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Victoria Guevara Heiges

Victoria Guevara Heiges

Associate

2 South Biscayne Blvd.
33rd Floor
Miami, FL 33131
victoria.heiges@nelsonmullins.com

Victoria focuses her practice on affordable housing, real estate, and tax credits. She brings a well-rounded perspective to her practice, having worked both in the public and private sectors. She supports her clients by bringing her experiences in statutory interpretation and legal research and analysis from prior jobs like clerking for a bankruptcy judge and...

Victoria focuses her practice on affordable housing, real estate, and tax credits. She brings a well-rounded perspective to her practice, having worked both in the public and private sectors. She supports her clients by bringing her experiences in statutory interpretation and legal research and analysis from prior jobs like clerking for a bankruptcy judge and interning with a city attorney’s office.

Victoria Guevara Heiges

interning with a city attorney’s office.

Victoria focuses her practice on affordable housing, real estate, and tax credits. She brings a well-rounded perspective to her practice, having worked both in the public and private sectors. She supports her clients by bringing her experiences in statutory interpretation and legal research and analysis from prior jobs like clerking for a bankruptcy judge and... interning with a city attorney’s office.

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.

Languages

  • Russian (conversational)
  • Spanish (basic)
  • Tagalog (basic)
  • Turkish (basic)
  • Ukrainian (basic)

Education

  • University of Miami School of Law, JD (2024)
    • Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (APALSA), Vice President (2022-2023)
    • Bankruptcy Bar Association (BBA) of South Florida Inaugural Summer Scholar 2023
    • Bankruptcy Pro Bono Assistance Clinic, Student Intern (Fall 2022)
    • CALI Excellence for the Future Award in International Bankruptcy
    • Dean’s Fellow, Civil Procedure I (Fall 2022)
    • International and Comparative Law Review, Executive Editor (2023-2024)
    • Litigations Skills Program, Honors
    • Miami Law Student Ambassador Program
    • St. Thomas More Society, Historian (2022-2023)
  • University of Miami School of Law, LLM, Taxation (2024)
  • University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, BA, Political Science, minors in Economics, Russian and Ukrainian (2021)
    • James B. Angell Scholar
    • Pi Sigma Alpha
    • University Honors

Admissions

  • Georgia
  • Florida
  • Florida Supreme Court
  • Superior Court of Fulton County

Clerkships

  • Law Clerk, the Honorable Chief Judge Ellis-Monro, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia (2024 - 2026)

Practice Areas

Industries

  • Florida Bar Tax Section Member
  • ABA and Forum Committee on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law Member
  • U-M Club of Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Member