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Morgan Lewis’s immigration practice helps multinational employers to manage the full range of business-related immigration and global mobility needs. We combine the personalized service and individual attention of a boutique immigration practice with the international resources of one of the world’s largest law firms. Our practice is tightly integrated with our elite global labor and employment practice—allowing us to provide our clients with cohesive advice on all of their international employment and immigration issues and needs. Our immigration team members are part of a multidisciplinary global workforce team that collaborates to provide integrated cross-border advice, counseling, and strategic planning on all legal aspects of the global movement of personnel.

Our clients rely on our demonstrated ability to handle complex immigration matters regardless of jurisdiction. Beyond comprehensive, general business immigration services in the United States and the United Kingdom, we offer our corporate clients proficiency in several key immigration-related subspecialties—including non-US visas and work permits, foreign employment laws, British citizenship, taxation, compliance, personal immigration services, and the immigration consequences arising from corporate transactions. We offer experience in the immigration requirements and processes of more than 120 countries.

Chambers Review

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Immigration - USA - Nationwide
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Band 2
What the team is known for

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius is a full-service global firm with a well-known immigration practice, acting for a range of household names in sectors including technology, retail and financial services. The team delivers high end global business immigration services, together with employment and general corporate development advice. Its lawyers are noted for their US and non-US visa, PERM and compliance expertise.

Work Highlights

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  • Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP provided immigrations services to T. Rowe Price, managing their entire US-inbound portfolio as well as several C-suite and senior management relocations.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Eleanor Pelta
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Eleanor Pelta
1
Band 1

Eleanor Pelta is well regarded for handling a variety of business immigration matters for international corporations, including both temporary and permanent-resident visa applications. Her capabilities include advising on the immigration aspects of corporate transactions as well as immigration litigation.

"Eleanor is one of the top business immigration lawyers in the country. She has great advocacy tactics and a unique intellectual lens, seeing problems at both the macro and micro level."

"She is an excellent lawyer, very creative and thinks outside the box."

Eric S Bord
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Eric S Bord
3
Band 3

Eric Bord regularly represents high profile clients in the pharmaceutical, media and retail industries. His broad practice involves a focus on corporate immigration including I-9 compliance.

"I greatly admire Eric's professionalism and stewardship. He is quite simply stellar, bringing forth his years of knowledge and experience."

Shannon Donnelly
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Shannon Donnelly
4
Band 4

Shannon Donnelly regularly advises clients on immigration policy and compliance as well as visa program management for large businesses.

"Shannon understands the business objectives behind each problem and approaches legal solutions with those objectives squarely in mind."

Ranked Lawyers at
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USA - Nationwide

Immigration

Eleanor Pelta
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Eleanor Pelta
1
Band 1
Eric S Bord
3
Eric S Bord
3
Band 3
Shannon Donnelly
4
Shannon Donnelly
4
Band 4

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