Good timing is a good way to describe the history of Miami-based Bilzin Sum­berg Baena Price & Axelrod.

Although the firm was founded in 1998, its first partners and earliest associates included real estate workout specialists who had cut their teeth during the savings and loan collapse of the 1980s. And as international dollars poured into South Florida during the 1980s and ’90s, Bilzin Sumberg positioned itself as a strong local firm with solid connections throughout Latin America.