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Harsh Arora

Harsh Arora

Partner

100 S.E. 3rd Avenue
Suite 2700
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33394
T 954.745.5242
330 Madison Avenue
27th Floor
New York, NY 10017
T 954.745.5242
F 646.428.2610
harsh.arora@nelsonmullins.com
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Harsh concentrates in the areas of domestic and international corporate transactions and related business dispute resolution. He counsels public and privately held companies as a boardroom advisor and a courtroom advocate in high-stakes corporate matters.

Harsh serves as general counsel for businesses with a prominent national or international presence. His general counsel practice focuses on preventative counseling...

Harsh concentrates in the areas of domestic and international corporate transactions and related business dispute resolution. He counsels public and privately held companies as a boardroom advisor and a courtroom advocate in high-stakes corporate matters.

Harsh serves as general counsel for businesses with a prominent national or international presence. His general counsel practice focuses on preventative counseling and business structuring. Harsh advises clients on mergers, acquisitions, conversions, and domestications. He has handled a wide range of business closings, negotiations, trademark registrations, corporate governance, industry-focused due diligence for regulatory aspects of proposed deals, and business tax matters in connection with audits by tax authorities. Harsh also assists clients with dispute resolution relating to corporate transactions through business litigation, arbitrations, and mediations. He handles complex cases such as parallel civil and administrative proceedings,  multidistrict actions, and bet-the-company litigation.

Harsh Arora

and business structuring. Harsh advises clients on mergers, acquisitions, conversions, and domestications. He has handled a wide range of business closings, negotiations, trademark registrations, corporate governance, industry-focused due diligence for regulatory aspects of proposed deals, and business tax matters in connection with audits by tax authorities. Harsh also assists clients with dispute resolution relating to corporate transactions through business litigation, arbitrations, and mediations. He handles complex cases such as parallel civil and administrative proceedings,  multidistrict actions, and bet-the-company litigation.

Experience

The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

Representative Matters

Business Transactions

  • Counseled public and private companies, ranging from significant industry leaders to emerging growth and entrepreneurial family businesses, in day-to-day corporate governance matters as their outside general counsel
  • Represented prominent private equity businesses in getting merged with publicly traded companies
  • Represented domestic manufacturing and service-based businesses in negotiating joint ventures to open facilities in Asia, Middle East, South America, and Europe
  • Represented foreign business entities with structuring and establishing presence in the United States of America
  • Represented prominent business and high-net worth individual clients in sale and purchase of assets and equity transactions
  • Negotiated restructuring of acquisition and corporate transactions with complex disputes between the parties
  • Counseled non-profit entities and their board on compliance matters  
  • Represented emerging and established businesses in domestic trademark applications, office actions, and appeals before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and international trademark applications before the World Intellectual Property Organization

Dispute Resolution

  • First chair trial attorney on business separations, partnership disputes, direct, and derivative actions  
  • Represented public and prominent closely held business clients in post-acquisition  litigation,  arbitrations, and mediations
  • Litigated a variety of multijurisdictional business disputes, including complex contractual issues relating to multiple business entities
  • Provided asset protection strategies and preventative counseling to healthcare providers and other high net worth executives
  • Assisted as local counsel in defending technology businesses in a multimillion-dollar litigation relating to mergers and contractual disputes
  • Guided practice management companies through a myriad of hostile disputes between shareholders while keeping the matter out of court
  • Represented investors in complex real estate litigation through assertion of counterclaims and defense of joint venture or partnership issues
  • Represented clients in class action suits for Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations in federal court
The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

Representative Matters

Business Transactions

  • Counseled public and private companies, ranging from significant industry leaders to emerging growth and entrepreneurial family businesses, in day-to-day corporate governance matters as their outside general counsel
  • Represented prominent private equity businesses in getting merged with publicly traded companies
  • Represented domestic manufacturing and service-based businesses in negotiating joint ventures to open facilities in Asia, Middle East, South America, and Europe
  • Represented foreign business entities with structuring and establishing presence in the United States of America
  • Represented prominent business and high-net worth individual clients in sale and purchase of assets and equity transactions
  • Negotiated restructuring of acquisition and corporate transactions with complex disputes between the parties
  • Counseled non-profit entities and their board on compliance matters  
  • Represented emerging and established businesses in domestic trademark applications, office actions, and appeals before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and international trademark applications before the World Intellectual Property Organization

Dispute Resolution

  • First chair trial attorney on business separations, partnership disputes, direct, and derivative actions  
  • Represented public and prominent closely held business clients in post-acquisition  litigation,  arbitrations, and mediations
  • Litigated a variety of multijurisdictional business disputes, including complex contractual issues relating to multiple business entities
  • Provided asset protection strategies and preventative counseling to healthcare providers and other high net worth executives
  • Assisted as local counsel in defending technology businesses in a multimillion-dollar litigation relating to mergers and contractual disputes
  • Guided practice management companies through a myriad of hostile disputes between shareholders while keeping the matter out of court
  • Represented investors in complex real estate litigation through assertion of counterclaims and defense of joint venture or partnership issues
  • Represented clients in class action suits for Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations in federal court

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Recognitions

The bar rules of some states require that the standards for an attorney's inclusion in certain public accolades or recognitions be provided. When such accolades or recognitions are listed, a hyperlink is provided that leads to a description of the respective selection methodology.

Professional Activities

  • Dean’s Advisory Board Member, University of Central Florida, Rosen College of Hospitality Management (2025-Present)
  • The Florida Bar
    • 17th Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee "I" (2025-2028)
    • Judicial Nominating Procedures Committee (2022–2024)
    • Diversity & Inclusion Committee (2023-2024)
    • Gender Equality Subcommittee (2023-2024)
    • Business Law Section, Civil Rules Task Force (2021–2022)
    • International Law Section, Asia Committee (2021–2022)
  • Global Business Lawyers’ League, USA Member (2020-Present)
  • Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Fellow (2021) and Pathfinder Facilitator (2022)
  • Board of Governors Member, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law (2023 -Present)
  • Florida Editorial Advisory Board Member, Law360 (2023, 2025)
  • Board of Directors, Past President, South Asian Bar Association of Florida (2008–Present)
  • Former Board Member, Past Vice President, India US Chamber of Commerce of South Florida (2012–2019)
  • Broward County Bar Association
    • Co-Chair, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2022)
  • New England Law, Fellowship Supervisor (2020–2022)
  • Strafford, Faculty, (2020–Present)
  • Law Practice CLE, Faculty, (2023)

Community

  • Multicultural Day Volunteer, Bayview Elementary School (2022)
  • Member Representative, The Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, Corporate Council (2021–2022)
  • Pro Bono Attorney, Legal Aid Service of Broward County, (2024-Present)

Leadership

  • Chair, Nelson Mullins Pipeline Outreach Program (2023-Present)
  • Leadership Florida Member, Cornerstone Class 41 (2023-Present)
  • Co-Leader, Coaching Circles Program, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (2023)

Harsh concentrates in the areas of domestic and international corporate transactions and related business dispute resolution. He counsels public and privately held companies as a boardroom advisor and a courtroom advocate in high-stakes corporate matters.

Harsh serves as general counsel for businesses with a prominent national or international presence. His general counsel practice focuses on preventative counseling... and business structuring. Harsh advises clients on mergers, acquisitions, conversions, and domestications. He has handled a wide range of business closings, negotiations, trademark registrations, corporate governance, industry-focused due diligence for regulatory aspects of proposed deals, and business tax matters in connection with audits by tax authorities. Harsh also assists clients with dispute resolution relating to corporate transactions through business litigation, arbitrations, and mediations. He handles complex cases such as parallel civil and administrative proceedings,  multidistrict actions, and bet-the-company litigation.

Experience

The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

Representative Matters

Business Transactions

  • Counseled public and private companies, ranging from significant industry leaders to emerging growth and entrepreneurial family businesses, in day-to-day corporate governance matters as their outside general counsel
  • Represented prominent private equity businesses in getting merged with publicly traded companies
  • Represented domestic manufacturing and service-based businesses in negotiating joint ventures to open facilities in Asia, Middle East, South America, and Europe
  • Represented foreign business entities with structuring and establishing presence in the United States of America
  • Represented prominent business and high-net worth individual clients in sale and purchase of assets and equity transactions
  • Negotiated restructuring of acquisition and corporate transactions with complex disputes between the parties
  • Counseled non-profit entities and their board on compliance matters  
  • Represented emerging and established businesses in domestic trademark applications, office actions, and appeals before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and international trademark applications before the World Intellectual Property Organization

Dispute Resolution

  • First chair trial attorney on business separations, partnership disputes, direct, and derivative actions  
  • Represented public and prominent closely held business clients in post-acquisition  litigation,  arbitrations, and mediations
  • Litigated a variety of multijurisdictional business disputes, including complex contractual issues relating to multiple business entities
  • Provided asset protection strategies and preventative counseling to healthcare providers and other high net worth executives
  • Assisted as local counsel in defending technology businesses in a multimillion-dollar litigation relating to mergers and contractual disputes
  • Guided practice management companies through a myriad of hostile disputes between shareholders while keeping the matter out of court
  • Represented investors in complex real estate litigation through assertion of counterclaims and defense of joint venture or partnership issues
  • Represented clients in class action suits for Telephone Consumer Protection Act violations in federal court

Education

  • Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiations, Executive Education, Cert. (2020)
  • Boston University School of Law, LLM, Taxation (2016)
  • Florida A&M University College of Law, JD (2006)
  • University of Central Florida, Rosen College of Hospitality Management, BS (2002)
  • International Management Institute, Switzerland, DP (1999)

Admissions

  • Florida
  • New York
  • Supreme Court of Florida
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. Tax Court
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Practice Areas

Industries

The bar rules of some states require that the standards for an attorney's inclusion in certain public accolades or recognitions be provided. When such accolades or recognitions are listed, a hyperlink is provided that leads to a description of the respective selection methodology.

  • Dean’s Advisory Board Member, University of Central Florida, Rosen College of Hospitality Management (2025-Present)
  • The Florida Bar
    • 17th Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee "I" (2025-2028)
    • Judicial Nominating Procedures Committee (2022–2024)
    • Diversity & Inclusion Committee (2023-2024)
    • Gender Equality Subcommittee (2023-2024)
    • Business Law Section, Civil Rules Task Force (2021–2022)
    • International Law Section, Asia Committee (2021–2022)
  • Global Business Lawyers’ League, USA Member (2020-Present)
  • Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Fellow (2021) and Pathfinder Facilitator (2022)
  • Board of Governors Member, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law (2023 -Present)
  • Florida Editorial Advisory Board Member, Law360 (2023, 2025)
  • Board of Directors, Past President, South Asian Bar Association of Florida (2008–Present)
  • Former Board Member, Past Vice President, India US Chamber of Commerce of South Florida (2012–2019)
  • Broward County Bar Association
    • Co-Chair, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2022)
  • New England Law, Fellowship Supervisor (2020–2022)
  • Strafford, Faculty, (2020–Present)
  • Law Practice CLE, Faculty, (2023)
  • Multicultural Day Volunteer, Bayview Elementary School (2022)
  • Member Representative, The Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, Corporate Council (2021–2022)
  • Pro Bono Attorney, Legal Aid Service of Broward County, (2024-Present)
  • Chair, Nelson Mullins Pipeline Outreach Program (2023-Present)
  • Leadership Florida Member, Cornerstone Class 41 (2023-Present)
  • Co-Leader, Coaching Circles Program, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (2023)