Ms. Leyza Florin Blanco

Leyza F. Blanco is a shareholder with Sequor Law in Miami, where she focuses her practice on a wide range of litigation and insolvency matters, including out-of-court workouts, debt restructuring, and the representation of creditors, receivers, assignees, trustees and debtors in bankruptcy and general commercial litigation matters in state and federal courts. Her practice in the area of restructuring and creditors? rights is currently focused on complex business and cross-border bankruptcy and commercial litigation matters. Ms. Blanco has served in several roles, including examiner, receiver and special master in federal and state court proceedings, and has served as a neutral arbiter in an arbitration proceeding. She currently serves as chair of IWIRC and past chair of the FloridaBar?s Business Law Section, and as Special Projects Director for ABI?s Asset Sales Committee. Ms.Blanco is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and also served past chair of the IWIRC Florida Network and past-president of the Bankruptcy Bar of the Southern District of Florida. Her other notable activities include serving as lead adjunct professor at the Florida International University College of Law, for which she launched its bankruptcy clinical program. Ms. Blanco has been recognized in Chambers and Partners U.S.A. She received her B.A. from Miami College of Arts& Sciences and her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Miami Law School, where she was articles and comments editor for the Inter-American Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.