For more than 25 years, Rivero Mestre has been laser-focused on practicing commercial litigation at the highest levels. We have been counsel on some of the largest cases in the world. Our low volume of truly complex matters allows us to provide unparalleled quality. We know that at the heart of every one of our lawsuits, there is a knotty business problem. We come up with creative solutions you won’t find anywhere else.

We don’t get hired to tell our clients what won’t work—we tell them what will. Our clients call us “game changers” and consistently say we “punch above our weight.” Don’t take our word for it—see for yourself. Below are a few examples of our most notable work:

Chevron—When a Chevron lawyer, Rodrigo Pérez Pallares, came under criminal investigation in Ecuador because of a $100 billion environmental claim against the company, he had to leave his country, effectively exiled. We were hired to get him home. The solution lay in gathering discovery through the cutting-edge use of little-known 28 U.S.C. § 1782 discovery in the United States. We successfully pursued 1782 actions in numerous federal district courts. As a result, we gathered millions of documents and hundreds of hours of outtakes from Crude, a documentary about the litigation. We did so, in part, by getting a ruling from the Second Circuit ordering the filmmaker to immediately turn over the outtakes. The documents and the outtakes revealed compelling evidence of Mr. Pérez’s innocence, which we turned into a motion to dismiss. We got Mr. Pérez home.

Dr. Craig Wright Trial—We were hired by Dr. Craig Wright, also known as Satoshi Nakamoto (the inventor of Bitcoin) in a $600 billion trial that the media is calling “the trial of the century” and the “biggest trial in history.” After a month-long trial and seven days of jury deliberation, in a case that was widely thought to be unwinnable, we obtained a jury verdict in favor of Dr. Wright. During the trial, our team presented compelling evidence that Dr. Wright is the sole inventor of Bitcoin and is in fact Satoshi Nakamoto.

Helms-Burton Lawsuits—These cases have major implications as the Helms-Burton Act provides Cuban-American plaintiffs with the right to recover damages from defendants that traffic in, or benefit from trafficking in, their confiscated properties. The Act also provides treble damages where the defendant is shown to have notice. In the lawsuits against Trivago GMBH, Booking.com B.V., Expedia Inc., and other travel companies, Rivero Mestre won an appeal resulting in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversing the dismissal of a lawsuit concerning Helms-Burton Act violations. The Court remanded the case for further proceedings allowing it to move toward trial. In the appeal, Rivero Mestre argued several jurisdictional issues on which the defendants based their motion to dismiss. The appellate court agreed that jurisdictional requirements were sufficiently alleged.

Bantrab—Rivero Mestre represented Bantrab, a large Guatemalan bank, in a complex international dispute arising from an agreement signed by three former members of the Board of Directors and an individual who set up a structure in which the ownership of the Bank would be converted to the signatories of the agreement. The claimants accused Bantrab of breaching its contractual obligations and requested $400 million in damages. The Spanish-language international arbitration raised questions of competency of an international tribunal to adjudicate issues subject to and pending before the Guatemala judicial branch, which had directed the bank to suspend all payment of dividends and maintain the status quo of the issued stock and the receipt of the money. Rivero Mestre successfully argued that DHK was attempting to use the arbitration process in Miami to circumvent proceedings in Guatemala where DHK's shares were frozen due to the corruption investigation. The arbitration resulted in an award in favor of Bantrab.