Meet Our Legal Team

Lisa M. Galvan, Esq.

For well over two decades, Lisa Galvan has been representing companies and high-net worth individuals who have been investing in U.S. enterprises.  She understands the unique challenges that foreign businesses, investors and entrepreneurs face when setting up a U.S. subsidiary, affiliate, or joint venture.  Her portfolio of clients includes U.S. start-up companies, foreign companies that acquire U.S. businesses, and foreign entrepreneurs that form, purchase or invest in an existing or expanded business. She knows the pressure such investors, entrepreneurs and employees endure when balancing the risk associated with the work visa or permanent residence application process with their business needs and often challenging timelines.  Having over 20 years of experience on such cases has endowed Lisa with a vision that allows her to guide her clients in a fashion where they can make the wisest decisions that allow them to navigate the immigration process with her guidance, and also account for the personal aspects of the immigration process like timing the application in a manner that the investor’s children can attend school or the spouse can obtain work authorization.

While Lisa has handled all visitor visa, employment-based work visas and employment-based permanent (green card) category cases that investors and entrepreneurs, and their key staff need, her particular core experience focuses on  B-1, E-2, E-1, L-1A, and L-1B work visa cases, and I-140 Multinational Manager/Executive Immigrant Petitions, PERM-based I-140 Immigrant Petitions, and I-485 and consular processing permanent residence cases.  She also possesses a very extensive background in counseling clients on immigration compliance such as I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, E-Verify, I-9 audits, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigation counseling.  This helps our corporate and investor clientele to complete the process in a fashion that anticipates the ever-present reality that an audit including an onsite investigation may occur and can reduce liability – and worry. Lisa’s representation of companies and individual clients in the investor and entrepreneur area runs the full gamut: she represents major name recognizable public traded companies as a lead attorney on E-2, L-1 and H-1B work visas, but also represents large and mid-size privately held companies. However, a sizeable part of Lisa’s investor and entrepreneur immigration clientele includes solo investor and entrepreneurs where their case is “super personal” – it is about starting their dream enterprise in the U.S. – whether it is a small equipment distributorship, niche manufacturer, restaurant, gas station, export business, software or IT service business, or business in any other industry.

Diane Cohen Haggiag, Esq.

Diane Cohen Haggiag, Esq. enjoys handling E-2 Investor Visas cases for a variety of companies.  She has particular experience in handling cases in the fashion industry (clothing and accessories), as well as the hospitality industry including restaurants, hotels, baking facilities and catering services.  Diane has successfully obtained E-2 status for essential employees of E-2 investors, an often-overlooked category which proves valuable for young professionals who would not otherwise meet temporary work visas criteria.  She has also helped entrepreneurs open businesses in diverse fields of activity such as retail stores, art galleries, hair salons, soccer training franchises and indoor entertainment venues.

Diane is the Managing Attorney of our Los Angeles office. Born and raised in France, Diane originally came to the U.S. on a student visa and after going through the H-1B, spouse of L-1 and permanent resident status processes, as well as naturalization, now holds dual U.S. and French citizenship.  She is fluent in Spanish, French, and English and has basic reading skills in Hebrew.

She earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School in New York and also holds a “Maîtrise” (Master’s Degree) in Corporate and International Law from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. After law school, Diane worked as a corporate associate at prominent international law firms (Debevoise & Plimpton in NY, Latham & Watkins in LA) where she worked on complex transactions such as mergers & acquisitions, private equity, project finance and IPOs.  Diane also handled pro bono cases at both firms including immigration law matters.

As a result of such experience, Diane decided to make a transition to immigration law.  She worked at a boutique immigration law firm in Los Angeles until an opportunity to become in-house General Counsel of a French fashion company came up.  During her tenure there, she was providing immigration advice to potential French immigrants and eventually decided to open her own immigration law practice.

Diane’s clients include small businesses and individuals, and her experience encompasses both immigrant and non-immigrant visas, family-based as well as employment-based applications.  She has managed a wide variety of cases in the following categories: E-2, F-1, J-1, H-1B, I-1, L1, O-1, EB1, EB3, as well as naturalization cases.

Diane was naturally drawn to immigration law.  As an immigrant herself, she understands her clients’ fears, manages their expectations and advocates for them to help them achieve their dreams. 

What she loves the most about immigration law is its multi-dimensional aspect: it transcends the legal interests of the client at stake and often translates into life-altering decisions for entire families; it seeks to safeguard national interests while it must take into account international and diplomatic relationships; it protects American workers and yet it recognizes in essence the need for cultural diversity and welcomes the economic contributions of foreigners.

Through immigration law, Diane is able to apply her knowledge of both of the world’s major legal systems: when she advises her European clients, she particularly enjoys explaining the U.S. legal concepts that they’re familiar with only through TV shows and that they’re highly afraid of.

In her free time, Diane enjoys traveling, biking, and skiing (the beauty of LA is that you can ski in the morning and go to the beach in the afternoon). Ever since moving to LA, her favorite hobby has become hiking the Malibu trails, where you can burn calories, suntan and admire gorgeous views all at once! Her favorite movies are Working Girl, Grease and The Music Box.  The books she found particularly moving are The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.  She enjoys listening to classical music and is an unconditional fan of Whitney Houston and Barbra Streisand.

Andres Marino Rosales, Esq.

Andres Marino is an Associate Attorney with Hammond Neal Moore. Andres’s focus is on Employment-based and Entrepreneurial visas.

Andres joined Hammond Neal Moore in June 2022. Born and raised in Venezuela, he practiced criminal and corporate law for over a decade. In 2017, he moved to Cincinnati to attend the University of Cincinnati College of Law’s Master of Laws Program. After he received his LLM, he permanently relocated to Cincinnati to pursue his Juris Doctor. During law school he clerked at a boutique law firm focused on family-based immigration and criminal law. While at UC Law, he also participated in the Entrepreneur Community Development Clinic, assisting local small businesses with business law related matters. After law school, he worked at Immigrant and Refugee Law Center assisting foreign individuals seeking asylum in the U.S.

Outside of work Andres enjoys hiking, working out, and rooting for the Cincinnati Reds and FC Cincinnati. He is an avid fan of UFC.