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BMD Announces Jessica K. Hew Promoted to Partner

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(Akron, Ohio and Orlando, Florida) - Brennan, Manna & Diamond (BMD) is pleased to announce Attorney Jessica K. Hew has been promoted to Partner, effective March 15, 2024. Jessica joined the firm’s Orlando office in early 2023, returning to private practice after working as in-house general counsel after working as a Vice-President, Underwriting Counsel managing the Florida Commercial Division Agencies for a national title insurance underwriter and managing international legal expense contracts for an international cloud-based business payment solution company. She has more than 30 years of experience as a litigation and appellate attorney.

Throughout her career, Jessica has worked on multi-faceted cases involving general civil, commercial, business, and real estate issues. She is a civil litigator, appellate attorney, arbitrator, and mediator, with experience in complex litigation with document intensive case management, including electronically stored information. Her legal practice areas include administrative law, corporate and business law, labor/employment, derivative actions, real estate and construction, mortgage and deficiency, HOA and condominium associations, declaratory actions, bankruptcy, torts, discrimination, insurance defense, intellectual property, family, probate, slander/defamation, abuse of process, malicious prosecution, professional licensing, professional negligence, Constitutional, adversary proceedings, local council, local government, and qui tam actions.

Jessica has been designated a “Best Lawyer” by Best Lawyers in America© and Orlando® The City’s Magazine. She is also an author and speaker with professional, community, and charitable organizations, including Orange County Bar Association, Greater Orlando Asian American Bar Association, East Orlando Chamber of Commerce, and various mentoring programs. As a member of BMD’s Empowerment and Opportunity Committee, she helped facilitate the Diversity Speaker Series for the firm in 2023 and moderated the Asian American Heritage webinar.

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Brennan, Manna & Diamond was founded in 2000 with the goal of combining highly skilled, talented attorneys with practical experience in business matters, to create a new way to provide legal and business services to its clients. BMD’s access to a network of successful business entrepreneurs, consultants and developers allows for innovative solutions, symbiotic partnerships, and sound legal and business advice. BMD serves clients of all types and sizes in numerous industry sectors nationwide, in the areas of: Business and Corporate; Construction Law; Employment and Labor; Finance; Government Affairs; Healthcare; Immigration; Intellectual Property; International Law; Litigation; M&A; Real Estate; Tax, Estate, Asset Protection and Wealth Management and more. For additional information, please visit www.bmdllc.com.


Brennan, Manna, & Diamond Relocates Jacksonville, Florida Office to Southpoint

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA – June 15, 2022 – Brennan Manna Diamond, a business law firm serving Northeast, Central and Southwestern Florida, is proud to announce that on June 16th its Jacksonville office is relocating to 5210 Belfort Road, Suite 400, Jacksonville, Florida. BMD is shifting its downtown office to Southpoint. The new location, centralized in the heart of Southpoint’s growing business, retail and restaurant area, will allow us to better serve our clients with easier accessibility. The new space will allow BMD to continue to grow and support our clients and the communities in which we work. “We are thrilled to relocate to the growing business district of Southpoint. This move will give us a better opportunity to accommodate our clients and our team of attorneys and employees. We will continue to support our community and the businesses we serve,” said Matthew T. Jackson, Managing Partner of the Jacksonville office.

Press Release: Fluresh Completes Historic Cannabis Industry Financing With $48 Million in Engagements From Federally Chartered Bank

Fluresh LLC, one of the largest vertically integrated cannabis operators in Michigan, announced today the closing of a senior secured note with a federally regulated commercial bank headquartered in southeast Michigan. The secured Bank Note closed on December 28, 2021, and is for aggregate gross proceeds of $25 million. The Bank Note has a variable interest rate and, at the time of closing, bore an interest rate of 5.75% per annum with 50% of the aggregate proceeds capped at 7.0%.