A state trial court judge entered a direct verdict that initially appeared to put to rest an over half-decade-long dispute between two South Florida real estate heavyweights that collectively cost millions of dollars to litigate.

In the litigation, Sean Burstyn, the Miami-based lead attorney for developer Ugo Colombo’s Gables Investment Holdings LLC, successfully faced off against Raoul G. Cantero III, a partner at White & Case in Miami and a former Florida Supreme Court justice.