Francis Carter, a full-time mediator and settlement counselor in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area, has mediated hundreds of bankruptcy and civil business cases, involving avoidance claims (voidable preferences, fraudulent transfers, and Ponzi clawbacks), claims objections, foreclosures, deficiency claims, guaranties, contract disputes, and fee disputes, as well as civil cases involving directors and officers liability, business dissolutions, partners' disputes, construction defects, aviation, landlord-tenant, tax, brokers' commissions, international business disputes, and other commercial and financial issues. He is also a settlement counselor, serving as an advocate or consultant to assist other counsel in formulating settlement strategy and conducting settlement negotiations, as well as assisting in preparing for and conducting mediation proceedings before other mediators. Francis is listed in The Best Lawyers in America under Mediation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy, and Litigation – Real Estate Since 1991.