Overview

Demi represents clients, both public and private, in connection with mergers and acquisitions, other strategic transactions, and general corporate matters. She regularly handles complex domestic and cross-border deals. Demi also has experience representing clients in connection with digital infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on negotiating terrestrial and submarine crossing agreements. Demi works collaboratively with clients and counterparties to close deals as efficiently as possible.

Additionally, Demi has provided hundreds of hours of pro bono service, including consistent work with the American Pediatric Surgical Nurses Association.

While in law school, Demi interned for the Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review in Miami. She served on the Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management and as Articles Editor of the Vanderbilt University Journal of Transnational Law.

Experience

  • Represented American Electric Power Company (AEP) in the $1.5 billion divestiture of its renewable energy portfolio to a consortium consisting of Invenergy, CDPQ, and Blackstone Infrastructure.
  • Represented Industrial Logistics Properties Trust in its $4 billion acquisition of Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation.
  • Represented Fortress Investment Group in financing its acquisition of J. Alexander’s Holdings, a publicly traded restaurant company.
  • Represents technology, media, and telecom groups in connection with the construction, development, and operation of subsea and terrestrial fiber optic networks in Western Europe, South America, and the Atlantic Ocean.
  • Represented a general contractor specializing in bridge work, roadways, mass transit, and governmental buildings, including toll plazas construction, in connection with the divestiture of its business in Panama.
  • Represented shareholders of a 75% ownership stake in Eco Window Systems, LLC and affiliated entities in a sale to a publicly traded leader in premium windows and doors for a combination of $108 million in stock and cash.
  • Advised financial institution in connection with a $20 million revolving credit facility to a family dinner theater featuring staged medieval-style performances.
  • Represents Ginnie Mae in the issuance of securities pursuant to its government guaranteed multiclass securities program.

Accolades

Honors & Recognitions

  • Named a Leader in the Law, Miami-Dade Florida Association for Women Lawyers, 2024
  • Selected as a Rising Star for Communications, Florida Super Lawyers Magazine, 2024

  • Honored as an “Unsung Hero” at the Florida Legal Awards, Daily Business Review, 2024
  • South Florida Business & Wealth’s Legal Awards, “Junior Associate” Honoree, 2022
  • Recipient of the Lynn Futch Rising Star Award, Miami-Dade Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers (MDFAWL), 2022 and 2023

Affiliations

Professional

  • Board Member, Miami-Dade Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers (MDFAWL) (2022-2023)
  • Co-Chair, Women Making History Committee, Miami-Dade Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers (MDFAWL) (2022-2023)
  • Co-Chair, Mentoring Committee, Miami-Dade Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers (MDFAWL) (2021-2023)
  • Member, Mentoring Committee, Community Outreach Committee and Women Making History Committee, Miami-Dade Chapter of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers (MDFAWL)

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Education

JD, Vanderbilt Law School, Articles Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2019

MSF, Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management, 2019

BA, University of Miami, cum laude, 2014

Admissions

Florida

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