Brant C. Hadaway

Partner

Seasoned bilingual (English/Czech) attorney focused on international commercial disputes for varied foreign and domestic clients in U.S. and U.K. courts.

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.

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