Global Managing Partner
Diaz Reus International Law Firm
mdiaz@diazreus.com
USA
Florida Bar Board Certified International Litigation and Arbitration* attorney Michael Diaz is a multilingual litigator, trial lawyer, and arbitral advocate with 39 years of experience advising clients, trying cases, and negotiating resolutions to complex civil, arbitral and criminal disputes. He has extensive experience handling visa recovery efforts, FCPA and OFAC violations, and Specially Designated Nationals classifications. He regularly counsels on preventative arbitration and litigation strategies, international trade and exports control including sanctions, and conducts parallel investigations in complex, high-stakes regulatory, investigative and compliance matters that involve financial fraud, international asset recovery and white-collar crime. Mr. Diaz’s sophisticated asset tracing techniques have resulted in millions of dollars in recoveries for U.S. receivers, financial institutions, and individual fraud victims. He has handled numerous notable, well-publicised litigation and arbitration cases, OFAC and sanctions matters, and cases of alleged money laundering and public corruption.
Mr. Diaz is recognised and ranked in Legal500 USA 2025 for “Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defence: Advice to Individuals”; “International Litigation”; and “City Elite Miami: commercial and international disputes”; Legal 500 Latin America 2026 for “City Leaders: Miami”, and “Compliance and Investigations”; Chambers Latin America 2026 and Chambers Global 2026 for “Corporate Crime & Investigations, Latin America-wide”; Chambers USA 2025 for White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations; and “Litigation: general commercial, Florida”; Best Lawyers USA 2026 for “International Arbitration – Governmental and Commercial”; Best Lawyers Panama 2019-2020 for “Corporate and M&A”; Latinvex 2025: Latin America’s Top 100 Lawyers for “FCPA & Fraud” and “Arbitration & Litigation”; Global Investigation Review 100 (GIR100); Leaders League USA 2025 for “Investigations & White-Collar Crime”; “International Arbitration”: “Commercial Litigation”; Florida Super Lawyers 2025. Mr. Diaz is a certified anti-money laundering specialist (CAMS).
*Only Board Certified Specialists have taken the extra step to have their competence and expertise evaluated. Board certification establishes an independent measure of competence, professionalism and peer acknowledgement. A lawyer who is board certified is recognized as “having special knowledge, skills and proficiency in the practice area and good character, ethics, and a reputation for professionalism in the practice of law.”
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