Biography
Robert Targ is a highly successful international and domestic litigator for individuals and institutions in complex, high-stakes money laundering, fraud, white-collar criminal defense, and customs cases.
Mr. Targ is a widely sought-after seminar and conference speaker on asset seizure and forfeiture, and global money laundering issues for organizations such as the International Symposium on Economic Crime in Cambridge, UK, The Florida International Bankers Association, Bahamas Association of Compliance Officers, and the Bankers Association of Central and Eastern Europe.
Practice focus includes:
- federal trial and administrative matters involving asset seizures and forfeitures,
- health care fraud and abuse,
- criminal fraud and money laundering,
- criminal or civil matters involving customs laws and regulations.
Mr. Targ is rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell®.
Accolades
Areas of Practice
Education
- American University, J.D., 1977
- University of Maryland, B.A., 1974
Certifications & Specializations
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
Admissions
- Florida
- U.S. District for the Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Accolades
- Legal 500 Latin America 2024: Compliance & Investigations; Miami Firms
- Best Lawyers in America® 2025: Criminal Defense: White Collar; and Commercial Litigation
- Legal 500 USA 2024: Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense: Advice to Individuals
- Leaders League USA 2024: Investigations & White-Collar Crime
- Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™ AV Preeminent® – AV Preeminent® is a significant rating accomplishment – a testament to the fact that a lawyer’s peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence
- 2024 Florida Super Lawyers: Criminal Defense / White Collar
Professional Leadership
- International Symposium on Economic Crime in Cambridge, UK, Panelist, 2010 – 2018
- 14th Annual FIBA Anti Money Laundering Compliance Conference, Presenter
- Thirty-First International Symposium on Economic Crime, Cambridge, UK, Presenter
- 12th Annual FIBA Anti Money Laundering Compliance Conference, Panelist
- FIBA 2011 AML Conference “How to Integrate Fraud and AML to Protect the Bank,” Panelist
- “Session VII: Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) – The issues”, Twenty-Eighth International Symposium On Economic Crime, University of Cambridge, September 5-12, 201o, Panelist
Representative Cases
Criminal Law
Successful representation of Mortgage Broker accused of participating in conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud. Client offered the opportunity to enter federal pre-trial diversion program, and no criminal charges filed.
