Stearns Weaver Miller Names Six New Shareholders in 2025

September 9, 2025

Firm Announcements

MIAMI, FL — Stearns Weaver Miller announced that Ryan M. Bogatz, Matthew E. W. Bryant, Ricardo C. Fraga, Felicia L. Kitzmiller, Kevin Reali and Amanda L. Spencer  have been promoted to Shareholders. The newest Shareholders span the Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Tallahassee and Coral Gables offices and have wide-ranging practices.

Ryan Bogatz (Fort Lauderdale | Real Estate) focuses his practice on reviewing, negotiating, and advising clients on all aspects of commercial leases. His experience also includes negotiating and drafting various transactions, including asset, membership interest and stock purchase agreements. View full bio here.

Matthew “Matt” Bryant (Tallahassee | Administrative & Regulatory) has over a decade of experience representing applicants in procurement litigation before Florida’s State Agencies with a focus on bid protests. He represents clients in civil and commercial litigation and all aspects of administrative and regulatory law, including professional licensing issues, rule challenges, and public procurement. View full bio here.

Ricardo “Richey” Fraga (Coral Gables | Real Estate) represents developers and institutional lenders in a broad range of real estate matters, with a particular focus on the sale, acquisition and financing of commercial properties such as office buildings, apartment buildings, industrial parks and retail shopping centers. He also provides representation in connection with a variety of commercial real estate transactions, including leasing and property development. View full bio here.

Felicia Kitzmiller (Tallahassee | Environmental & Natural Resources and Land Use & Zoning) practices at the intersection of environmental, land use, and real estate law on projects ranging from single-family docks and agricultural easements to mines, marinas, and energy facilities. View full bio here.

Kevin Reali (Tampa | Land Use & Zoning) represents national and local developers and property owners before local, state, and federal governments on land development issues and counsels those clients on transactional real estate matters for multi-family commercial, industrial, hotel, master planned and mixed-use projects. View full bio here.

Amanda “Mandy” Spencer (Fort Lauderdale | Medical Malpractice & Professional Liability Defense) focuses her practice on medical malpractice defense for healthcare institutions and practitioners, as well as premises liability defense. View full bio here.