Managing Partner Michael Wildes and Associate Attorney Josh Wildes are pleased to announce that Wildes & Weinberg P.C. has secured O-1 visa classification on behalf of Jon Bellamy, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jagex, the developer behind the RuneScape franchise. Mr. Bellamy is an experienced gaming industry executive and strategy leader who has built his career at the intersection of gaming, investment, and corporate strategy, with experience in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and commercial leadership. Prior to becoming CEO of Jagex in 2025, he served on Jagex’s Board and previously held executive roles at the company from 2015 to 2018 focused on strategy and growth. He then joined Huuuge Games, an international games developer and publisher, where he served as the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), where he played a key role in major acquisitions, publishing partnerships, and the company’s mobile-gaming expansion. Earlier in his career, he worked in venture capital at London Venture Partners, leading investment and deal processes for gaming companies and helping drive transactions valued from tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as an Investor and Advisor to multiple gaming companies, including Kohort, Gecko Games, Dream Games, and more.
Wildes & Weinberg was founded in 1960 by Senior Partner, Leon Wildes. He was best known for his successful representation of former Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono as they fought the Nixon Administration during a five year bitterly contested Deportation Proceeding.
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 and Karim Benzema, 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.
Josh Wildes, Leon’s grandson and Michael’s son, is a third-generation immigration lawyer in the firm who previously served as an Attorney Advisor for the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. He was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in immigration and oversees many of the firm’s gaming-related cases.
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.
In addition, Wildes & Weinberg’s multilingual staff is spread throughout multiple offices, with its HQ being in New York City, 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 Josh Wildes at josh@wildeslaw.com.