AI Magazine Issue 8 2018

Acquisition International - Issue 8 2018 49 Link & Rockenbach PA call themselves “ Gladiators of the Courtroom ”. It’s an apt title for a partnership that has participated in more than 150 arbitrations and jury trials in business and corporate law. In April, Scott Link and Kara Rockenbach were named in Acquisition International Magazine’s ongoing 2018 Leading Adviser Awards, with the title of Leading Complex Business Litigator of the Year for the state of Florida. On the back of this win, we endeavoured to take a look at the firm’s success in this competitive legal arena. ounded in November 2017, Link & Rockenbach have made a strikingly swift impression on the business landscape. Advocating from a position that winning cases is the most important cornerstone for any law firm, they have focused their efforts in achieving excellent standards in the courtroom and during the appeals process. For Founding Partners, Scott Link and Kara Berard Rockenbach, winning cases comes naturally. With fifty years’ experience between them, they have represented national, state-wide and regional clients through the most complex of litigation, often overcoming the odds to secure victory. Both are, by all regards, accomplished professionals in their areas of practice. Scott has over thirty years of experience in Florida’s legal circuit, alongside memberships to the American Bar Association Section of Litigation Committee on Securities Litigation, the Securities Industry Conference on Arbitration, and the Palm Beach County Bar Association. Equally, Kara Rockenbach specialises in in appellate law and insurance, managing the firm’s property insurance practice. She has represented clients in the Florida Supreme Court and has handled over 300 appeals in Florida’s district court of appeals. Since 2015, Kara has been recognised as one of the best appellate lawyers in the United Company: Link & Rockenbach PA Address: 1555 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, Suite 301, West Palm Beach, Florida, 33401, US Website: www.linkrocklaw.com Telephone: 001 561 847 4408 Diligently Fighting for Their Client’s Rights F 1805AI40 States, and, in 2017, was named as a ‘Top Lawyer’ in the South Florida region. In just ten months, the firm has nurtured a reputation for being highly-competent, highly- professional lawyers in a challenging, competitive legal landscape. Though the firm specialises in complex business litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants, they also take on cases involving professional liability – representing peers charged with malpractice – and securities litigation and arbitration. The sheer fact that they are chosen by fellow attorneys speaks volumes about their esteem in the field. By any metric, Link & Rockenbach are deserving winners in the Leading Adviser programme. Their record of success, years of experience, and honed expertise has served them well over the last 10 months, and will continue, no doubt, to serve them for many years to come. “...the firm specialises in complex business litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants, they also take on cases involving professional liability – representing peers charged with malpractice – and securities litigation and arbitration.”