Recalde Law Firm
Business, Transactions, and Complex Disputes
Recognized, Respected & Recommended
Recalde
Law
Recalde Law Firm is a Florida-based law firm representing businesses, entrepreneurs, and investors in high-stakes transactions and complex disputes.
Since our founding, the firm has focused on matters where structure, judgment, and execution meaningfully affect outcomes — whether guiding ownership transitions, resolving commercial disputes, or advising on transactions that require careful coordination across legal, financial, and operational considerations.
Our work is grounded in a practical understanding of how businesses operate, how deals unfold, and how disputes actually resolve. Clients come to us not for volume-driven legal services, but for deliberate, engaged counsel on matters that demand attention and precision.
We approach legal work as a problem-solving discipline, not a commodity service.
While litigation is sometimes unavoidable, we emphasize proactive planning, disciplined structuring, and clear decision-making to help clients manage risk before it becomes conflict. When disputes do arise, we represent clients with focus and resolve, guided by a clear understanding of business objectives rather than abstract legal theory.
Across all matters, the firm prioritizes clarity, responsiveness, and sound judgment — helping clients move forward with confidence in both strategy and execution.
Overview And Experience
Recalde Law Firm represents business owners and investors when the legal work is tied to real leverage—ownership, control, deal terms, or a dispute that can’t be ignored.
Our role is to bring structure and clarity to moments that move quickly: negotiating transactions, documenting key decisions, and guiding clients through disputes with an eye toward outcomes—not drama. The goal is simple: help clients make good decisions with solid documentation, and protect what they’ve built when issues arise.
Empowering Businesses
Over the years, Recalde Law Firm has represented businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, lenders, officers, directors, and shareholders in complex commercial, securities, and real estate matters.
Our practice spans both transactions and disputes, allowing us to advise clients across the full lifecycle of a business — from formation and growth to restructuring, enforcement, and resolution. We regularly work with market participants navigating high-value, high-consequence decisions where legal structure and strategic judgment are closely intertwined.
Recalde Law Firm
Recalde Law Firm is led by its founding attorney, Rafael Recalde, who oversees the firm’s transactional and dispute-resolution practices and remains directly involved in the firm’s ongoing matters.
The firm’s work is guided by a commitment to disciplined legal analysis, practical judgment, and consistent client engagement. Matters are approached with an emphasis on strategy, clarity, and execution—ensuring clients receive counsel that is both technically sound and commercially grounded.
Education
- University of Miami School of Law (Class of 2008)
- University of Florida Degree Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics and Political Science
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Admitted to Practice in the State of Florida
- Admitted to Practice in the District of Columbia
- Member United States District Court Southern District of Florida
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit
Representative Matters
- Over 17 years’ experience in complex commercial litigation and business transaction matters, with oversight of over 1,000 litigation matters.
- Provide legal counsel and representation to tech start ups, investors, mid sized enterprises, accelerators and VC funds in connection with fund raising rounds, legal structuring, equity compensation plans, and other securities operations.
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) law clerk, helping the Federal government agency to investigate and litigate matters involving insider trading, foreign corrupt practices act, hedge fund fraud, pump-and-dump schemes, reporting inaccuracies, and other aspects of complex securities regulations. (Summer 2006)
- Legal intern at Steel, Hector & Davis in the Corporate Transactions and International Trade Divisions. (Summer 2005)
- Representation of both plaintiffs and defendants in multiple non-compete, breach of contract, unjust enrichment, fraud claims, trademark disputes, and other business litigation and arbitration matters.
- Legal counsel on complex multi-million dollar corporate and real estate transactions
- Law clerk with General Counsel of Citigroup Latin America, working on the bank’s mergers and acquisitions; outsourcing contracts; region-wide litigation and arbitration strategy; and coordination with GCs of 24 countries of LATAM region (Summer 2007)
- Represent parties to domain name recovery matters through litigation and private arbitration on behalf of corporate victims of cybersquatting and stolen domain names.
Practical Legal Counsel for Complex Business Matters.
We advise businesses, investors, and principals on transactions and disputes where legal decisions have lasting commercial consequences. Our work focuses on structure, risk allocation, and execution—helping clients navigate important matters with clarity and confidence.
