Monique D. Hayes

Monique D. Hayes is a partner with DGIM Law LLC in Miami, where she centers her practice of wealth preservation and protection, including corporate restructuring, business succession and estate planning. Her experience in bankruptcy includes claim prosecution, asset sales and acquisitions, financial transactions, fraud litigation, restructuring, due diligence and transactional matters. She previously was with Goldstein & McClintock LLLP, where she practiced in the areas of business transactions, commercial litigation and corporate restructuring. Ms. Hayes has experience advising fiduciaries, corporate and nonprofit board members, entrepreneurs and small businesses. She has successfully represented clients in a broad range of matters, including asset sales and acquisitions, finance transactions, bankruptcy plan confirmations, avoidance actions, D&O claim litigation, Ponzi scheme and other fraud litigation. She also has experience representing franchisors in franchisee bankruptcy proceedings. In the innovation and technology sector, Ms. Hayes has represented start-ups, entrepreneurs and founders in corporate formations and restructuring, due diligence and related transactional matters. Ms. Hayes is a member of ABI’s inaugural class of “40 Under 40” in 2017 and has been featured in the 40 Under 40 Outstanding Lawyers of Miami-Dade County, received the IWIRC Rising Star Award, and been recognized by Brickell Magazine as one of the Top 20 Professionals Under 40. She has also been lauded as a “Florida Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine and a “Top Up and Comer” by Florida Trend magazine. She received the prestigious Kathryn Heidt Award from the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Hayes clerked for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurel Myerson Isicoff and was a housing attorney for Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc. A member of the Florida Bar, she is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Middle Districts of Florida. Ms. Hayes is a former chair of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation’s Florida Network and a past president of the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association (a National Bar Association affiliate). She received her undergraduate degree in political science with honors from the University of South Florida and her J.D. cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, where she was a member of the Bar and Gavel Honor Society, named to the Dean’s List, awarded the Dean’s Honor Scholarship, and received the C.A.L.I. Excellence for the Future Award in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Skills.