Practice Expertise

  • Acquisitions and Dispositions
  • Commercial Real Estate Lending
  • Finance and Restructuring
  • Aviation Litigation

Areas of Practice

  • Acquisitions and Dispositions
  • Aviation Litigation
  • Commercial Real Estate Lending
  • Finance and Restructuring
  • Latin America
  • Leasing
  • Real Estate Investment and Finance
  • Real Estate, Development and Finance
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Profile

Gil brings over 19 years of experience to the Hunton Andrews Kurth Capital Finance and Real Estate Group and the firm’s Latin America practice, and is frequently recognized by Florida and national publications. Gil represents investors, developers and lenders in commercial real estate transactions in the U.S. and Latin America involving the financing, leasing, acquisition and disposition of retail, hotels, office buildings, multi-family apartment buildings, vacant land, mixed-use developments and luxury condominium and single-family residences.

Gil serves on the Commercial Real Estate Committee of the Florida Bar’s Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section. He also has an active pro bono practice, serving on the Miami Office Pro Bono Committee and providing legal assistance to clients dealing with immigration issues, landlord-tenant conflicts and economic hardship issues, among others.

As a first generation law student himself, Gil is a volunteer mentor to first-generation law school students.

Bar Admissions

    Education
    LLM, Real Property Development, University of Miami School of Law, 2004

    JD, Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School, with Distinction (Moot Court Board; Senior Associate Editor, Law Review; Editorial Staff Member, Journal of Practical and Clinical Law; and Summer Institute at the University of Paris–Sorbonne, France), 2003

    BA, University of South Florida, 1997

    Areas of Practice

    • Acquisitions and Dispositions
    • Aviation Litigation
    • Commercial Real Estate Lending
    • Finance and Restructuring
    • Latin America
    • Leasing
    • Real Estate Investment and Finance
    • Real Estate, Development and Finance

    Professional Career



    Articles

    • Buyer Beware — The Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act, American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust & Estate Law
    • To Withhold, or Not to Withhold, That is the Question. A Step by Step Approach to the FIRPTA Income Tax Withholding, Florida Bar Journal, Volume 92, No. 4

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