Fernando J. Menendez, Jr.

Fernando J. Menendez, Jr., a Shareholder at LL Law Firm, focuses his practice on bankruptcy, insolvency litigation, international asset recovery, and commercial litigation matters.

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Prior to joining LL Law Firm, Fernando was a shareholder at an Am Law 200 firm and began his career at White & Case, LLP. His case experience includes representation of creditors in complex business bankruptcy and related litigation proceedings; representation of judgment creditors in the enforcement of judgments, including against foreign sovereigns; and representation of creditors in litigation related to the tracing and recovery of misappropriated assets, including assets transferred to various jurisdictions in the United States and across the globe, including Canada, the Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, England, Spain, and Switzerland, among others.

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Fernando’s professional associations and memberships include The Florida Bar Business Law Section; the Bankruptcy Bar Association, Southern District of Florida; and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He was a 2017 fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, and an adjunct professor in the Bankruptcy Clinical Program at Florida International University’s College of Law.

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Fernando earned his Juris Doctorate from New York University School of Law and has been recognized by Chambers USA, Bankruptcy/Restructuring; Legal 500, United States Elite; South Florida Legal Guide; Florida Trend, Legal Elite, and has received other honors of note. He has participated in and/or moderated panels on various topics relating to fraud, asset recovery, and related litigation.

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Fernando is admitted in the states of Florida and New York, and in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits.

Honors & Achievements

• Recognized in the 2025 edition of Legal 500's Miami Elite Rankings
• Best Lawyers, 2019-2025
• South Florida Legal Guide, Top Up and Comer, 2017-2018
• Chambers USA, Bankruptcy/Litigation, 2022-2025
• Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2012-2016

Presentations & Seminars

• Insolvencias Transfronterizas, Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Concursal Webinar, November 19, 2025
• Fair and Equitable Distribution of Estate Assets, at the XX Congress of the Ibero-American Institute of Insolvency Law, in Lima, Peru in October 2024
• Judgment Enforcement and Asset Recovery Across Jurisdictions, at the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Latin America Insolvency Symposium in Mexico City, Mexico in September 2024
• Fraud and Insolvency, at the Insolvency Practitioners Association’s London Roadshow, in November 2023
• Segunda Oportunidad en los Concursos, Instituto Iberoamericano Conference, October 21, 2020
• “How Much Can you Trust the Litigation Trust?,” iLaw2020 Conference, February 28, 2020
• “Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, Avoiding Collateral Damage”The Florida Bar Business Law Section CLE, April 20, 2018
• “Selling the Sale: Key Provisions in Section 363 Sale Orders,” American Bankruptcy Institute Seminar, April 5, 2018

Representative Experience

• Counsel to secured creditor holding more than $30 million in debt in contested chapter 11 proceeding involving large parcel of vacant land in downtown Miami
• Counsel to unsecured creditor holding multi-million claim in contested chapter 11 proceeding involving reorganization of construction company following fatal bridge collapse incident
• Counsel to pharmaceutical company in contested chapter 11 proceeding of drug manufacturer, including with respect to bankruptcy sale issues, assumption and assignment of executory contracts, and preservation of pre- and post-petition contractual rights
• Counsel to chapter 7 trustee in litigation resulting in the denial of a debtor’s discharge as a result of, among other things, debtor’s failure to disclose interest in $2.7 million bonus found to constitute property of the estate
• Counsel to foreign defendants in federal litigation involving claims for purported violations of, among other things, the Federal Communications Act and the Lanham Act (Trademark and False Designation of Origin)
• Representation of secured creditors challenging debtors’ repeat bankruptcy filings (to avoid foreclosure) resulting in dismissal of both cases on grounds of bad faith and entry of an order barring any further stay of foreclosure proceedings in event of future bankruptcy filings by same debtors
• Counsel to restructuring Mexican paper company in proceeding seeking recognition of foreign bankruptcy proceeding in U.S. and requesting related protections under chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
• Representation of lender with under-secured claim in chapter 11 case filed by outlet mall in the Southern District of Florida, resulting in negotiations leading to consensual plan and lender’s recovery of outlet-mall property
• Representation of indenture trustee with respect to claims involving $479 million in convertible senior notes issued by Charter Communications
• Representation of lighting company in all stages of negotiation and effectuation of prepackaged plan of reorganization in the District of Delaware
• Acting as part of team representing large shareholder and principal investor in proposed restructuring of Delphi, the spun-off parts manufacturer of General Motors

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