Aleida Martínez Molina

Aleida devotes a substantial portion of her practice to representing creditors in a variety of reorganizations and bankruptcies in South Florida and in New York. This experience includes successfully defending preference litigation actions through trial, representing creditors in adversary proceedings to prevent the discharge of amounts owed to them, representing committees of unsecured creditors and otherwise advising non-bankruptcy attorneys in discreet issues relating to bankruptcy actions. She currently serves on the Southern District of Florida Bankruptcy Court Local Rules Committee.

Recent successes in bankruptcy courts include:

• Swift dismissal of foreclosure-eve bankruptcy of a major hotel property on behalf of a bank client;
• Successfully arguing “single asset real estate” provision of Bankruptcy Code on behalf of secured creditor in a $30 Million hotel case;
• Successful opposition of turnover of property to debtor/owner of multi-use commercial property on behalf of creditor client; 
• Dismissal of numerous abusive bankruptcy filings of individuals on behalf of condominium association clients; and
• Obtained determination, on behalf of condominium association, of non-dischargeability of post-bankruptcy association fees due from individual debtor/owner to condominium association.

Aleida is also a commercial litigator who represents clients in non-bankruptcy matters in the transportation and hospitality industries, including foreign air carriers, freight forwarders, insurance companies and major hotel franchisees.

Aleida is fully bilingual in Spanish and conversant in French and Brazilian Portuguese, and has substantial experience representing foreign countries and foreign government owned entities in cases brought in the courts of the United States.  She has experience litigating Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Hague Convention issues and other challenges inherent in matters involving foreign entities. Her experience abroad includes working as a translator (French to English) in Belgium.

Professional/Civic Activities

• Committee Member, Local Rules, Southern District of Florida Bankruptcy Court
• Bankruptcy Bar Association, Southern District of Florida
• American Bar Association
• Princeton Club of South Florida
  Board Member
  Former President
• Coral Gables Elementary PTA
  Former Vice President
• American Bar Association Air & Space Law Journal
  Former Assistant Editor
• Princeton University Committee To Nominate Alumni Trustees,
  Former Member
• Princeton Unversity, Regional Associations and Careers Committee
  Former Chair
• National Kidney Foundation of Florida, Inc.
  Board of Directors
  Former Member
• Inaugural South Florida Cadillac Golf Invitational for National Kidney Foundation- Organization Group Member and Sponsor

Presentations

• “Associations and Bankruptcies,” Community Association Institute, Secured Lenders Group  Arizona, January 2010
• Asociacion de Contadores Publicos Cubanos en el Exilio, Miami, Florida
• Featured Speaker for CPA Continuing Education Requirements: Foreclosure Crisis,  2010
• Featured Speaker for CPA Continuing Education Requirements: Bankruptcy 101 for CPAS, 2009

Press Mentions

• Interviewed and Quoted in Daily Business Review article: Bankruptcy: “Troubled Condos Test Risky Survival Strategy,” 2009
• Interviewed and Quoted in Palm Beach Post and Miami Herald  article: “Bernard Madoffs’ Palm Beach Mansion Gets Tax Break,” 2009

Languages

• Spanish
• Brazilian Portuguese
• French