Diaz Reus

Diaz Reus is an international law firm offering comprehensive legal services to U.S.-based and global clients, including multinational corporations, The Fortune 1000, foreign government entities, public officials, domestic and international banks and other financial institutions, entrepreneurs, and high-net-worth individuals.

Diaz Reus lawyers have experience in high-stakes international litigation and arbitration involving intellectual property rights, business and contractual disputes, trademark and copyright violations, financial fraud claims, asset-recovery, anti-money-laundering compliance, and criminal and civil RICO cases, as well as in regulatory and white-collar criminal defense. In addition, skilled, multilingual transactional lawyers at Diaz Reus can handle multinational and domestic corporate formation, licensing, tax, mergers and acquisitions, immigration, trust and estate, and family law matters worldwide.

International and U.S. Law Business Transactions

Finance and private equity

  • Asset and stock purchases
  • Shareholders’ agreements
  • Buy, sell, and cross purchases
  • Secured transactions
  • Project financing
  • Synthetic leasing
  • Letters of credit
  • Bonds issuance
  • IPOs
  • Private placements
  • PIPEs

Mergers and acquisitions

  • Reverse mergers
  • Securities registration
  • SEC filings
  • International stock exchanges

Corporate formation and maintenance

  • Business start-ups and earn outs
  • Domestication of foreign companies
  • Business entity formation and choice of jurisdiction
  • Franchises
  • Joint ventures, partnerships, LLCs, “C” and “S” corporations
  • Contracts, agreements and transactions
  • Proxy agreements
  • Rights of equity holders (members, partners, shareholders)
  • Lender’s rights
  • Protection of minority and/or dissenters rights

Intellectual property, trademark, copyrights

  • Technology transfers and licensing
    agreements

Real Estate; commercial, residential

  • Purchase, development and leasing
  • Loan and mortgage transactions
  • Lease-backs

Tax

  • Asset protection
  • Pre-immigration corporate and tax planning for foreign individuals
  • Inbound corporate or business structures
  • Corporate or business structures for companies operating outside the U.S.

Corporate bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, asset collections, liquidation proceedings

  • Corporate restructuring, reorganizations, and liquidations
  • Debtors’ rights
  • Creditors’ rights

Government relations

  • Foreign, federal, state, and local authorities

Business immigration

  • Permanent residence applications
  • Employer compliance defense and investigations
  • Removal defense
  • Labor conditions application compliance
  • Multinational workforce management

International and U.S. Law Litigation and Arbitration

Complex civil litigation

Complex commercial litigation

  • Copyright and trademark enforcement
  • Intellectual property disputes

Securities litigation

Appeals and trial support

  •   Pretrial, trial, and appellate

White-collar criminal defense

  • Money laundering
  • Asset forfeiture
  • Securities fraud
  • Ponzi schemes
  • Tax evasion

International fraud

  • OFAC, FCPA, RICO, SOX, money laundering
  • Asset recovery
  • Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act
  • Public corruption
  • Alien Tort Claim Act
  • Extraditions

Creditors’ rights and bankruptcy litigation

  • Enforcement of foreign judgments

Maritime and travel litigation

International and U.S. Law Investigations

Statutory or regulatory investigations and compliance

  • Corporate
  • Customs
  • Banking

Financial services

Bank secrecy laws

  • Money laundering compliance

Investor fraud

  • U.S. and cross-border Ponzi schemes
  • Government investigations
  • Foreign, federal, state, and local authorities

Internal corporate investigations

International and U.S. Law Personal Legal Services

Civil litigation

Family law

  • Complex divorce
  • Probate litigation

Estate planning and tax

  • Sophisticated domestic and international estate planning
  • Pre- and post-nuptial agreements
  • Charitable planning
  • Wills and trusts

Family immigration

  • Permanent residence applications
  • Residential real estate