
Arnoldo B. Lacayo
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Áreas de Práctica

Arnoldo (Arnie) Lacayo, a shareholder at LL Law Firm, focuses his international litigation practice on financial fraud, asset recovery and cross-border insolvency. He has experience litigating complex disputes in both state and federal courts, as well as before arbitral bodies, and has represented multi-national corporations, sovereign governments, Receivers, Trustees and other foreign officeholders in matters pending in U.S. Courts. Arnie regularly supervises transnational investigations and has instructed counsel in dozens of jurisdictions. He also has extensive experience working with the versatile 28 U.S.C. § 1782 discovery statute and Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
del Asset Recovery Committee. Es también uno de los miembros estadounidenses de ICC FraudNet, donde copreside el grupo FraudNet Future. Arnie permanece activo, asimismo, en el International Law Section del Colegio de Abogados de Florida, como ex Presidente de esa organización de más de mil miembros, y continúa integrando su Executive Council.
As a native Spanish speaker, prior to settling in South Florida, Arnie lived and studied in Latin America. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Miami School of Law. As the Articles and Comments Editor for the University of Miami Inter-American Law Review, he authored Seeking a Balance: International Pharmaceutical Patent Protection, Public Health Crises and The Emerging Threat of Bio-Terrorism, 33 U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. 295 (2002), for which he received the 2003 Burton Award for Legal Achievement, an award presented annually by the Burton Foundation in association with the Library of Congress.
Honores y Logros
Arnie es también un orador muy solicitado y miembro de organizaciones destacadas:
- Vicepresidente del International Litigation and Arbitration Certification Committee del Colegio de Abogados de Florida
- Orador en OffshoreAlert Miami 2024: “High-Value International Recovery” — abril de 2024
- Orador en Thoughtleaders4 Sovereign & States Disputes and Enforcement Conference: “Tips for working for a Sovereign” — enero de 2023, Londres, Reino Unido
- Orador en C5 Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Miami: “Cross-Border Insolvency and Restructuring as Mechanisms for Exposing Fraud and Recovering Assets” — octubre de 2022
- Orador en OffshoreAlert London: “High-Value International Recovery: Tips From The Experts (Part Two)” — octubre de 2022
- Recognized by SuperLawyers in 2025
- Ex Presidente del International Law Section del Colegio de Abogados de Florida y miembro del Executive Council
- Activo en la International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA), donde actualmente se desempeña como Copresidente del National Representatives Committee y como officer del Extended Bureau
Arnoldo B. Lacayo es ICC FraudNet Future. ICC FraudNet es una red mundial de abogados líderes especializados en fraude y en localización y recuperación internacional de activos. Para más información sobre la red y sus miembros, visitehttps://iccfraudnet.org/memberspara obtener más información sobre la red y sus miembros.
Publicaciones
- Contributor to Contribuyente en Obtaining Evidence for Use in International Tribunals under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 — Second Edition– Second Edition – Edward M. Mullins and Lawrence W. Newman; Editors
- Contributor to International Litigation, in the International Law Deskbook - 2d Ed., The Florida Bar International Law Section 2026
Presentaciones
- Moderator at iLaw 2026, The Florida Bar International Law Section: "Parallel Proceedings and Forum Battles in the Age of Extraterritorial Enforcement" - February 13, 2026, Miami, FL
- Speaker at OffshoreAlert Miami 2024: “High-Value International Recovery” – April 2024
- Speaker at Thoughtleaders4 Sovereign & States Disputes and Enforcement Conference: “Tips for working for a Sovereign” – January 2023, London, UK
- Speaker at C5 Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Miami: “Cross-Border Insolvency and Restructuring as Mechanisms for Exposing Fraud and Recovering Assets” – October 2022
- Speaker at OffshoreAlert London: “High-Value International Recovery: Tips From The Experts (Part Two)” – October 2022
Decisiones Publicadas
- Application of Consorcio Ecuatoriano de Telecomunicaciones S.A. v. JAS Forwarding (USA), Inc., 747 F.3d 1262 (11th Cir. 2014): confirmando la aplicabilidad del estatuto de discovery 28 U.S.C. § 1782 en apoyo de procedimientos extranjeros contemplados.
- In re Sociedad Militar Seguro de Vida,985 F.Supp.2d 1375 (N.D. Ga. 2013): concediendo asistencia bajo 28 U.S.C. § 1782 en apoyo de un litigio pendiente en Curazao.
- Sallah v. Worldwide Clearing, LLC, et al., 2011 WL 5914034 (S.D. Fla. Nov. 28, 2011): orden que deniega diversas mociones de desestimación de reclamaciones por transferencias fraudulentas y enriquecimiento injustificado promovidas por
- In re Application of Dr. Afonso Henrique Alves Braga, 272 F.R.D. 621 (S.D. Fla. 2011): orden que deniega moción de anulación o modificación de la orden que concedió la petición de asistencia judicial conforme a 28 U.S.C. § 1782.
- Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota S.A. E.S.P. v. Mercury Telco Group, Inc., 670 F. Supp. 2d 1357 (S.D. Fla. 2009): orden confirmando y ejecutando un laudo arbitral multimillonario a favor de una compañía colombiana de telecomunicaciones.
- Mercury Telco Group, Inc., v. Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota S.A. E.S.P., 670 F. Supp. 2d 1350 (S.D. Fla. 2009): orden que desestima la demanda contra una compañía colombiana de telecomunicaciones y compele al arbitraje.
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