In Miami, Lawyers Making More Trips to Cuba

This month, the online travel service Airbnb started offering more than 1,000 properties for rent in Cuba. That may be helpful to U.S. attorneys, many of whom are traveling to Havana lately.

“We went down to Havana in late February and have soft plans to return in May, if not April,” said Andy Fernandez, a Holland & Knight partner in Miami who leads the Cuba Action Team at his firm.

Fernandez said that President Obama’s announcement in December that U.S. will normalize relations and ease economic sanctions against Cuba has created opportunities for companies although there are still obstacles to investing there.

For instance, ...