Arnoldo Lacayo focuses his international commercial litigation practice on financial fraud and asset recovery.  He has experience litigating complex business and commercial disputes in both state and federal courts and has represented multi-national corporations and sovereign governments in matters pending in U.S. Courts.  Lacayo was recently involved in a successful federal action to confirm and enforce a multi-million dollar arbitration award in favor of a Colombian telecommunications company and related dismissal of a Florida-based federal lawsuit against the same company.  Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota S.A. E.S.P. v. Mercury Telco Group, Inc., 2009 WL 3644302 (S.D. Fla. 2009); Mercury Telco Group, Inc., v. Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota S.A. E.S.P., 2009 WL 3644313 (S.D. Fla. 2009).

Named a 2009 and 2010 “Florida Rising Star” by the publication Super Lawyers, Lacayo’s recent speaking engagements include the 2009 Offshore Alert Financial Due Diligence Conference, New Developments in the Recovery of the Proceeds of Public Corruption (Miami Beach, Florida, April 2009); The Inter-American Bar Association’s Forty-Fifth Annual Conference, Financial Fraud and the Ponzi Explosion – Taking Action When the House of Cards Collapses (Nassau, Bahamas, July 2009); and the Forty-Seventh Annual AIJA Congress, The Real Legal Weapons:  Interim Measures in Civil and Criminal Cases (Budapest, Hungary, August 2009).

His memberships include the American Bar Association and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.  Lacayo is also an active member of the Florida Bar’s International Law Section where he previously served as Committee Chair for the International Law Section’s Vis Commercial Arbitration Moot and where he currently serves as Co-Chair for the Eighth Annual International Litigation and Arbitration Conference (ILAC).  Lacayo is also actively involved with the International Association of Young Lawyers’ (AIJA) Commercial Fraud Commission as well as with the Charleston 2010 Forty-Eighth Annual AIJA Congress Organizing Committee.

He is admitted to all Florida state courts and the District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida.

As a native Spanish speaker, prior to settling in South Florida, Lacayo lived and studied in Latin America.  Lacayo 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.  He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where he double majored in Psychology and History.  He also completed a Concentration in Latin American Studies while at Notre Dame.