| Practice Area: | Bankruptcy Matters |
| Email Address: | clc@kttlaw.com |
| Direct Line: | (305) 347-1774 |
Biography
Corali Lopez-Castro is a shareholder and the managing partner at Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton. She concentrates her practice on bankruptcy and commercial litigation matters. Mrs. Lopez-Castro’s practice reflects her extensive experience and expertise in a wide range of bankruptcy and insolvency matters, including bankruptcy reorganizations and liquidations under the United States Bankruptcy Code, receiverships, workouts, debt restructuring, and creditors’ rights. Her practice also involves commercial litigation matters that arise from receiverships and liquidations. She litigates before federal and state courts locally and around the United States.
Serving on the panel of Trustees for the Southern District of Florida between 1998 and 2002, Mrs. Lopez-Castro was responsible for ensuring the liquidation of assets in bankruptcy cases filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.
In 2006 she was elected President of the Cuban American Bar Association, the largest voluntary bar association in Florida. Mrs. Lopez-Castro was the second woman president of the Cuban American Bar Association.
Mrs. Lopez-Castro joined Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton in 1990. She remained with the firm through 1995, when she briefly relocated to Cleveland, Ohio, and practiced law with Hahn Loeser & Parks. In 1997, Mrs. Lopez-Castro returned to Miami and rejoined KT&T. She has been a partner in the firm since 1998 and is currently the managing partner.
She has earned Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating (AV), and from 2005 through 2010 has been recognized in Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, an independent, objective rankings guide to the nation’s top attorneys. In addition, Mrs. Lopez-Castro has been recognized repeatedly in Florida Trend’s Legal Elite for her practice in business law. The University of Miami Law Alumni Association awarded its first ever Leadership Award to Mrs. Lopez-Castro.
In addition to her involvement in the Cuban American Bar Association, Mrs. Lopez-Castro has lectured on bankruptcy-related topics at meetings and seminars of the American Bar Association (ABA) and is active in other professional organizations and the community.
Mrs. Lopez-Castro, who was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, earned her J.D. degree, cum laude, in 1990 from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was a member of the Inter-American Law Review. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 1987.
Key Practice Areas
- Bankruptcy Litigation
- Receivership
- Creditors’ Rights
- Debtor Solutions
- Commercial Litigation
Memberships
- Florida Bar, 1990, Pro Bono Standing Committee (Co-Chair, 2009-present), Annual Convention (Chair, (2009)
- District of Columbia Bar, 1993
- Ohio Bar, 1997
- United States District Court, Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida, and Northern District of Ohio
- Cuban American Bar Association, President (2006)
- Miami-Dade County Bar Association, Judicial Campaign Practices Commission, 2000 – 2005
- Florida Bar Association
- American Bar Association, Business Bankruptcy Committee, Chair of the Bankruptcy Litigation Subcommittee (2011-present); Business Law Section Chair of Executory Contract (2008); Vice-Chair of the Litigation Subcommittee of the Business Law Section (2006-2008); Chair of the Bankruptcy Litigation Subcommitee (2011-present)
- Bankruptcy Bar Association, Southern District of Florida
Education
- J.D., cum laude, University of Miami School of Law
- B.A., Brown University
- Member of the Inter-American Law Review
Speaking Engagements
- American Bar Association, Creditors’ Rights Subcommittee, Prime Motor Inns Revisited and More Letter of Credit Mischief (1991)
- American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Everything You Wanted to Know About the First Weeks of a Chapter 11 Case (2001), Everything You Wanted to Know About Cash Collateral (2002), Everything You Wanted to Know About How Bankruptcy Affects Your Business Law Practice (2004), A Practical Guide to Litigating Deepening Insolvency (2006), and Daubert: Intruder or Invited Guest in Bankruptcy Cases (2008). Moderator, General Growth Properties, Governance Principles in Chapter 11 Cases, Does Bankruptcy Remoteness Work? (2010)
- Bankruptcy Bar Association for the Southern District of Florida, Testimony of Appraisers in Bankruptcy Cases (July 1994), The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1994 (January 1995), Involuntary Bankruptcies (February 1999)
- Sale of Insurance Policies Under 11 U.S.C. §363 – Whose Policy is it Anyway? (January 2005)
- Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute, Life as a SARE Debtor: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Arbitration in Bankruptcy (2009)
- The Foreclosure/Housing Crisis: The State of the Economy and How We Got There (2010)
- Florida Fiduciary Forum – Ethical Considerations for Fiduciaries (June 2011)
