Katherine Amador-Fortuny

Partner
Chair, Real Estate Department

Katherine.Fortuny@InfanteZumpano.com
Direct: 786-345-2122

From the first hand-shake to the closing table, from loan to Courthouse steps, Katherine Amador-Fortuny is known as the “dirt lawyer” who gets deals done.  And as Chair of Infante Zumpano’s Real Estate Department, she leads a team of seasoned real-estate litigators and dealmakers ready to tackle any client objective.

On the deal side, Katherine has represented buyers, sellers, developers, and lenders in real estate transactions, restructurings and developments for mixed use, office, retail, industrial, multi-family, single-family community, undeveloped land, and other types of properties located throughout the country.  She has represented opportunity funds, insurance companies, asset managers, banks, publicly traded companies, private companies, developers, entrepreneurs, technology companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies on a variety of real estate transactions and developments.

On the litigation side, she has represented clients – in court and out of court – in disputes involving purchase and sale contracts and options, secured loans, inter-creditor agreements and agent disputes, management and operating agreements, ownership and control, title matters, and commercial leases (including eviction and forcible detainer actions, and rights of first refusal matters).

With the collapse of the real estate market, lenders have sought Katherine’s advice and aid in enforcing their secured claims, including foreclosure, receivership, guaranty enforcement and disbursement issues, as well as defending lender liability and bad faith claims.  Likewise, local and foreign opportunity investors rely on her experience in distressed asset acquisitions, and she has helped clients acquire significant residential, commercial, and resort developments and assets.

In recognition of her vision and leadership, Katherine was recently recognized as a 2011 Woman Extraordinaire by Business Leader Magazine.   She is also a founding member of the Florida Fiduciary Forum, an organization that seeks to promote the highest ethical fiduciary standards among real estate receivers and similar fiduciaries.  Katherine is an active Member of the Dade County Bar Association and the Cuban American Bar Association.

A true Miami native, she received her J.D. from the University Of Miami School Of Law in 1997.  A mother of three beautiful children, Katherine also makes a mean arroz con pollo.

Significant Representations

• Represented several opportunity funds in distressed residential multifamily and commercial real estate acquisitions throughout South Florida.
• Represented financial institutions and vulture funds in multi-million dollar commercial foreclosure actions, actions to enforce guarantees and seek deficiencies, and in loan modification and workouts.
• Represented developer in success defense of multi-million dollar commercial foreclosure action filed by lending institution.
• Advised a major South Florida pharmacy company in their store expansion projects, including site selection and acquisition, financing,  construction, governmental relations, and corporate and employment matters.
• Represented a major South Florida resort operator in the acquisition of a $400M golf resort and development, and follow on disputes with golf club members.
• Represented major South Florida building supplier and contractor in $20M work out and loan forbearance.
• Represented a telecommunication company in garnishment action filed by judgment creditor against the Republic of Cuba, Fidel Castro Ruz, et al.
• Represented well-know Miami gaming facility in acquisition of $87M expansion financing.
• Represented condominium owner in Federal Constitutional challenge to new collection procedures under Florida Condominium Act.

• Real Estate, Transactional and Litigation
• Real Estate Financing
• Civil and Commercial Litigation
• Closing and Title Work

• Dade County Bar Association
• Cuban American Bar Association
• Florida Fiduciary Forum

• 2011 South Florida Business Leader, “Woman Extraordinaire”

• Lead Federal District Court action challenging the constitutionality of new collection procedures authorized under recent amendments to Florida’s Condominium Act.

• “Justice Watch: Suit Challenges State Law Redirecting Rent Payments,” Daily Business Review, May 2011
  • “Mortgage Fraud and Foreclosures,” South Florida Compliance Association, Spring 2010

• J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 1997

• Florida