Emma Solaun
Partner
Overview
Emma C. Solaún is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Miami and Tampa offices. Ms. Solaún is a member of the firm's Business Law Section and International & Cross Border Transactions Group, and concentrates her practice on complex mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, asset sales, international and domestic joint ventures, corporate finance, restructurings, minority investments, private equity transactions and other strategic corporate transactions.
Ms. Solaún has extensive experience in a variety of domestic and foreign transactions and general corporate and commercial matters, such as limited liability company (LLC) operating agreements; shareholders' agreements and other joint venture agreements; purchase, sale and investment agreements; intellectual property licensing; and general business matters for clients. She represents public and private companies conducting business in the U.S. and worldwide, including Canadian, European, Latin American and other non-U.S. companies conducting business in the U.S. directly or through a U.S. subsidiary, and U.S. and Canadian clients engaging in business transactions in Europe and Latin America.
Ms. Solaún has worked on transactions involving many jurisdictions worldwide such as Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Nicaragua, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Venezuela, Uruguay, the Cayman Islands, Barbados and the British Virgin Islands.
Ms. Solaún also has broad experience in intellectual property (IP) licensing and transfers, and distribution and sales representative agreements. She works directly with in-house counsel, and regularly interacts with foreign outside counsel in serving clients across myriad industry lines and involving a variety of legal issues.
Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Solaún practiced in general corporate and commercial law in New York City for nine years.
Representative Experience
- Represented a Chilean importer and distributor of automobiles in an acquisition of interests in a Brazilian company in the business of assembly and production of automotive vehicles and parts
- Represented 17 separate sellers in a sale of approximately 40 percent of the shares of a cable company in Latin America to a private equity fund; the transaction was governed by New York law and involved a number of jurisdictions
- Represented a European produce company in at least ten share and asset acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as a project finance transaction throughout South America and Central America from 2005 through 2019
- Represented the seller of a Colombian cookware and appliance manufacturer in its sale to a Colombian subsidiary of French kitchenware company; the transaction involved a dual closing in the U.S. and in Colombia, as well as issues of New York, Florida, Delaware, Panama and Colombian law
- Represented a Canadian value retailer in its acquisition of a controlling interest in a Latin America-based value retailer with operations in Central and South America and terms for future expansion of the business into Mexico
- Represented a publicly held U.S. company in a $60 million acquisition of an offshore holding company that controls local subsidiaries engaged in the pawn broker/consumer finance operations in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Peru
- Represented a Spanish construction company's U.S. subsidiaries in connection with acquisitions of construction companies in New York and Florida
- Represented a global hygiene and health company in the sale of its Venezuelan subsidiary and related distribution and licensing arrangements
- Represented a Chilean company in its acquisition of all assets of the U.S. division of a global energy and infrastructure company
- Represented a global pharmaceutical company in its acquisition of the operating and manufacturing assets of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-registered manufacturing facility in Florida
- Represented cardiology group in its sale of a Florida practice to a U.S. private equity-backed fund
Credentials
- New York University School of Law, J.D.
- University of Illinois, B.A., cum laude
- Florida
- New York
- Committee on Foreign Relations – Tampa Bay Area
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- American Bar Association, Business Law Section
- American Bar Association, International Law Section
- The Florida Bar, Business Law Section
- The Best Lawyers in America guide, Corporate Law, 2025
- Phi Beta Kappa
- English
- Spanish