Eliot Pedrosa

Business & Tort Litigation

Global Disputes

Eliot Pedrosa is a first-chair litigator and trial lawyer with more than 20 years of experience representing businesses in complex litigation, and he serves as head of litigation for the Firm's Miami Office.

Eliot has first chaired more than a dozen products liability jury trials including as lead trial counsel for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and one of its predecessors in smoking and health cases throughout Florida since 2008. In addition to serving as one of the company's first-chair trial lawyers, for nearly a decade, Eliot managed more than one thousand cases as jurisdictional lead for South Florida.

Eliot has also led trial teams in numerous commercial jury trials and arbitrations involving M&A, software licensing, broadcast media rights, and international commercial transactions. A native Spanish speaker, Eliot has in-depth knowledge of Latin American law and finance, having recently completed a term as the Senate-confirmed Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank. He also often counsels and defends clients in connection with investigations by regulatory and law enforcement agencies, and earlier in his career he served in the SEC's Enforcement Division, investigating violations of the federal securities laws. Eliot also provides pro bono legal services in high-profile matters including representing human trafficking victims and bringing a First Amendment challenge on behalf of a private, Christian school.

In 2022, the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court appointed Eliot to Florida's Judicial Management Council, a 15-member panel that advises the Florida Supreme Court on the administration of the judicial branch in Florida and in 2025 Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Eliot to the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission, which he currently chairs.