Jorge A. Mestre engages exclusively in a commercial-litigation practice and is Board Certified in International Litigation and Arbitration by the Florida Bar. In Chambers USA, he has been praised for “his strategic sense and creative thinking in critical litigation matters” and has been characterized as “a brilliant litigator with the creative edge; he sees a tactical advantage in what seems like an intractable problem.”Mestre represented Dr. Craig Wright in a lawsuit that alleged David Kleiman had a partnership with Dr. Wright to invent and mine Bitcoin, thereby generating an alleged 50% stake in the cryptocurrency technology. The lawsuit sought approximately $600 billion in damages. After four years of intense litigation, four weeks of trial, and seven days of arduous jury deliberation, in a case that was widely thought to be unwinnable, the jury returned a verdict in favor of Dr. Wright. The jury found that Dr. Wright was not Kleiman’s business partner and that Kleiman’s estate was entitled to none of the multibillion-dollar Satoshi Nakamoto fortune.Mestre also successfully represented a Chevron attorney in a case that was part of the $100 billion, 18-year litigation over Chevron’s alleged environmental damage in the Amazon. As part of the defense, a series of U.S. discovery proceedings were commenced that ultimately resulted in the Second Circuit ordering the production of more than 600 hours of outtakes (the most ever to be ordered produced in U.S. history) from “Crude”—a film about the litigation. The Wall Street Journal has called the case the “Legal Fraud of the Century.” Rivero Mestre was honored by the American Lawyer as a winner of a Global Legal Award in the category of Global Dispute of the Year: U.S. Fraud Litigation for its work on the case.Mestre has litigated cases through trial in federal district court and Florida state court and has handled appeals before numerous state and federal courts. He has also litigated domestic and international arbitration matters in both English and Spanish.Florida Governor Rick Scott appointed him to the Judicial Nominating Commission for the Eleventh Circuit, Miami-Dade County. Florida state court judges have also appointed Mestre as a Receiver and as an Assignee for the Benefit of Creditors. Finally, he was recently appointed by the New York City Bar Association as a representative to the 74th session of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Working Group II regarding dispute settlement.
Listed skills include Trials, Arbitration, Courts, Dispute Resolution, and 10 others.
