Juan Azel > Winston & Strawn LLP > Miami, United States > Lawyer Profile
Winston & Strawn LLP Offices
200 South Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL 33131
FLORDIA
33131
United States
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Juan Azel
Work Department
Corporate Financial Services
Position
Juan Azel counsels and assists financial institutions and FinTech companies on the development, implementation, and execution of sound, comprehensive risk management frameworks—including tailored consumer and financial crime compliance management systems (CMS)—that identify, manage and effectively mitigate the risks associated with the development, offering, and delivery of cutting-edge FinTech products and services, such as marketplace lending (MPL) and buy-now-pay-later (BNPL), banking-as-a-service (BaaS), cards, payments, and digital assets, whether conducted directly or through third-party relationships.
Lawyer Rankings
Latin America: International firms > City focus - Miami
Winston & Strawn LLP made a bold entry into the Miami market in May 2022, assembling a large and highly-credible team, many of which are primarily focused on Latin America. They have joined a larger Latin America group, primarily located in New York, and cover a broad range of disciplines from energy and infrastructure projects to corporate and M&A, financial services and fintech, dispute resolution, and bankruptcy and restructuring. The New Miami office is led by highly-rated corporate and M&A partner Enrique Martin, who – along with long-term colleague Nicholas Rodríguez – has built an impressive practice in cross-border M&A, private equity and fund formation; the pair also work extensively in conjunction with New York partners Talbert Navia and Allen Miller. The Miami corporate team has already built a steady pipeline of inbound and outbound M&A and private equity engagements, including in the energy and infrastructure segments. The group also has a burgeoning presence in venture capital investments, notably in blockchain and digital assets. In the projects and energy field, senior figure Richard Puttré has an impressive background in representing Spanish construction companies and other sponsors. In financial services, the firm has built a substantial group covering bank regulatory, financings, fintech, payments and digital assets; various of the practitioners in the group have held senior in-house legal positions, including prominent name Carl Fornaris, while Juan Azel provides further senior-level financial services and regulatory expertise. Kimberly Prior and Daniel Stabile co-head the digital assets and blockchain technology group. In the bankruptcy and restructuring segment, Craig Rasile is immensely experienced; and Gustavo Membiela is a prominent name in Latin America investigations and international arbitration. Foreign legal advisor Isabelle Ferrarini Bueno is an emerging talent; she is dual-qualified in Brazil and New York.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Industry focus > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Transport > Shipping: finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- International trade > CFIUS
- Government > Government contracts