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LOS ANGELES , CA 90071-1406
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Angelo Paparelli
Work Department
Immigration
Position
Partner
Career
Angelo Paparelli is a Partner in the Immigration Practice Group in Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s Downtown Los Angeles and New York City Offices. Angelo is a Certified Immigration Law Specialist (California) and a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers with experience in a wide array of sub-specialties of US immigration law, and a focus on employment- and investment-based immigration. He also serves as an expert witness and consultant on immigration issues arising in litigation, and as an advocate for due-process reforms to America’s immigration laws.
Angelo’s immigration practice areas include compliance reviews and employer defense in government investigations; counsel and due diligence in mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructurings; immigration-related federal court litigation under the Administrative Procedure Act; visas for executives, managers, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, scholars, knowledge workers, students and business visitors; employment-based immigrant visa petitions; retention of permanent residence and acquisition of citizenship; waivers and restorations of lapsed immigration status; white-collar immigration; global mobility; consular practice; immigration-related corporate policy formulation; legislative and regulatory advocacy; and asylum.
Angelo is also active in legal and regulatory issues involved in the deployment of blockchain technologies. His focus is on providing counsel to businesses concerned with blockchain-related legislation and agency rulemaking, the use of distributed ledger technology in government-mandated record creation and retention, and technology-driven efficiencies in immigration benefits requests and worksite compliance.
Languages
Conversational Farsi (Persian)
Conversational Italian
Memberships
Fellow, College of Labor & Employment Lawyers
Member of the State Bar of California, Michigan, New York, & D.C.
Founder, Member, and Former President of the Alliance of Business Immigration Attorneys
Education
JD, Wayne State University Law School
BA, University of Michigan
Leisure
Theatre, Creative Writing, Yoga, Meditation, and Fitness
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious