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Jorge L. Piedra

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Managing partner of Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton; counsel for respondent Benworth Capital Partners in the JAMS arbitration and in Benworth's petition to vacate the award.

Identity and role

Jorge L. Piedra is managing partner of Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton. The firm's profile describes him as a Miami trial lawyer focused on complex, high-stakes "bet-the-company" litigation.

Pandemic-relief / PPP-EIDL role

He represented respondent Benworth Capital Partners, LLC in the JAMS arbitration (the award summary we have does not list counsel, his role is documented by the N.D. Cal. petition to vacate). After the award, Benworth moved to overturn it: the August 7, 2024 complaint/petition to vacate in Benworth Capital Partners, LLC v. Oto Analytics, LLC, No. 3:24-cv-04840-AMO (N.D. Cal.), carries Piedra (Florida Bar No. 88315) of Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton on the signature block, with Girard Sharp LLP as San Francisco co-counsel, as attorneys for Benworth.

The dispute concerned PPP lender-service-provider agreements, SBA lender fees, file access, fraud defenses, and whether Womply's fees were lawful and enforceable under PPP rules. The corrected award ran to roughly $117.9 million in Womply's favor (see the Benworth profile).

Their own relief

No personal PPP loan or government-support issue was found. His relevance is representation of a PPP lender in litigation over PPP-derived fee economics.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

Kozyak Tropin lists Piedra as managing partner, and the Chambers and Florida Bar captures corroborate the practice description and the bar number used in the federal filing.

Piedra is the Benworth-side counterpart to Willkie's team for Womply: Alexander L. Cheney and Stuart R. Lombardi represented OTO Analytics/Womply. On the Benworth side, Bernardo Navarro and Claudia Navarro were the company's co-owners. The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco later intervened as a separate creditor in the related Puerto Rico docket, represented by Lisa M. Schweitzer of Cleary Gottlieb.

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