Air, TradeWinds Airlines, Eastern Airlines, Pan Am, Air Florida, Braniff II and Rich International Airways.
Scott regularly lectures on subjects related to bankruptcy law as well as authoring as an expert in a variety of publications. He has served as a Commissioner on the Uniform Law Commission and has been an active participant in the formulation of a number of state laws. In addition, Scott has headed up a number of high-profile cases including Fontaine- he has received Chambers USA’s highest ranking in Restructuring and bleau Las Vegas, LLC, W. R. Grace, Tousa, US Gypsum, Celotex, Hei- Bankruptcy ever since the publications inaugural year in Florida. He has lig-Meyers, ContiFinancial, Crown Vantage, USA Floral, NAL Finance been listed in The Best Lawyers in America consistently for 25 years and Group, Southeast Banking Corp., Land Resources, Beverage Canners, is the only Florida lawyer included in K&A Restructuring Register as one Jumbo Sports, Cenvill Development, National Merchandise (Pic ‘N Save), of ‘America’s top 100 restructuring professionals’ for seven consecutive Empire Toy, Hillsborough Holdings, Lillie Rubin, Zimmer Corporation, years.
80 ¦ Global Awards 2013 ¦ Corporate LiveWire