Transactional Skills Program Faculty & Leadership

Often transactional lawyering skills are learned by doing and receiving feedback from senior lawyers. The faculty in the transactional skills program serve in a similar role and are Miami Law professors or partners and lawyers from some of the nation’s top law firms and companies.

Faculty & Leadership

Ines Bahachille

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, J.D. Program

(786) 442-4841
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Ines Bahachille is Chief Counsel for Mondelēz International, a global snacks and food brands Multinational Company created after the October 2012 spin-off of Kraft -foods products. The company has an annual revenue of about $26 billion and operates in approximately 160 countries. Bahachille is responsible for all the...
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Paul Berkowitz

Paul Berkowitz

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, J.D. Program
Senior Practitioner in Residence

(786) 683-6249
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Paul Berkowitz has more than 50 years of experience counseling both domestic and international companies across a wide range of industries. Mr. Berkowitz focuses on helping clients meet their capital and growth objectives. He has advised on both domestic...
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William Bratton

William Bratton

Senior Lecturer
de la Cruz/Mentschikoff Chair in Law and Economics

(305) 284-5638
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William Bratton joined the University of Miami Law faculty in 2020 as the de la Cruz/Mentschikoff Endowed Chair in Law and Economics and Senior Lecturer. He is also the Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where he was a member of the faculty and Co-Director of the Institute...
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Andrew B Dawson

Andrew B Dawson

Professor of Law
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs
Judge A. Jay Cristol Professor of Bankruptcy Law

(305) 284-8446
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Professor Dawson joined the Miami Law faculty in 2011. He received his B.A. from Williams College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review and recipient of the American Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence and the Irving Oberman Memorial Award.  Before...
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Stephen K. Halpert

Stephen K. Halpert

Professor of Law

(305) 284-3094
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Stephen K. Halpert, Professor of Law, received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1973 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1978. He also was a Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College of Cambridge University in 1973 and 1974. Before joining the Law School faculty in 1981, Professor Halpert was in private practice with the law firm of Skadden, Arps,...
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Daniel Novela

Daniel Novela

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, J.D. Program

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Daniel Novela, with over 25 years of legal experience, is the founder of Novela Law, a law firm specializing in Corporate M&A, Securities, and Significant Art law. He is also the founder of Alevon, the first online marketplace exclusively dedicated to renting fine art valued over $100,000. This innovative platform aims to transform the art...
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Michelle Pelletier

Lecturer

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Michelle Pelletier currently works as in-house counsel within the General Counsel’s Organization at American Express, where she provides legal guidance for business clients primarily located in Latin America. She spends her time drafting and negotiating contracts as well as monitoring regulatory developments in the region....
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David Rodrigues

Lecturer

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Stephen Sandiford

Stephen Sandiford

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, J.D. Program

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Stephen Sandiford is a partner at Holland & Knight and focuses his practice on handling mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities transactions, joint venture agreements and fund formation. Mr. Sandiford has experience in capital raising, corporate governance and providing other day-to-day legal advice that companies...
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Gabriel Valdes

Gabriel Valdes

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, J.D. Program

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Gabriel Valdes is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP. His practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and venture capital investments and financings involving primarily private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and other private companies. Area of Expertise Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity
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Karen Wishart

Karen Wishart

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, J.D. Program

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Karen Wishart is the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for Urban One, Inc., an American media conglomerate founded in 1980, and the largest distributor of urban content in the U.S. She has more than 20 of leadership experience in the media/entertainment industry, and a history of partnering with...
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Other Affiliated Faculty

Alix Apollon, Julien Apollon, Austin Ericsson, Sam Goodman, Carlos Nunez, Ben Wolkov 

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