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Manuel A. Rodriguez concentrates his practice on complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on business transactions involving fraud or financial statement manipulation. Mr. Rodriguez is Certified in Financial Forensics and has been involved in many forensic investigations as a CPA and analyzed financial statement fraud at a national class action law firm. Mr. Rodriguez’s experience includes national class action litigation involving complex insurance products deemed abusive tax shelters by the IRS, class action litigation pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and creditor and debtor representation in federal bankruptcy court.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Rodriguez was a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for a large Big “8” national accounting firm and several local firms. His experience as a CPA was primarily in the areas of fraud detection and forensic services, litigation support, auditing of large, multi-national corporations, SEC due diligence as required by registrants, internal control review and compliance, and non-profit Yellow Book compliance. While at the Big “8” firm, Mr. Rodriguez participated in a variety of audits involving Edge Act Banks and other international banking institutions. Mr. Rodriguez’ forensic experience includes: review of financial affidavits for evidence of asset concealment; detection, tracing and recovery of fraudulent asset transfers involving less than reasonably equivalent value; identification of risk analysis exposures and implementation of prevention and detection techniques; detection of cross border fraud and involvement in asset recovery efforts abroad; design and implementation of forensic audits to discover fraudulent activity; analysis and detection of improper insolvency claims and valuations in bankruptcy; and pre and post-judgment asset recovery.
Mr. Rodriguez received his BS from Barry University in 1986, and his J.D, Magna Cum Laude (top 10% of class), from the University of Miami School of Law in 2002. While attending the University of Miami, Mr. Rodriguez received a variety of honors and awards, including: the Order of the Coif, Dean’s List, CALI Excellence for the Future Award (Contracts), Dean’s Certificate of Achievement (Contracts), Dean’s Merit Scholar, Dean’s Certificate of Achievement (Legal Profession), and was selected to participate in two international law conferences.
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