Meticulous Representation for Civil Lawsuits and Commercial Disputes
When a business dispute or civil lawsuit threatens your operations, assets, or reputation, the quality of your legal counsel could decide the outcome of the case.
The Miami commercial litigation lawyers at Saltiel Law Group represent companies, executives, and high-net-worth individuals in state and federal courts, with a particular focus on matters involving international parties, cross-border contracts, and Latin American business interests.
Based in Coral Gables, we serve clients throughout Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. Our civil litigation attorneys in Miami combine an established record of courtroom success with the transactional fluency that complex commercial disputes demand. Our approach ensures that our trial strategies reflect how businesses actually run.
Our capable team provides big-firm advocacy with a boutique structure, with direct access to senior attorneys, a transparent fee structure, and bilingual representation in English and Spanish.
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Civil and commercial disputes rarely fit a single template. Our Miami commercial litigation lawyer team handles a broad range of matters across Florida’s circuit courts, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and in arbitration before major institutional forums.
Contract disputes are at the center of most commercial litigation. We represent businesses on both sides of breach claims involving supply agreements, service contracts, distribution arrangements, joint ventures, and international commercial agreements.
Clients who originally worked with our Miami contract lawyers on drafting and negotiation have a clear path when enforcement becomes necessary, with continuity that shortens the learning curve and sharpens strategy.
Tortious interference, fraud, civil conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair trade practice claims under Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA) call for counsel that understands both the legal theory and the commercial harm at stake.
Our civil litigation attorneys in Miami routinely pursue and defend these claims for closely held companies, family businesses, and multinational enterprises.
Internal business conflicts often prompt the most damaging litigation because the parties remain economically tied to each other while the case proceeds.
We skillfully handle derivative actions, oppression claims by minority shareholders, partnership dissolutions, LLC member disputes, and forced buyouts under Florida law. Where appropriate, our Miami small business lawyer team can help resolve disputes through governance changes rather than prolonged courtroom battles.
Disputes over leases, purchase agreements, title defects, easements, construction defects, and lender enforcement frequently lead to litigation. Our Miami commercial real estate lawyers advise clients on transactions with the possibility of a trial in mind, and our litigators step in when negotiations break down.
Miami's role as a commercial gateway to Latin America means many legal issues involve foreign parties, multi-jurisdictional contracts, and enforcement questions that span borders.
Our bilingual team conducts depositions, drafts pleadings, and argues motions in both English and Spanish for clients from Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Spain, and other Central and South American countries, with full cultural and legal fluency rather than translations.
Civil fraud claims, securities-related civil actions, and disputes involving investment losses or financial mismanagement require careful attention to evidentiary detail and forensic accounting. We approach these matters in coordination with forensic accountants and other outside professionals.
Not every dispute belongs in front of a jury. Our civil litigation attorneys in Miami frequently represent clients in commercial arbitration before the AAA, ICC, ICDR, and JAMS, as well as in mediation and judicially supervised settlement conferences.
We advise clients candidly when alternative dispute resolution promises a faster, more confidential, or more cost-controlled path to resolution.
Saltiel Law Group represents clients across the diverse sectors that drive South Florida's economy, with particular depth of knowledge in matters involving international and Latin American business interests.
Miami's position as a major trade hub sometimes generates disputes involving supply chain failures, distribution agreement breaches, customs and regulatory issues, and international payment mechanisms. We represent import/export companies, freight forwarders, and global distributors to resolve these issues in both U.S. and arbitral forums.
Developers, investors, contractors, and property owners may face commercial disputes ranging from construction defect claims to title and easement disagreements. Our civil and commercial litigation lawyers possess extensive knowledge of Florida real estate law, plus the added layer of complexity when foreign capital is involved.
Banks, investment advisors, family offices, and institutional investors operating in Miami's financial sector can be vulnerable to civil claims involving fiduciary duties, account mishandling, and regulatory compliance. Our team has handled much complicated federal civil litigation in this space, including matters that produced favorable appellate outcomes after adverse rulings.
Technology companies may pursue and defend civil litigation over trade secret misappropriation, licensing breaches, software disputes, and cross-border IP enforcement. Our Miami intellectual property attorneys excel at providing the doctrinal grounding that these matters require.
Many of our clients are family-run companies or Latin American businesses with significant U.S. operations. Internal disputes, partner conflicts, and adverse rulings in U.S. courts often raise both legal and cultural questions, and our bilingual team is here to answer both.
In Florida, civil and commercial litigation follows a structured path, but timelines, costs, and strategic choices can vary considerably based on the forum, the specific claims, and the parties involved. Understanding the stages of the general process can help you make better decisions about settlement, discovery, and trial.
Before a lawsuit is filed, careful pre-suit work often determines the trajectory of the case. Our team can investigate the facts, preserve evidence, evaluate losses, and, where appropriate, send a formal demand, which could resolve the dispute without litigation.
Florida law also imposes specific pre-suit notice requirements in certain categories of claims, and overlooking those steps can prove fatal to a case.
Discovery is where most commercial cases are won or lost. We conduct depositions, draft and respond to interrogatories and document requests, manage e-discovery, and work with forensic and damages consultants to improve our clients’ prospects for success. We also coordinate Hague Convention requests and foreign discovery in cross-border matters.
Winning at trial isn’t always the end of the matter, especially when collection is uncertain. We handle judgment enforcement, garnishment, and asset recovery, and our appeals team steps in when an adverse ruling (or a favorable one that the other side challenges) goes to the Florida Third District Court of Appeal or the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Once a complaint is filed in a Florida circuit court or in federal court in the Southern District of Florida, the defendant must respond within a specified window. Early motions (including motions to dismiss, motions to compel arbitration, and challenges to personal jurisdiction in cross-border matters) at this stage can determine the trajectory of the entire case.
According to the Florida Office of the State Courts Administrator, the state's circuit courts handle hundreds of thousands of civil filings each year. Clear, well-pleaded papers meaningfully affect a case’s positioning from the beginning.
Where the facts allow, we pursue summary judgment to resolve cases without a full trial. When a trial is unavoidable, our lawyers spearhead civil and commercial jury and bench trials in both state and federal court, drawing on the full evidentiary record built during discovery.
Our skilled litigators handle disputes that arise from contracts, deals, and governance structures that our colleagues and we regularly draft and negotiate. That dual fluency means the legal arguments we make at trial are grounded in facts about how commercial relationships actually work.
Saltiel Law Group is featured in the Chambers and Partners "USA: Spotlight 2026" guide. Moisés Saltiel holds a 2025 Florida Rising Star recognition from Super Lawyers, and Hubert Menendez has secured notable trial verdicts, including a $2.6 million fraud verdict for a client.
Through our alliance with EJASO in Spain and Mexico, we coordinate multi-jurisdictional civil and commercial litigation strategies that protect client interests across legal systems, with consistent strategy from intake through enforcement.
Our firm is based in Coral Gables, which lies at the heart of Miami's international business community. We represent clients throughout South Florida, including Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, along with international clients from Latin America and Spain in matters contested in state and federal courts.
Civil litigation is a broad category that covers any non-criminal dispute between private parties, including personal injury, property, contract, and tort matters. Commercial litigation is a subset of civil litigation that focuses on disputes between businesses or arising from business activity, such as breach of contract, shareholder disputes, unfair competition, and commercial fraud.
Most matters our Miami commercial litigation lawyer team handles fall on the commercial side, though we regularly handle civil claims that have business consequences.
Civil matters that make it to Florida’s circuit courts typically take 12–24 months to resolve from filing through trial, though complex cases involving extensive discovery or cross-border issues can take longer. Federal cases in the Southern District of Florida often follow a similar timeline. We give clients realistic time estimates at the outset and revisit them as their cases develop.
Costs vary based on the complexity of the dispute, the volume of discovery, and whether the case goes to trial or settles. Our boutique structure allows us to operate leanly compared with large firms, and we offer flexible fee arrangements that fit the scope of each matter. We discuss budgets candidly before engagement to ensure that there are no surprises.
Yes. Many commercial disputes are resolved via negotiation, mediation, or arbitration, and Florida courts actively encourage alternative dispute resolution. Our civil litigation attorneys in Miami often achieve favorable outcomes through pre-suit demand letters, structured mediation, or institutional arbitration, which can be faster, more confidential, and less costly than a full trial.
Under Florida Statutes Section 95.11, claims based on a written contract generally must be filed within five years, while those based on an oral contract are subject to a shorter period. Other commercial claims have their own statutes of limitations, and certain pre-suit notice requirements may apply in some cases.
Waiting too long can foreclose an otherwise valid claim, which is why we focus on timing as part of every case assessment we conduct.
Yes. Our team oversees civil and commercial matters in Florida circuit courts (including the Miami-Dade Eleventh Judicial Circuit Complex Business Litigation Division), the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and, on appeal, the Florida Third District Court of Appeal and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Yes. A significant portion of our practice involves working with clients based outside the United States, particularly in Latin America and Spain. Our bilingual attorneys handle every stage of the proceedings in English or Spanish, and we coordinate with our alliance partners abroad on multi-jurisdictional strategy, service of process, and enforcement.
