Florida Bar Board Certified International Litigation and Arbitration* attorney Michael Diaz is a multilingual litigator, trial lawyer, and arbitral advocate with 38 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 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-publicized litigation and arbitration cases, OFAC and sanctions matters, and cases of alleged money laundering and public corruption.

Mr. Diaz is recognized and ranked in Legal500 USA 2024 for “Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals”; Legal500 USA 2024 for “International Litigation”; Legal 500 Latin America 2025 for “City Leaders: Miami”, and “Compliance and Investigations”; Chambers Latin America 2025 and Chambers Global 2024 for “Corporate Crime & Investigations, Latin America-wide”; Chambers USA 2024 for “Litigation: general commercial, Florida”; Best Lawyers USA 2025 for “International Arbitration – Governmental and Commercial”; Best Lawyers Panama 2019-2020 for “Corporate and M&A”; Latinvex 2024: Latin America’s Top 100 Lawyers for “FCPA & Fraud” and “Arbitration & Litigation”; Global Investigation Review 100 (GIR100); Leaders League USA 2024 for "Investigations & White-Collar Crime"; "International Arbitration": "Commercial Litigation"; Florida Super Lawyers 2024. He is recognized by the Bar Register of Preeminent Attorneys and listed among the Top Litigators in Latin America by Latinvex. Mr. Diaz has earned ongoing recognition from his peers, maintaining an AV Preeminent-rating from Martindale-Hubbell’s Peer Review rankings for more than 20 years. 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.”