
Oscar de la Guardia
Of Counsel
Phone: 786-401-2024
Fax: 786-401-2025
Email: odelaguardia@cooperlevenson.com
Location: Ft Lauderdale, Miami, & Boca Raton, Florida
Oscar de la Guardia is a highly experienced business attorney whose legal career spans 35 years and encompasses mergers and acquisitions, financings and other significant corporate transactions, particularly for middle-market growth companies. He has structured, negotiated and implemented successful corporate acquisitions and divestitures, turnarounds, joint ventures and partnerships and many other sophisticated corporate transactions.
Oscar has represented both lenders and borrowers in debt and combined debt/equity financing vehicles, especially financing secured by accounts receivable and other intangibles. His practice also includes federal and state securities matters, particularly private placement syndications, and securities compliance and reporting responsibilities. Oscar recently represented the buyer in an acquisition of a casino property from the country’s largest, publicly-traded casino company, in a transaction valued at $1.3 billion. He has also recently served as trustee and escrow agent for transactions involving crypto-currencies and other digital assets.
Credentials
- Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell*
Education
Oscar is a graduate of St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida (B.A., cum laude) and the University of Miami School of Law (J.D., cum laude), where he served as Executive Editor of the Law Review. He is a member of the Florida Bar and is fluent in Spanish.
*AV Preeminent®: The highest peer rating standard. Martindale-Hubbell conducts a thorough review of attorneys through a secure online peer review survey where a lawyer’s ethical standards and legal ability in a specific area of practice is assessed by their peers. Read more.