The Third District Court of Appeal wiped out contempt charges against a Dubai businessman who failed to pay nearly $2 million in legal fees to attorneys in South Florida and Brazil.
In an opinion authored by Judge Thomas Logue, the appellate court reversed orders of contempt and writs of bodily attachment issued against Azzan bin Abdulla Al Ghurair in Miami-Dade Circuit Court.
Al Ghurair, a Dubai entrepreneur and heir to a multibillion-dollar fortune, had hired Coral Gables-based litigator Hillary K. Rodriguez, Miami law firm Weil Quaranta — now Weil Snyder Schweikert & Ravindran — and Sao Paulo-based firm Moraes Pitombo Advogados. The attorneys helped him negotiate a settlement in his suit against a Florida family he alleged had failed to repay a $7 million loan.
