Finance Monthly Global Awards 2016 Edition

71 FINANCE MONTHLY Finance Monthly Global Awards 2016 USA ADMIRALTY & MARITIME LAWYER OF THE YEAR Winner: Personal Bio Jeffrey specializes in all aspects of complex litigation, resort and tourism law, admiralty, insurance defense, medical malpractice, and corporate crisis management. In his 22 years of practicing law, he has accumulated extensive experience handling a wide array of high profile cases in state and federal courts nationwide. Jeffrey has substantial trial experience, has been featured in the National Law Journal, and is a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. Clients frequently call upon Jeffrey to help their companies effectively respond to major mass casualty and other high profile crisis. He has appeared as an expert or spokesperson on CNN, Court TV, Dateline, Nancy Grace, Anderson Cooper 360, and the Today Show. Outside the courtroom, Jeffrey frequently lectures on a wide array of human resources and tort issues. He also provides employee training on issues such as diversity and sexual harassment. When not practicing law, you can usually find Jeffrey working at his award winning California winery which produces exceptional Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Savignon Blanc and Chardonnay under the brand names Maltzman Family Vineyards, Navigator Wines, and Gold Creek Vineyards. Contact Details: Jeffrey B. Maltzman MALTZMAN & PARTNERS, 55 Miracle Mile, Suite 300, Coral Gables, Florida 33134 Tel: 305-779-5665 Direct Tel: 305-992-6555 Email: jeffreym@maltzmanpartners.com Web: www.maltzmanpartners.com Jeffrey B. Maltzman BUSINESS LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR Axis Legal Counsel: Worldwide Recognition in Business Disputes and Transactions Based out of Los Angeles, California, Axis Legal Counsel is an innovative law firm representing clients from across the United States and from 18+ countries internationally in a wide variety of business and legal matters. Axis Legal Counsel’s Business practice area represents clients in Business Lawsuits and Disputes, Business Transactions, Advisory Services, International Trade and Trade Regulation, Ventures and Startups, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Labor & Employment, Risk Management, Insurance Coverage, and numerous other related sub-fields. Axis was designed to deliver a simple product: the highest grade of legal services coupled with exceptional client service, responsiveness, and relentless advocacy. The firm has represented clients in multi-million dollar disputes and transactions, in many cases involving cross-border issues. Axis Legal Counsel’s Business Lawsuits & Disputes practice represents commercial businesses in prosecuting claims involving business torts, trade secret litigation, shareholder disputes, intellectual property infringement, intra- company dissolutions, securities litigation, breaches of fiduciary duty, insurance coverage and bad faith, real estate litigation, and numerous related matters, including up to 8-figures in value. Axis Legal Counsel’s Business Transactions and Advisory practice, on the other hand, has represented business entities in a wide variety of advisory legal matters and transactions, primarily in innovation-driven industries, including in technology, consumer products, green industries, manufacturing, mobile apps, professional services, entertainment, and entertainment- related industries. Axis’s Entertainment Business practice features a blend of expertise in the areas of business law, entertainment law, tax, and finance to provide robust legal representation to entertainment-based businesses and ventures in the fields of film/cinema, music, publishing, visual arts, and others. Axis’s Startups and Ventures practice includes the Axis Precelerator, which provides startup and strategic advisory services to emerging, growth-oriented, and seed-staged ventures and startups. Axis Legal Counsel’s success is attributed to its founder and managing attorney, Rabeh M. A. Soofi. As a former Professor of Law in Business Organizations, Soofi has been recognized consistently by SuperLawyers as being in the top 2.5% of lawyers in the State of California under 40, Euromoney’s Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Firms and Attorneys, a “Top Women Lawyer” by Los Angeles Magazine, and featured in a variety of news outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Fox News, Yahoo! Channel 7, Billboard, Random House, Examiner, Georgetown University Law Center, Lexis-Nexis, the American Bar Association, and numerous others. Winner: USA Contact Details: AXIS Legal Counsel AXIS Legal Counsel, 5670 Wilshire Blvd. 18th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036 Tel: (213) 403-0130 Fax: (213) 403-0132 Email: info@axislegalca.com Web: www.axislegalca.com