MM&H successfully represented two Florida entities who own valuable real estate property in Miami. Plaintiffs are Argentinean lawyers who provided certain limited services to the manager of the Defendants. Plaintiffs initiated an ex parte secret legal action in Argentina against Defendants and others supposedly premised upon their entitlement to purported professional fees relating to the [...]
After a multi-year contentious battle in what was billed as a bet the company misappropriation of trade secret, breach of restrictive covenants of key employees and tortious interference claim by a competitor, MM&H obtained a dismissal with prejudice on the even of an evidentiary hearing where it was anticipated that the Plaintiff's pleadings would be [...]
MM&H was retained by one of Miami’s leading restauranteurs to lead a cross-border effort to recover a substantial Panamanian trust being mismanaged by an interested fiduciary. MM&H have coordinated with Panamanian counsel in a two-pronged approach to ensure the proper, intended distribution of the multi-million-dollar trust took place. First, MM&H laid the foundation for filing [...]
MM&H has been retained as counsel for a group of high net worth individuals to intervene in a highly contentious dispute between developers of a high-end condominium building on South Beach to force turnover and to allow the homeowners’ association to take control and bring appropriate claims against the developers for dissipation of assets and [...]
After a multi-year representation involving two parallel proceedings, MM&H settled a first of its kind federal class action lawsuit against Los Angeles-based Herbalife International of America, Inc. as well as top distributors and current and former members of the company's board of directors. The claims involved several counts brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt [...]
Plaintiff brought claims against Humberto Visconte, his wife and their wholly owned entity, Markethings, LLC. arising out of allegations that Mr. Visconte, while acting as CEO of the Brazilian subsidiary, usurped a corporate opportunity for his own benefit, took kickbacks and performed other wrongdoing related to the Brazilian entity’s purchase of a large tract of [...]
MM&H found itself in the center of a high-profile cross-border dispute brought by David Boies and the law firm of Boies Schiller on behalf of a US Trust that was supposedly assigned the interests of PDVSA, the Venezuelan government-owned oil company, in an alleged multi-billion kickback scheme. After a two-day evidentiary hearing, the PDVSA Trust [...]
MM&H were retained to retrieve valuable watches that were stolen and sold to claimed BFP's. A well-established watch dealer was conned into giving high end merchandise to agents of imprisoned con man on representations that they would be prominently used in a new music video of Jay-Zee and Beyoncé. Watches worth several hundred dollars were [...]
Meridian Trust Company and American Associated Group, Ltd., v. Eike Batista, EFG Capital International Corp., Paulo Gouvea et. al., Case No. 17-cv-23051-KMW, pending in the Southern District of Florida, is a massive fraud claim in which Plaintiffs, trust companies from the island of Nevis and the Cayman Islands, are seeking treble damages for investment losses [...]
On February 28, 2018, the Third District Court of Appeals in a unanimous decision affirmed the decision of the trial court in favour of our clients, majority members and officers in a highly contentious shareholder rights claim brought by terminated management who also had minority membership interests in the global medical devices manufacturer. This ended [...]