Your counsel
One firm, accountable for both sides of the move
Privello is the European-facing firm of Patrick Smith, a U.S. attorney who built it around a single conviction: a European company expanding into the United States shouldn't have to stitch together its immigration and data-protection advice from firms that never speak to each other.
Patrick Smith
A U.S. practice for European businesses
Patrick Smith is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas, United States. Through Privello, he advises European companies — with particular fluency in the Nordics, DACH, and the wider EU/EEA — on the two legal challenges that always travel together when they expand westward: moving people under U.S. immigration law, and keeping data lawful under GDPR and the transatlantic transfer regime.
The model is deliberate. Privello keeps engagements closely held, so your immigration and data-protection strategy are designed as a single plan rather than split across firms that never speak to each other. Where a matter calls for it, Privello draws on of-counsel attorneys and coordinates qualified local counsel wherever foreign law governs — and is candid about the line between U.S. work it delivers directly and foreign law it does not practice.
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Let's talk about your move
Bring the expansion you're planning — the people and the data. We'll map the U.S. immigration and data-protection steps together in a first conversation.