Jerry Brodsky is a Partner and Director of Peckar & Abramson’s Latin American practice. Jerry is trilingual (English/Spanish/Portuguese) and is certified by the Florida Bar as a Construction Law Specialist. Many of Jerry’s matters involve multi-cultural domestic or cross-border transactions and disputes.
His practice includes the representation of international and domestic developers, general contractors, construction managers, surety, and other construction professionals in the United States and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean in the preparation of contract documents, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation of construction contract claims, construction and design defect claims, insurance claims, surety bond claims, and related matters.
Jerry’s practice and experience include mega-projects for transportation and other infrastructures and industrial, commercial, and residential engineering and construction projects. Jerry also provides training services and counseling to domestic and international clients in the areas of contract negotiation, compliance, and legal project administration/risk management. In 2021, he completed FIDIC Certified Course Module 2: Claims and Disputes Resolution.
Jerry represents and has served as project counsel during the procurement, negotiation, implementation, administration, and post-completion phases of mega-projects, using both traditional and project finance/public-private partnership delivery models.
Jerry also serves as a referee and dispute board member in international disputes involving the construction of infrastructure projects in Latin America and was engaged to develop, implement, and administer a program of dispute boards for world sporting events in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016.
Jerry is admitted to practice in the State of Florida and the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Florida. He is a member of the Florida Bar, the Dade County Bar, and a Fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers. He serves as Secretary of Region 4 – Latin America of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation and has served as Chair of the International Division of the American Bar Association Forum on Construction Law. He received his Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from Lehigh University and his law degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Miami.