BY PRACTICE AREA
Serio, Robert F.‚ Gibson Dunn & Crutcher‚ New York‚
Bristor, Katherine M.‚ Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom‚
New York‚ 212-735-2338
Bronstein, Richard J.‚ Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison‚
New York‚ 212-373-3000
Brown, James R.‚ Willkie Farr & Gallagher‚ New York‚
212-728-8000
Bubel, Henry P.‚ Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler‚ New York‚
212-336-2615
Bunning, David W.‚ Greenberg Traurig‚ New York‚
212-801-9318
Burke, William L.‚ Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman‚ New York‚
212-858-1133
Cassanos, Robert‚ Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson‚
New York‚ 212-859-8278
MARIA FERNANDA GANDAREZ
FRAGOMEN, DEL REY,
BERNSEN & LOEWY, LLP
7 Hanover Square
New York, NY 10004-2756
PH: (212) 891-7570
FX: (212) 758-7215
mgandarez@fragomen.com
fragomen.com
IMMIGRATION
For over 20 years, Maria Fernanda Gandarez has been a US immigration lawyer practicing business immigration.
She has maintained a commitment to excellence and service while providing expert immigration advice to
multinational corporations throughout diverse industries. Maria’s representative clients include Chiquita, Credit
Agricole-CIB, Heineken, Hess, Highbridge Capital Management, J&D Advisors, Kenneth Cole, Mid-Ship Marine,
National Starch, Solucion Relo (Abengoa Solar), Toyota Financial, Valspar and Weil Gotshal.
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY
Leifer, Max D.‚ Max D. Leifer‚ New York‚ 212-334-9699 Pg. 113
Tilker, Barbara Doblin‚ Pasternack Tilker Ziegler Walsh
Stanton & Romano‚ Garden City‚ 516-742-3773 Pg. 98
Maria advises on acquisition of temporary employment visas and permanent residence, employer sanctions,
employment verification procedures, immigration-related discrimination practices and the consequences of
mergers and acquisitions and other corporate restructurings. She’s counseled a global firm on the immigration
consequences of the divestiture and sale of its billion-dollar consumer goods businesses, and assisted
the purchasing companies in regularizing the immigration status of their foreign national population. She
successfully registered a large Spanish biopharmaceutical company for E Treaty status to facilitate the transfer of
employees to the U.S. operations, and assisted several large multinational corporations on compliance audits.
TAX
Adams, J. Phillip‚ Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom‚
New York‚ 212-735-3280
Adelman, Charles M.‚ Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft‚
New York‚ 212-504-6477
Altamura, Anthony‚ Hahn & Hessen‚ New York‚ 212-478-7280
Prior to joining Fragomen, Maria was a senior attorney at Proskauer Rose, where she also represented clients in
administrative proceedings before various government agencies. At Rutgers Law, Maria was managing editor of
the Women’s Rights Law Reporter, editor of The Law Record and a judicial law clerk with U.S. District Court Judge
Harold A. Ackerman. Maria is admitted to several state bars and U.S. District Courts. She has authored several
articles and makes regular presentations on immigration topics. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
