Angelo L. Rosa, J.D., is licensed to practice law in Idaho and California; the US District Courts for the Districts of Idaho and Central, Eastern and Northern California; and the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
He holds a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was the recipient of the Carey McWilliams Award. He holds a J.D. from American University Washington College of Law.
His practice areas emphasize sophisticated corporate litigation as well as complex business and finance transactions. Angelo advises several energy and “green technology” companies and has served on turnaround teams for a number of start-up companies. Angelo is also a cited authority on corporate finance law and Islamic finance matters and has published several articles (both scholarly and practice-oriented) on those topics. Raised in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, Angelo speaks English, French and German and has a working knowledge of Arabic.
News and Publications
Contrariety: Divergent Approaches to State Subsidization of Shipbuilding in the US and the EU, 29 Tulane Maritime Law Journal, 187 (2005).
From Mecca to San Francisco: Harmonizing Shari‘a-Compliant Contract Remedies with California Law, 6 UC Davis Business Law Journal, 5 (2006).
Harmonizing Risk and Religion: The Utility of Shari‘a-Compliant Transaction Structuring in Commercial Aircraft Finance, 13 Minnesota Journal of Global Trade, 35 (2003).“Keeping the Faith: Advising Muslim Clients in Real Estate Transactions,” Los Angeles Lawyer, February 2005.
“Litigating Adult Claims of Childhood Sex Abuse,” Los Angeles Lawyer, September 2007.
Outpacing the Tempest: The Consequences of Basle II on Institutional Lending in Shipping Finance Transactions, 6 Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law, 91 (2004). (Note: Written with co-author Peter Measures.)
Published Opinions
Motevalli v. Los Angeles Unified School District, 18 Cal.Rptr.3d 562 (Cal. App. 4th 2004) (Note: Writing as amicus curiae.)
Ashford v. Culver City Unified School District, 29 Cal.Rptr.3d 728 (Cal. App. 4th 2005). (Note: Writing as prevailing appellant.)
Admissions
- Idaho
- California