Harper Meyer LLP

Harper Meyer is a full-service Miami-based law firm involved in nearly all legal aspects of the commercial world, including the planning and coordination of business and family offices, whether based in the United States, cross-border, multi-national or inbound to the United States from abroad. They assist their clients with in the areas of tax planning, trusts and estates, immigration and naturalization, business and corporate transactions, mergers & acquisitions, aviation, art, maritime, real estate, complex cross-border transactions, banking and securitization of lenders’ rights, commercial litigation, trusts and estates litigation, intellectual property, and franchising and licensing. The firm prides itself on having a robust international practice, has been consistently and highly ranked and recognized by various domestic and international legal industry directories, is a member of several international legal networks, and represents significant domestic and foreign enterprises doing business in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean and around the world.

Over the years, Harper Meyer lawyers have engaged in a variety of transactions, both complex and routine, touching practically every state in the U.S., as well as every country in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Canada, the EU and Asia. Moreover, the Honorable Burton Landy served for decades as Honorary General Consul for the Republic of Korea for Florida. Most recently, Harper Meyer has made a concerted effort to expand Korea’s connections to Miami. One of Harper Meyer's strengths is its legal networks of top-notch foreign lawyers and law firms, both formal and informal, which have established relationships with the firm over many years. Harper Meyer works with the finest and most prestigious law firms in the hemisphere and are able to identify the right lawyer in each country depending on the particular project under consideration. To the extent a project being undertaken for a client entails areas of specialization beyond its own, Harper Meyer can comfortably reach out to their colleagues, both in Miami and elsewhere, to find the best counsel for the job, rather than just the most convenient or connected.

Harper Meyer's history is rich with legendary professional figures, great successes, and a number of renown and globally significant clientele which our strong sense of discretion and high ethical standards do not allow us to share. The firm was founded by three friends and lawyers, George Harper, James Meyer and Manuel Perez in 2002. Their primary motivation was the creation of a high quality, personally attentive firm catering to the highest caliber of clientele in the areas of international private wealth, corporate, commercial and finance. The practice of which would mirror the international business and personality profile of Miami. Thus, while the roots of the firm were firmly planted in South Florida, their practice – like the geographical extent of the South Florida economy – knew no boundaries. Shortly thereafter, Harper Meyer and Perez were joined by Steven Hagen, Ronald Albert and Michael Dribin, all partners from Big Law and well-known and very respected in their fields - Steve Hagen in International Tax, Ron Albert in Corporate/Commercial and Michael Dribin in Estate Planning and Probate. Katie DeLuca joined several years after as a first-year associate until she was eventually promoted to equity partner in 2017, specializing in aviation .Since then, as the firm grew by adding Partners including Andrea Villa (Aviation), Jeffrey Hagen (Tax), Nicole Baudini (Private International Wealth) and Otavio Carneiro (Corporate/Commercial/Brazil). The firm also expanded its practice into areas such as immigration, trusts, art law, commercial litigation and arbitration, adding Partners Jacqueline Villalba, Rose Parish Ramon, Laura Reich, and Clarissa Rodriguez. Most of the Partners have had extensive experience at large, multi-office, multi-national law firms, such as Holland & Knight, Greenberg Traurig, Akerman, White & Case, Steel Hector (merged into Squire Patton), and Broad & Cassel (merged into Nelson Mullins). In 2017, local legal legend George Harper, sadly passed away. However, his mentor, Burton Landy, remains with the firm. Burt is often referred to in the legal community as the Dean of International Law and the Father of International Arbitration in Miami.

Harper Meyer was founded on the premise that a smaller, more close-knit firm, composed of highly-credentialed lawyers would be able to offer more attentive, first-class legal services at more reasonable rates without compromising on quality. The steady growth of the firm since its founding in 2002 appears to have validated their belief. Many of the firm's clients have been with the firm's Partners in excess of 40 years, and several for as long as 50 years.