Mr. Silverman, honored as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” has twenty five years of experience representing individuals and businesses in complex disputes and litigation. Prior to co-founding Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen, and Levine, Steve was a Managing Director, the Chair of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department, and a co-founder of the Distressed Asset Group at Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan, and Berlin. Steve’s leadership roles and depth of experience enable him to handle a wide range of business disputes in any forum.
Steve has distinguished himself as an advocate by realizing that the first step in any litigation is to understand the client’s business and business goals, rather than approach each case as a routine series of legal and procedural battles. For clients engaged in complex business and commerce, each legal issue that arises is an important business concern, and Steve’s ability to understand this allows him to fully service his client’s needs and deliver results that have earned him the distinctions of being named a Florida “Super Lawyer,” a member of the “Legal Elite,” “The Best of the Bar” by the South Florida Business Journal, and recognized by Chambers, USA.
Steve is primarily engaged in complex business disputes and litigation, including issues relating to business torts, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, corporate governance, financial fraud, and officer and director liability, all aspects of real estate purchase, development and financing, including issues relating to the disposition and acquisition of distressed assets and foreclosure, adversary litigation in bankruptcy courts, professional liability, and class actions.
Examples of Steve’s diverse experience include: acting as counsel to receivers in large, complex, failed financial institution litigations and asset recovery investigations, litigating lender liability claims, claims relating to membership interest rights, and all aspects of real property litigation, leading a commercial class action against a major international automobile manufacturer, and representing a former public company director in a half billion dollar securities fraud action. Steve’s diversity of experience has provided him with case management techniques and extensive knowledge and skills, giving him the capability to service a wide array of clients and litigate complex legal, technological, business, and multi-jurisdictional issues.
Although Steve built his reputation as a trial lawyer, he is also an experienced appellate lawyer. Steve has handled dozens of appeals in both state and federal courts, both crafting briefs and delivering oral arguments.
