Managing Partner Michael Wildes and Senior Attorney Caroline Gabela-Monteiro are proud to announce the approval of the petition filed on behalf of Tim Levy, a renowned entrepreneur with more than three decades of experience investing in entertainment, technology, and finance.
Tim Levy has demonstrated a proven track record in founding and scaling businesses, leveraging deep industry relationships and cutting-edge technology to drive growth and innovation. He is credited with over £1 billion in total equity returns on 19 ventures founded or co-founded. Mr. Levy is a prolific venture investor, widely revered for his backing over 80 early-stage companies and seeing them through to success. He began his career in 1989 at Guidehouse Insurance Brokers, which later became Christchurch Insurance Brokers, advising clients on insurance for natural catastrophes. By 1997, at age 27, he founded Factor 8 Films, completing £200m in film financing transactions. Levy went on to found Future Film Group in 1999, where he managed over £6 billion in film financing and production deals, including major franchises like Jurassic Park and Pirates of the Caribbean. He also had significant ventures in renewable energy, real estate, and financial services, including co-founding Novia Financial and Aramid Capital Partners. He led Safiro, a real estate investment company in Montenegro, and was the largest shareholder in Immersive Escapes, a live entertainment company. In 2018, Levy founded Twyn Holdings, an AI-driven platform that offers interactive, pre-recorded content experiences, and is commercially launching with a partnership with Lionel Messi. With a history of successful ventures and groundbreaking projects, Levy continues to lead innovation in entertainment and technology.
Wildes & Weinberg was founded in 1960 by Senior Partner, Leon Wildes. Nearly three quarters of a century later, the firm continues to concentrate its practice in all aspects of U.S. immigration and nationality law, servicing the immigration requirements of prominent American and International firms, banks, industrial, financial, and manufacturing concerns, as well as law firms in connection with the personnel needs of their foreign national employees.
In addition, the firm has a distinguished clientele and has done substantial immigration work for performing artists, directors, writers, models, actors/actresses, athletes, fine artists, art dealers, curators, and literary agents. Most notable was Leon Wildes’ successful representation of former Beatle John Lennon and his artist wife, Yoko Ono in their deportation proceedings, the basis of which has inspired legislation, and has been portrayed in films, plays, and literary works worldwide. Some of the firm’s other distinguished clients include scholar Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (z”l), as well as soccer icon Pele, Master Chef Jean-Georges, musicians Sinead O’ Connor and Boy George, as well as First Lady Melania Trump and her family.
Michael Wildes, the firm’s Managing Partner, is also currently serving his fifth term as Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, is the author of Safe Haven in America: Battles to Open the Golden Door (which draws on over a quarter of a century of his practice in the immigration field), is an Adjunct Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, and serves as Counsel to Lincoln Center and several international/corporate law firms.
Despite difficulties currently being encountered in dealing with U.S. immigration authorities, the firm has maintained an extraordinary track record for success in its cases. The firm’s litigation group has expanded its efforts in filing Mandamus Actions and other Actions in Federal Courts throughout the nation.
In addition, Wildes & Weinberg’s multilingual staff is spread throughout its offices in New York City, Englewood, New Jersey, Miami, Florida, and by appointment only in Los Angeles, California and Tel Aviv, Israel, and are known for their experience and special expertise in processing each foreign national’s case with nothing less than the highest level of professionalism.
For more information on our firm please visit www.wildeslaw.com or contact Michael Wildes at michael@wildeslaw.com.