Cross-border disputes present unique legal and practical challenges. Florentina assists clients in navigating these complexities with strategic, efficient, and practical legal counsel. Her practice includes advising clients on jurisdictional issues, coordinating with foreign counsel, managing cross-border document preservation and production, and addressing conflicts between U.S. discovery obligations and foreign privacy or data protection laws. 

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Florentina also assists with applications under 28 U.S.C. § 1782, helping clients obtain evidence from the United States for use in foreign proceedings, as well as responding to requests for discovery arising from international disputes. 

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Florentina has extensive experience and expertise with issues that arise in cross-border litigation, including:

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• strategizing and managing litigation with global origins and impacts

• global fact investigations

• cross-border discovery, including Section 1782 applications 

• jurisdictional disputes and extraterritoriality issues

• parallel proceedings and enforcing arbitration clauses 

• forum non conveniens

• Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

• corporate separateness

• presentation and management of foreign legal issues and foreign law experts

• foreign judgment defense and enforcement

• global asset recovery

• use of RICO and parallel regulations in offensive litigation​

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Florentina’s international background and multi-lingual capacities help her understand and cater to her cross-border clients and serve as a trusted guide into U.S. law.  Florentina is active in the International Bar Association and serves as the Vice-Chair of the International Section of the Delaware State Bar Association. She is also teaching a comparative Company Law class at a French grande école. 

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REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS​

• Represented special committee members of the board of directors of a former Delaware company in relation to going-private transaction and delisting from U.S. stock exchanges which returned company operations to Chinese company. 

• Represented Mexican offshore drilling company, and its shareholders, in a multi-billion dollar dispute against the company’s bondholders and a foreign government, including before a North American Free Trade Agreement arbitration tribunal. 

• Represented Colombian company in fraud claim against a large U.S. financial institution for its sale to the client of toxic and harmful currency derivatives that caused tens of millions of dollars in damages.

• Secured favorable award in favor of Chinese real estate developer in expedited arbitration before the American Arbitration Association.

• Secured favorable settlement for foreign individual and company in relation to a petition to enforce an arbitration agreement and terminate two defamation lawsuits in Romania and Cyprus and a third, unrelated dispute in Spain.

• Defended M&A advisors from overbroad Section 1782 subpoena in relation with appraisal proceedings in the Cayman Islands. 

• Represented Section 1782 petitioners in seeking discovery in aid of foreign securities proceedings in Germany. 

• Represented European bank in money laundering investigation; coordinated discovery and productions to several U.S. federal and state regulators and advised client on its rights and responsibilities during the investigation.

• Represented Israeli company in busted-deal expedited litigation before the Delaware Court of Chancery.