Aran Correa Guarch & Shapiro, PA.
Formally known as Aran, Correa & Guarch, P.A., was founded April 16, 1990, in Miami, Florida, by Fernando S. Aran, Danny Correa and J.M. Guarch, Jr. On January 1, 2005, Craig B. Shapiro, a then associate with the firm became a shareholder. All three founding members and the firm are AV rated. The associate attorneys with the firm are Richard Bec, Edgar Belaval, Jr., Sasha M. Cohen and Erik Muelle. Of counsel to the firm are Oscar A. Garcia, Esq., and Christian D. Keedy, Esq.
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Fernando S. Aran was born in Havana, Cuba on July 25, 1957. He graduated from the University of Miami cum laude in 1978 with a bachelor of business administration, majoring in accounting. He attended the Georgetown University Law Center where he received his juris doctor degree in 1981. Upon graduation from Georgetown, he went to work as an associate with the law firm of Smathers & Thompson. Smathers & Thompson merged with the New York law firm of Kelley Drye & Warren in July of 1987 and Fernando stayed with the firm until the formation of ARAN CORREA & GUARCH, P.A.
Mr. Aran is a member in good standing of the Florida Bar and served on the Florida Board of Bar Examiners from 1996 to 2001, and on the last year of his term he served as the Chair. Mr. Aran served on the Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono Legal Services, and was the Chair of the Florida Bar’s Eleventh Judicial Grievance Committee “J” Section. He is a member of the American Bar Association, and served on the American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry--Specialty Trade Contractors and Supplies Division.
Mr. Aran is also a member of the Dade County Bar Association and the Maritime Law Association of the United States. He is past president of the Cuban American Bar Association, past president of the Southeast Region of the Hispanic National Bar Association, and past president of the United States Propeller Club, Port of Miami. Mr. Aran is an Eagle Scout and currently serves as President of the Executive Board of the South Florida Council--Boy Scouts of America and is a member of FACE (Facts About Cuban Exiles). He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Theodore R. Gibson Memorial Fund. His areas of practice are general and commercial litigation, maritime law, construction law and real estate matters.