Practice Areas
We advise and guide clients through a variety of domestic and international corporate transactions, including joint ventures, financial transactions (including lending, finance and leveraged buy-outs), commercial real estate, health care and technology-related transactions, and (working with our clients’ litigation counsel, accountants, and advisors) sophisticated commercial litigation and arbitration.
Biotech & Pharmaceutical
GBPL enables individuals, teams and companies to profit from the discovery, development and commercialization of breakthrough technologies. Whether your products are drugs or devices, we work with you to successfully acquire, develop and commercialize products, addressing multidisciplinary issues through our firm and our network of professionals outside the firm to provide integrated, strategic, and practical advice for successful drug and device product development, testing, approval and marketing.
Corporate
GBPL advises public and private companies, investment banks, and other institutions and individuals on almost every type of transaction or corporate matter. Our areas of expertise include, but are not limited to: banking, corporate(general), corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate restructuring, financial institutions, structured finance and UCC and secured transactions.
The experience of our lawyers, the breadth of our practices, and the geographic reach of our U.S. and international capabilities have enabled us to provide services to clients from around the world.
Entrepreneurship & Tech Start-ups
GBPL helps clients create value by protecting new ideas, creating new brands, launching new ventures, and facilitating strategic relationships. Because our attorneys have acted as founders, executives, operators, managers, directors and investors in a variety of industries, our firm is ideally situated to provide industry-specific advice and practical legal and business solutions to help you conduct your business.
Healthcare
GBPL provides legal counsel to many organizations in the health care industry. representing and advising health care providers, including hospitals, individual physicians, physician groups, professional medical associations, health care facilities and ancillary service providers such as laboratories, pharmacies, home health agencies, imaging centers and medical billing companies. In addition we represent pharmaceutical, medical device and medical supply manufacturers and distributors.
International
GBPL has developed its international practice to counsel domestic and foreign based multinational entities, board of directors, financial institutions, family offices, investment funds and individuals on a variety of cross-border legal matters involving advisory, transactional, investigative, enforcement and dispute resolution services on behalf of clients from around the world. Utilizing our deep technical expertise and business judgement, our lawyers respond to client issues and assist them in clients capitalizing on business opportunities. GBPL has a significant international client base in a broad range of industries. In addition, GBPL has a extensive experience in the Latin American, and European markets. GBPL has an excellent network of law firms internationally, which allows us to provide comprehensive, multi-jurisdictional representation.
Luxury Goods
Our attorneys have significant experience in representing the manufacturers and licensors of well-known luxury goods in licensing their extremely valuable brands to third parties. We also help our clients protect the value of their rights to their brands when they are threatened with a diminishment in value by third parties seeking to market, distribute and sell counterfeit or “gray market” goods, without the brand owner’s consent and often by infringing on the brand owner’s trademarks, tradenames, copyrights and other intellectual property rights.
Real Estate
GBPL counsels and guides domestic and international purchasers, investors, developers, operators, and sellers with respect to all types of Florida real estate. Our statewide real estate practice includes due diligence, contracting, and investigation and resolution of problematic issues for shopping centers, office buildings, acreage, apartment complexes, hotels, hospitals, mining properties, agricultural and grove properties, and warehouses. The scope of GBPL’s real estate work also includes financing, leasing, and negotiation and drafting of agreements related to real estate operation and management.
Sports Law
We counsel clients regarding all aspects of the business of sports. We advise clients with respect to the acquisition and financing of domestic and international professional sports teams, including structuring the transactions, drafting and negotiating the transaction documentation and successfully consummating the acquisition and related financing. We also represent clients in drafting and negotiating various collateral agreements with respect to the operation of professional sports teams, including contracts with arenas, such as those with stadiums and arenas, television and broadcast agreements, sponsorship agreements and licenses of team intellectual property. We also are skilled at the drafting and negotiation of player agreements such as endorsement agreements.