About

Provided by León Cosgrove Jiménez, LLP

León Cosgrove Jiménez, LLP is a litigation firm comprised of former federal law clerks and top-tier trial lawyers from AmLaw 100 firms. Since January 2013, the firm's national litigation platform and special proficiency in financial services litigation has led to the firm being chosen to handle over 1,000 of JPMorgan Chase’s matters in Florida. Highly focused and trial-ready teams represent clients in high-stakes plaintiff and defense matters across a wide range of practice areas, industries, and venues throughout the United States—often going up against and defeating, established global legal brands.


León Cosgrove Jiménez, LLP is the litigation powerhouse for one of the world’s largest banks, several large global retailers, energy companies, as well as domestic and foreign governments. Its lawyers have litigated for defrauded plaintiffs in the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme and for Bank of NY Mellon in a case brought by the Russian Federation. They recovered $120 million for CDR Creances (an instrumentality of the French government) after a French bank was defrauded in a sophisticated international scheme involving dozens of shell companies to hide the collateral for a defaulted bank loan. They recovered $76 million in a construction defect and fraud case on behalf of a large energy company in an international arbitration. The firm has also represented the state of Florida in a dispute involving $30 million owed the state annually under its landmark 1997 tobacco settlement.

Chambers Review

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Litigation: General Commercial: The Elite - Florida

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

León Cosgrove Jiménez, LLP has a flourishing practice offering expertise in high-stakes commercial litigation, particularly in the financial services space. The firm regularly handles work in insurance recovery disputes and is skilled in cases concerning lender liability and bankruptcy. It also excels in IP and labor and employment litigation.

Work Highlights

  • León Cosgrove Jiménez advised Ernesto Alvarez regarding the implications of the liquidation of his co-owned company Coex Coffee and represented him in a civil case filed by the assignee for the benefit of creditors against Mr. Alvarez and his co-defendant Ernesto Romero, which alleged breach of fiduciary duty and constructive fraud.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Derek León
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Derek León
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Band 2
Derek León comes recommended for his vast experience acting for clients in trials and arbitrations. He handles a variety of litigation, including IP matters and insurance disputes.

Derek is spectacular.

Derek is an excellent litigator.

He is smart, creative and talented.

Derek is extremely knowledgeable, thoughtful and all around amazing.

Scott Cosgrove
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Scott Cosgrove
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Band 2
Scott Cosgrove handles complex commercial litigation and offers experience in class actions, as well as IP matters.

He is a relentless, detail-minded litigator.

Scott is a phenomenal attorney and a tremendous resource.

Scott is an outstanding litigator.

Scott is excellent.

Diego Pérez-Ara
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Diego Pérez-Ara
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Up and Coming

Diego Pérez-Ara is noted for his experience representing clients in both federal and state court litigation.

Diego has vast knowledge of the law.

Diego is a bright, very good lawyer.

Ranked Lawyers at
León Cosgrove Jiménez, LLP

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Litigation: General Commercial

Derek León
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Derek León
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Band 2
Scott Cosgrove
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Scott Cosgrove
2
Band 2
Diego Pérez-Ara
U
Diego Pérez-Ara
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Up and Coming

Members

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Andrew Boese

Benjamin Weinberg

Laurie Mathews

Clients

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CDR Creances

InterEnergy

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

McDonald’s

State of Florida

Volvo Financial Services

Industries

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Banking & Financial Services

Class Action

Construction

Government Investigations and White-Collar Crime

Insurance Recovery

Intellectual Property