At John Neil Guzman Esq., PLLC, I offer tailored legal consulting and advisory services across key practice areas, including employment law, immigration law, business law, and strategic legal consulting for foreign firms. My practice focuses on providing innovative solutions to complex legal challenges, particularly in cross-border and high-stakes scenarios.Cross-Border Expertise: Lead international legal teams in complex commercial litigation, ensuring compliance with US and Brazilian legal frameworks.Strategic Planning: Craft litigation strategies and risk assessments aligned with client objectives, minimizing risk while achieving business goals.Persuasive Advocacy: Conduct comprehensive legal research and draft motions, briefs, and settlement agreements that achieve successful outcomes.Effective Negotiation: Negotiate favorable settlements and facilitate dispute resolution through mediation and arbitration, prioritizing client success.

• Successfully closed deals with law firms of various sizes, consistently meeting and exceeding performance goals. • Developed and implemented lead generation strategies that significantly increased qualified leads and improved sales conversions. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product and marketing, to ensure seamless onboarding, customer success, and incorporation of client feedback into the product roadmap. • Demonstrated strong consultative selling skills by identifying client pain points and providing tailored solutions. • Leveraged Salesforce, Gong, Outreach, and ZoomInfo to manage and track sales activities and pipeline, improving overall efficiency and productivity. • Delivered product demos and presentations to prospective clients, driving high conversion rates.

Manage business immigration needs of firm's international clientele with specific emphasis on H-1B, L-1, J-1 and B-1 visas along with PERM labor certifications and E-B1 filings for investors and entrepreneurs seeking to open business within the U.S.

• Advise and assist Fragomen team serving enterprise level clients and global mobility teams by executing immigrant and non-immigrant visa regimes for 1000’s of employees.• Coordinate with attorneys, tech teams and paralegals to assemble NIV and IV applications including multinational manager petitions (EB-1C), I-140 downgrade requests, intracompany transferees (L1) petitions, and STEM applications and PERM labor certifications.

• Managed full docket of nearly 300 high-risk clients including detainees facing imminent deportation and family break-up with creative legal solutions including deportation defense and business-based visas through submissions and court representation.• Implemented case-management system and coordinated team of 5 paralegals to improve client retention and satisfaction rate with monthly check-ins, client surveys, and obtaining referrals for over 1000 active cases.• Consulted clients, diagnosed legal issues, prepared clients for interviews and court testimony while filing affirmative cases for family and business-based relief including Asylum, PERM, Cancellation of Removal and providing real-time advice to clients and families in the face of arrests, deportation, criminal situations and emergency situations within and outside the U.S.

High growth fin-tech startup providing over $20MM in lending capital and software platforms for power-sport dealerships• Oversaw Octane’s Marketplace Business Development & Customer Success managing over 1,300 dealerships, 20 partnered lenders, OEM’s, and various insurers by strengthening relationships, defining metrics, developing new customer training sessions and maximizing usage.• Gathered and distilled customer responses for tech team and prioritized initiatives to improve UX, teamed with sales to onboard new customers, and partnered with Marketing to generate email campaigns, content, and drive engagement.• Strategized with lending partners to (a) increase dealership funnel (b) drive dealer activation on platform and (c) improve methods of tracking and onboarding over 200 new dealerships.• Created and implemented compliance program and best practices to satisfy all federal and state regulations and advised on legal issues raised by consumer protection laws, new business verticals and existing practices.• Managed multiple work streams including outside legal counsel, accountants, and business partners to complete state exams, file taxes, monitor payments and resolve questions of IP, general corporate governance and real estate law.

Plaintiff-side law firm specializing in class action litigation and securities law• Prepared and executed class-action suit to recover over $10B in investor losses from global Brazilian energy giant, company executives, and politicians for corruption and money laundering. • Collaborated with team to prepare depositions that inculpated several key executives, secured class-action certification and defeated summary judgment motion.

Leading Italian D.O.C. (Denominazione d'Origine Controllata) cheese producer and distributor• Liaised with food import consultants and government agencies and implemented internal procedures to prepare for exports into the US by managing labeling compliance, substantiating product claims, and working cross-functionally with fulfillment, marketing and operations to meet SOP standards under the Foreign Supplier Verification Program.• Brokered deals with distributors to enter North American market, advised on trade regulations, applicable FDA/USDA statutes and negotiated sales agreements with two US food service vendors producing over $500k annual revenue.

• Conducted legal research, shaped case strategy and served as multi-lingual interpreter for clients engaged in complex multi-million-dollar anti-trust, intellectual property and commercial litigation.

• Prepared petitions for Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Visas. • Researched, drafted and filed I-212 and I-601A "Waiver" Petitions for Permission to Reapply for Admission into the United States, and coordinated filings for temporary visa issuance. • Second-sat managing partner during client interviews and supported senior attorneys in communication with foreign United States’ consulates.