Brant C. Hadaway

Partner

Seasoned bilingual (English/Czech) attorney focusing his practice on international commercial disputes on behalf of foreign and domestic clients in the U.S. and abroad.

Played key role in 2008 multimillion-dollar media-rights dispute win for Honduran Soccer Federation (Federacion Nacional Autonoma de Futbol de Honduras), earning his Diaz Reus team a Daily Business Review nomination for Most Effective Lawyers in International Law and likely giving other Latin American soccer leagues more leeway in breaking monopolistic control over media rights.

Admitted to practice in Florida, Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, United States Supreme Court, and Supreme Court of England and Wales. Also skilled in arbitration, deceptive trade practices and consumer fraud litigation, insurance coverage, employment law, international law, maritime law.

Formerly in motion picture and television industry. Holds degrees in criminology from Florida State University, motion picture production from University of Southern California, and Juris Doctor from the University of Miami. Previously associated with Mase & Lara, P.A., Miami.

His University of Miami Law Review article "Executive Privateers: A Discussion on Why the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Will Not Significantly Reform the Practice of Forfeiture" cited in numerous articles and seminars on forfeiture and money-laundering.

Noteworthy:

• Formerly worked in film and television in Los Angeles and Europe.
• Cited for excellence in oral advocacy while at University of Miami School of Law: won a national Burton Award for Legal Achievement (http://www.burtonawards.com/).

Publications:

• "Executive Privateers: A Discussion on Why the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act Will Not Significantly Reform the Practice of Forfeiture," 55 U. Miami L. Rev. 81 (2000), available online at http://www.fear.org/hadaway.html, a paper cited in numerous articles and seminars on forfeiture and money-laundering.

Awards & Recognition:

• Selected Florida Rising Stars 2011, Florida Super Lawyers
• Selected Florida Rising Stars 2009, Florida Super Lawyers
• Finalist, Daily Business Review’s 2008 Most Effective Lawyer’s Award (International Law).

Articles & Publications

• Protecting IP Rights in International Business Transactions

Events

• Partner, Brant C. Hadaway, Speaker: "Intellectual Property Law: Casting Stones - Assessing The Claims and Defenses" - 2011 Primerus Business Law Institute Symposium, June 22-24, 2011, Chicago, Illinois
• Diaz Reus & Targ, LLP Sponsors at the Security Tech Breakfast hosted by the British Consulate in New York City, May 21, 2009. Among the Panelist are partners Carlos Gonzalez & Brant Hadaway.
• Diaz Reus' attorneys Brant Hadaway and Vincent Li speakers at the U.M. Law Review's 2009 Symposium