Grant S. Smith is a Florida licensed attorney and native of Miami. He is bilingual, in English and Spanish, and a Board Certified Specialist in International Law, one of only 52 attorneys with that certification in the State of Florida.  

Mr. Smith represents multi-national private clients, trustees and companies in offshore jurisdictions, and throughout the world, in various types of commercial and inter-family cases. His experience runs the gamut of post merger & acquisition disputes, fraud, civil theft, racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act (RICO) or asset recovery to multi-national divorce, Latin American inventory proceedings and inheritance disputes before a court or arbitral panel.

Mr. Smith’s experience includes assisting family offices with clients in unique and sensitive situations. He also works with foreign attorneys and liquidators to enforce foreign judgments as well as develop strategies for tracing and seizing assets across multiple jurisdictions via mareva injunctions and norwich pharmacal orders. In that vein, he has initiated, and defended against, 28 U.S.C. § 1782 proceedings to gather evidence in the U.S. in support of foreign actions. Throughout his career, he has participated in cases before foreign courts in jurisdictions such as the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela.

Prior to joining Osorio Internacional, Mr. Smith began his legal career by working for a multi-national Ecuadorian law firm in Quito, Ecuador where he lived for approximately 2 years. While in Ecuador, he represented Fortune 100 companies navigating the bureaucratic and legal hurdles to operate in Ecuador. In 2014, Mr. Smith opened the Ecuadorian firm’s Miami office to represent private clients in cross border litigation and transactions.

As a Miami native, Mr. Smith attended Gulliver Preparatory for high school and thereafter DePauw University in Indiana before returning to South Florida to attend law school at Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center, earning his juris doctorate in 2012. During law school, Mr. Smith spent a summer living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to work at the Tanzanian Women and Children Welfare Center to assist Tanzanian attorneys in divorce and child custody cases under common law and sharia law.

Mr. Smith also serves on the board of trustees and as legal counsel to Artist in Residence in Everglades, Inc. a non-profit that provides artists with a month-long residency program within Everglades National Park.