Arnall Golden Gregory Adds Miami Office, Expands Capabilities to Serve the Logistics Industry

ATLANTA – Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is pleased to announce the opening of an office in Miami focused on serving clients in the global logistics and supply chain industry, including third-party logistics providers (3PLs), such as freight forwarders, customs brokers and warehouse operators; airlines and other carriers; and insurers, sureties, banks and other capital providers involved in the logistics and transportation industry. With the move, Arnall Golden Gregory becomes the only top 10 Atlanta law firm with a Miami office.

The office will be led by Andrew R. Spector, a respected litigator formerly with Hyman, Spector & Mars in Miami, who has spent a quarter century guiding global logistics companies through the intricate system of rules and laws that affect the complex business of moving cargo around the world. He and his team have handled a number of precedent-setting cases establishing critical boundaries and conditions on 3PL liability.

The logistics industry has seen a wave of consolidation, and as 3PLs expand globally, they require more sophisticated legal services. At the same time, shippers served by 3PLs have become increasingly discerning purchasers of logistics services, and the allocation of risk between logistics providers and their clientele – a high stakes equation in the world of international trade -- is increasingly a matter of serious negotiation.

The opening of the Miami office will broaden Arnall Golden Gregory’s existing capabilities to uniquely offer a “one-stop shop” to global logistics businesses. The firm’s Logistics and Transportation Practice Team merges the talents the Miami attorneys are known for – global logistics and transport law, litigation, contract law, international trade and customs, and risk management – with the broad expertise on which Arnall Golden Gregory has built its reputation over six decades.

Arnall Golden Gregory has considerable experience in a range of areas relevant to the logistics and supply chain industry, including complex insurance matters, the structuring of global business operations from a corporate and international tax perspective, mergers and acquisitions (both domestically and across borders), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), immigration and employment law, export controls, government investigations, antitrust, and international commercial arbitration and litigation.