Most law firms that advertise cross-border work added it as a line item once the demand showed up. Saltiel Law Group did the opposite. It was founded in 2018 specifically to serve companies moving between Latin America, Spain, and the United States. The international, bilingual framing is the original design, not a label stuck on later.

Serving cross-border clients bilingually

Saltiel Law Group runs entirely in English and Spanish, which is a working requirement when a client's corporate records, executives, and tax obligations sit across two continents. Lose meaning in translation at a contract negotiation or a regulatory filing and the cost lands on the client. Based in Coral Gables, the firm covers Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. The geographic spread is local; the client base is not. That mismatch, a small South Florida address serving capital that originates in Madrid, Monterrey, or Mexico City, is the thing that defines how the firm is set up and how it should be judged.

Wide range of practice areas

The practice list is long for a six-attorney office. Saltiel Law Group handles Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Contract Law, Business Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Intellectual Property, Tax Law, Securities Law, Business Operations, Business Succession Planning, Franchise Law, and Trusts and Estates. On a small bench, a list that wide can read as overreach, a firm claiming to do everything because it cannot afford to turn anything away. Here the pairings have a logic. Succession and estate planning sit next to entity formation because a company growing into a new country eventually faces questions about ownership continuity and inheritance, and the team that built the original entity already knows the structure.

Following clients through growth stages

Handing those questions to the same people removes a handoff. The franchise and securities lines point to clients scaling well past simple registration. Across the full range, Saltiel Law Group can follow a company from its first U.S. entity filing through an acquisition or a financing round to a succession event without passing the client to another firm partway through.

Keeping litigation alongside transactional work

The decision that does most of the work is keeping litigation in-house alongside the transactional practice. A cross-border client who lands in a contract dispute or a partnership fight does not want to brief a fresh litigator on deal documents drafted elsewhere, walking a stranger through a relationship that played out in two languages across two jurisdictions. The history alone can take weeks to transfer, and weeks are expensive when a dispute is live.

Team of six attorneys

Saltiel Law Group keeps that work under the same roof, so the people who drafted the deal are the people who defend it. Matthew Carcano is the litigation partner running dispute resolution. Moises Saltiel, the managing partner, leads corporate and M&A work. Andres Hernandez is lead tax counsel. Carlos Aguilar is of counsel, Senen Garcia is a senior associate, and Hubert Menendez is an associate. The lanes are named, so a prospective client can research each attorney and work out where a matter would land before making contact, instead of trusting a vague line about team capacity.

Independent rankings and professional recognition

Saltiel Law Group holds a Chambers and Partners USA Spotlight ranking. Chambers ratings come from structured interviews with clients and opposing counsel, not from self-nomination, so a Spotlight recognition for a six-year-old boutique in a crowded South Florida market is not a vanity badge. Attorneys at Saltiel Law Group also appear on Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists and on Lead Counsel verified directories. None of those are self-published. A client arriving from Mexico City or Barcelona can hand those credentials to a board or an investor who wants outside validation of the counsel engaged. That is the practical use of an independent ranking: it travels, and it answers to people who were not in the room.

Consumer reviews compared to credentials

The consumer side is quieter, and for this kind of work that tracks. There is an active Yelp listing for the Coral Gables office with photos attached. A confirmed Google star rating, a Trustpilot score, or a BBB score was not publicly findable. Corporate clients moving capital across borders rarely post star reviews, so the absence is closer to the nature of the clientele than to a warning. For business law at this level, Chambers is the metric that counts, and Saltiel Law Group has it. A buyer who leans on aggregate consumer scores will find little to read about Saltiel Law Group, but for the work described, the professional recognitions answer the same question those scores would, and answer it from a tougher source.

Saltiel Law Group reports strategic alliances in Spain and Mexico. For a six-attorney office whose whole reason for existing is connecting the Spanish-speaking world to the U.S. market, those alliances are how the firm stretches past what its headcount allows. A client in Madrid or Monterrey planning a U.S. expansion needs counsel with a real working relationship at both ends of the transaction, not a list of referral contacts handed over at the start. A formal alliance is a more credible answer, and it backs the claim that the firm is built for this work specifically and not by accident.

The honest limit is size. Saltiel Law Group is a single-location boutique with a six-person bench. A multinational pushing hundreds of transactions a year on a compressed timeline can outrun that capacity, and an in-house litigation lane does nothing to fix a volume problem. A mid-sized Latin American company setting up its first U.S. subsidiary, or an American operator moving into a Spanish-speaking market for the first time, gets a firm that was designed for exactly that case, with outside credentials behind the claim and corporate, litigation, and tax work held in one place. The published Chambers ranking and the named attorney lanes give enough to size up the fit on the merits without any preliminary call. The verdict turns on scale: a strong match for a focused cross-border matter, the wrong tool for high-volume work.