Strategic Business Counsel for Companies, Owners, and Entrepreneurs Across Miami and South Florida
Small businesses in Miami often make important decisions involving ownership, contracts, financing, regulatory obligations, and commercial relationships. Saltiel Law Group works with business owners and companies that need practical legal guidance aligned with their operational and long-term objectives.
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Coral Gables, our bilingual firm advises businesses across Miami-Dade and South Florida, including companies and investors with connections to Latin America and Spain. Our attorneys assist with business formation, governance, commercial agreements, transactions, tax coordination, and commercial disputes.
Schedule a consultation with a Miami small business lawyer to assess your company's legal needs and next steps.
Legal counsel can support a business before, during, and after significant decisions. Early guidance may help owners identify legal issues, document responsibilities, and evaluate risk before a problem becomes more difficult to address. Here is where our skilled team of small business attorneys in Miami most frequently makes a difference.
Registering an entity with the Florida Department of State Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) is only one part of establishing a business. Owners must also evaluate the appropriate legal entity, tax classification, ownership structure, governance framework, liability considerations, financing plans, and long-term objectives.
Our attorneys help clients evaluate structures such as limited liability companies, corporations, and partnerships, while coordinating with tax advisers when an S corporation election or other tax treatment is being considered.
We handle the drafting of documents that may include:
For a multi-member Florida LLC, a written operating agreement can define ownership, management authority, voting rights, distributions, transfer restrictions, and procedures for resolving disputes or handling a member's departure.
Commercial relationships may create contractual obligations, financial exposure, and operational risk. Carefully drafted agreements can help define responsibilities, payment terms, performance standards, confidentiality obligations, remedies, and procedures for resolving disputes.
Our contract attorneys in Miami advise businesses on:
We draft agreements designed to clearly document the parties' obligations, allocate risk, and support the business objectives of the transaction.
Your brand, creative work, and business processes are often among your most valuable assets. Our intellectual property attorneys help small businesses protect those assets through:
In Miami's competitive market, where new businesses launch daily, protecting your brand early matters more than most founders anticipate.
Businesses may be subject to requirements from the Florida Department of Revenue, Miami-Dade County, and other state, county, municipal, and industry-specific agencies, depending on their activities and location. Saltiel Law Group helps clients identify legal and corporate compliance issues relevant to their business, coordinate required filings, maintain entity records, and work with tax or regulatory professionals when additional guidance is needed.
Commercial disputes can disrupt operations, strain business relationships, and create significant financial exposure. Our commercial litigation attorneys represent businesses in:
We evaluate the governing agreements, available remedies, procedural options, business objectives, and the practical consequences of negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation.
Buying or selling a business requires legal and financial planning before the parties reach closing. Our mergers and acquisitions attorneys advise buyers, sellers, and investors on letters of intent, due diligence, transaction structure, purchase agreements, representations and warranties, closing conditions, transition arrangements, and post-closing obligations.
We help clients evaluate asset purchases, stock or membership-interest purchases, and other transaction structures in coordination with tax and financial advisers.
Whether you are acquiring a competitor, purchasing a closely held business, bringing in a new investor, or preparing for an exit, the structure and documentation of the transaction can affect ownership, liability, taxes, control, and post-closing obligations.
Miami's business environment is shaped by cross-border investment, multilingual commercial relationships, a high concentration of closely held companies, and frequent connections to Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe. These factors can affect ownership structures, contracts, tax planning, dispute resolution, and the movement of capital or assets across jurisdictions.
Miami businesses frequently work with owners, investors, vendors, and customers across Latin America and Europe. Cross-border matters may involve multiple legal systems, languages, tax considerations, and dispute-resolution provisions. Saltiel Law Group's bilingual team advises clients on the U.S. legal aspects of these matters and, when appropriate, coordinates with trusted counsel in other jurisdictions, including through the firm's international alliances.
Businesses in hospitality, real estate, construction, technology, retail, and other sectors often rely on leases, vendor agreements, service contracts, licensing arrangements, and customer terms. We help clients evaluate provisions involving payment, performance, termination, indemnification, confidentiality, liability, and dispute resolution.
We are Coral Gables-based and have strategic alliances across Spain and Latin America. For Miami businesses operating across borders, we offer legal coverage that matches how your business works, not just where it is registered.
Our bilingual team communicates in plain language, not legal jargon. Recognized in the Chambers and Partners "USA: Spotlight 2025–2026" guide, we bring credibility and clarity in equal measure.
From formation and contracts to tax matters and commercial disputes, you benefit from attorneys who know the whole picture, not just one corner of your business.
Saltiel Law Group serves businesses throughout Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, including Miami, Coral Gables, Doral, Kendall, Brickell, and Wynwood. The firm also advises international companies, investors, and business owners on U.S. and Florida legal matters connected to their operations or investments in the United States.
Small business attorneys may advise companies across a range of industries, depending on the firm's practice. Saltiel Law Group works with privately held businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and family enterprises on matters involving entity formation, governance, commercial contracts, intellectual property protection, acquisitions and sales, tax coordination, cross-border transactions, and commercial disputes.
Legal fees depend on the scope, complexity, urgency, and fee arrangement for the matter. Some defined projects may be handled for a flat fee, other matters may be billed hourly, and select cases may be handled on a contingency basis. The applicable fees and billing terms are explained before the engagement begins.
The appropriate structure depends on ownership, management, liability, tax treatment, capital-raising plans, governance needs, and long-term objectives. An LLC may offer flexible governance, while a corporation may be appropriate for businesses planning to issue different classes of equity or seek outside investment. Tax classification is a separate consideration that should be evaluated with legal and tax advisers.
Florida generally does not require an LLC to file an operating agreement with the state. However, a written agreement is particularly important for a multi-member LLC because it can address ownership, management authority, voting, distributions, transfers, deadlock, and member exits. Without a written agreement, statutory default rules may apply in ways the owners did not anticipate.
Review the agreement and seek legal advice promptly. The contract may contain notice requirements, cure periods, dispute-resolution clauses, limitations on remedies, or deadlines that affect the available options. Depending on the circumstances, the next step may involve negotiation, a formal notice or demand, mediation, arbitration, litigation, or emergency relief.
Requirements vary by the business, location, ownership, and industry. Common steps may include selecting and registering an entity, obtaining an employer identification number, preparing governance documents, registering for applicable state and local taxes, obtaining licenses or permits, and satisfying employment or industry-specific requirements when applicable. Legal and tax advice should be tailored to the proposed business activities.
Yes. A business attorney can review and negotiate provisions involving rent increases, operating expenses, permitted use, assignment, guarantees, maintenance obligations, insurance, default remedies, renewal options, and termination rights. Reviewing these terms before execution can help the business understand its obligations and identify provisions that may warrant negotiation.
A business should review its governing documents when ownership changes, new investors are admitted, management authority shifts, financing is obtained, equity is issued, a major transaction is planned, or the company's operations materially expand. Periodic review can also help confirm that corporate records and agreements remain consistent with how the business actually operates.
Saltiel Law Group advises international companies, investors, and business owners on U.S. and Florida legal matters related to forming, acquiring, operating, or investing in a business. Cross-border matters may require coordinated advice involving corporate structure, tax, immigration, banking, and the laws of other jurisdictions. The firm can address U.S. legal requirements and coordinate with other qualified advisers as needed.
