Mr. Valla founded the Firm’s predecessor, Valla & Associates, Inc., P.C., in 2009. He focuses on the transactional and business litigation aspects of the Firm's practice, with a particular passion for its international clientele. Over the last decade, he led many of the practice’s most complex and rewarding engagements in the U.S. and abroad.

Mr. Valla is active in local and international business affairs and serves in fiduciary capacities, as well as a Director of many client companies, including ASG Superconductors USA, Inc. (medical devices), SIG Combibloc, Inc. (packaging machinery), and VIDA (an international medical resource foundation).

He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (Magna cum Laude), in Economics, from the University of San Francisco in 1986, and a Juris Doctor (with Honors), also from the University of San Francisco in 1988. He is the Representative in California for the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy (AMCHAM). He has been a member of AIGLI, an International Association of Italian Speaking Lawyers, for over two decades.