Marbet Lewis
Shutts & Bowen LLP
Recognized since 2020
Miami, Florida
Food and Beverage Law
Marbet Lewis is Co-Founding Parnter of Spiritus Law and has focused her practice on the laws governing the alcohol industry and the manufacture, importation, and sale of alcohol beverage products since 2004. She represents clients in all aspects of alcohol and business licensing, alcohol licensee mergers and acquisitions, negotiation of asset purchase agreements and required alcohol use provisions, license transfers and licensing due diligence, trade practices, alcohol product advertising and review of marketing agreements, importation agreements, label approvals, and regulatory compliance guidance. Her experience also includes enforcement action defense and administrative litigation, zoning and land use due diligence and approval processes, and state and local government regulatory compliance, which includes drafting municipal code ordinances and amendments as well as assisting with redistricting and development of entertainment overlay districts.
Marbet also assists clients with additional business permitting including obtaining business tax receipts, building permitting, certificates of use and occupancy and other related operational permits, as well as representing various entertainment, hospitality, and alcohol industry clients during the zoning approval process, including representation before zoning boards for approval of variances, special exceptions, and use nonconformity issues as well as representation for zoning appeals cases. She has assisted with transfer of business and operational permits required as part of large asset acquisition transactions and merger of national retailers including hotels and entertainments venues such as movie-theaters.
She works with domestic and foreign suppliers, wholesalers, manufacturers and a broad range of retailers, including nightclubs, bars, movie theater operators, hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, and pharmacy chains.
Mrs. Lewis is proficient in Spanish and has been a featured guest on Nuestro Mundo and A Fondo.
- E-mail: mlewis@shutts.com
- Direct Phone Number: 305-224-1003
- Phone Number: 305-224-1003
- Lawyer Page: https://www.shutts.com/professionals-Marbet-Lewis
- 200 South Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 4100
Miami, FL 33131
- English
- Spanish
- Ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino
- Saint Thomas University, Juris Doctorate,
- Florida International University, Bachelor of Arts
- Florida, 11/17/2004
- Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce - Member
- Cuban American Bar Association - Member
- Dade County Bar Association - Member
- National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA) - Member
- National Association of Alcoholic Beverage Licensing Attorneys (NAABLA) - Member
- National Association of Licensing & Compliance Professionals (NALCP) - Member
- National Conference of State Liquor Administrators (NCSLA) - Member
- The Florida Bar, Administrative Law Section - Member
- The Florida Bar, City, County, and Local Government - Member
- Women of the Vine & Spirits - Brand Ambassador
2 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
- Food and Beverage Law
- Ranked in Nationwide Category: Food & Beverages: Alcohol, Chambers & Partners USA, 2019-2020
- Best Lawyers in America: Food & Beverage Law, U.S. News & World Report, 2020
- Florida Trailblazer, Daily Business Review, 2019
- Rising Star, Super Lawyers, 2017, 2018
- Outstanding Lawyers of South Florida, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s 40 Under 40, 2017
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Land Use and Zoning Law
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