Arthur J. Furia has practiced law since 1980. A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania native born in 1953, he received his Bachelor degree in Business Administration in 1974 and his law degree in 1980 from Villanova University. Prior to his legal practice, he practiced for four years as a certified public accountant with the international public accounting firm of Ernst & Young in its Philadelphia office.
Mr. Furia serves as outside general counsel to a number of prominent Florida-based corporations. Mr. Furia’s areas of legal practice include corporate and business law; domestic and international business planning; mergers and acquisitions; partnership formation and joint ventures; venture and mezzanine equity raising and distribution and licensing and corporate governance for not-for-profit organizations.
Mr. Furia serves on the Board of Directors of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) based in Washington, D.C., is a member of its Executive Committee and General Counsel. He is the State of Florida representative for the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy (AMCHAM). Mr. Furia is the founding Board member for US of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana Foundation (Milan), founding Board.
He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce-Southeast since 1992, after serving as its president and honorary president. He is founding Chairman of the Primo Carnera Foundation, a not-for-profit organization aimed to help disadvantaged children in Italy and the United States.
Mr. Furia was designated “Cavaliere Ufficiale” by the President of the Republic of Italy in June, 2008 and was also named “Renaissance Man of the Year” by the Renaissance Historical Society of Florida.
Mr. Furia was invested into the Association of Master Knights of the Sovereign Order of Malta since 1992, a world-wide organization with long historical roots dedicated to serve the needs of the world’s sick and poor.
He has actively organized a number of economic and business trade missions to Italy over the past twenty years and has lectured at various business/trade seminars in Italy during that time. He also assisted in organizing a blue ribbon delegation of Florida business and governmental leaders on a business and trade development mission led by three Florida Governors dating back to 1988.
He serves on the Board of Directors for Miami Dade College Foundation, and serves as a member of its Executive Committee. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Furia has served on the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross in South Florida, the Board of Directors of Villanova University’s General Alumni Association, Villanova University’s Marketing & Public Policy Advisory Board and its Executive Education in Italy Program and Advisory Board. He has also served on the Board of Trustees for St. Thomas University, and the Board of Directors of the Florida Center for Theological Studies.
Mr. Furia taught as an adjunct professor in the graduate law program at both the University of Miami School of Law and at St. Thomas University Law School for International Business Transactions. He was a frequent lecturer in Central America for the Instituto Centroamericano de Administracion de Empresas (INCAE) on legal considerations for doing business in the United States and foreign investment.
Mr. Furia is a member of the Florida and Pennsylvania Bars, the American Bar Association Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law, a member of The Florida Bar Section of Corporation, Banking and Business Law, and its International Law Section. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America 2008-2011 and Florida Super Lawyers 2007-2010 and recently in Florida Trend “Must Know Contacts in Miami.”
Recognition
- Martindale Hubbell A-V Rated
- Designated Cavaliere Ufficiale al Merito della Republica Italiana (The Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy) in June 2008
- Invested into the Master Knights of Order of Malta American Association
- Renaissance Man of the Year by the Renaissance Historical Society of Florida
- The Best Lawyers in America, selected for inclusion 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
- Florida’s Super Lawyers, selected for inclusion 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
- Florida Trend's Florida Legal Elite, selected for inclusion 2006, 2011
- Florida Trend's "Must Know" Contacts in Miami, 2010
Education
- Villanova University, J.D. 1980
- Villanova University, B.S. 1974
Bar Admissions
- The Florida Bar
- The Pennsylvania Bar
Affiliations
- American Bar Association Sections of Corporation, Banking and Business Law
- The Florida Bar Sections of Corporation, Banking, Business and International Law
- American and Florida Institutes of Certified Public Accountants
- Miami-Dade College Foundation, Board of Directors, Executive Committee Member and Board Secretary
- Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Board of Governors
- National Italian-American Foundation (NIAF), General Counsel, Officer of Executive Committee, Member Board of Directors
- American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit
- Villanova University Marketing & Public Policy Advisory Board
- Villanova University Executive Education in Italy Program, Advisory Board
- Biblioteca Ambrosiana Foundation (Milan), Founding Board Member for United States
- American Chamber of Commerce in Milan, Italy, State of Florida Representative
- Italy-America Chamber of Commerce-Southeast, Past President, Honorary President and Board of Directors
- Primo Camera Foundation, Founding Chairman of the Board
- New World Symphony, Member of Board of Directors, 2001-05
- St. Thomas University, Member of Board of Trustees, 1996-2005
- South Florida Center for Theological Studies, Board of Directors, Member, 2000-08