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EB5 Investors Magazine is pleased to announce the Top 15 Corporate Attorneys of 2024. To be eligible, distinguished attorneys must primarily draft offering documents for EB-5 financing.
Shae Armstrong
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Shae Armstrong is a partner at Bradley Arant Boult & Cummings, LLP. His practice focuses on project finance with an emphasis on EB-5 financing. He has represented sponsors in over $6 billion projects. Armstrong has advised U.S. House and Senate offices, committees of the U.S. Congress, and policy and industry trade groups on EB-5 regulations. His work has been cited in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Guardian, The Hill, The Real Deal, EB5 Investors Magazine, and the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists.
Rogelio Carrasquillo
Carrasquillo Law Group
Rogelio “Roy” Carrasquillois the managing shareholder of Carrasquillo Law Group and Chair of its EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Services and Compliance and Securities Practices. He has been providing strategic guidance and advice to clients in a variety of complex and sophisticated legal transactions for over 20 years. Carrasquillo represents public and private clients using EB-5 as a source of capital, filing for EB-5 regional center designation, investors evaluating their options at the redeployment stage, and developers seeking to raise capital using the EB-5 Program. He is also experienced with public-private partnership projects using EB-5 funds, Opportunity Zones, and Tax Credits.
William Cornelius
Torres Law
William Corneliusis an attorney at Torres Law, P.A. With nearly a decade of experience in transactional law, he is focused on the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. He works closely with regional centers, projects, and issuers, guiding them through corporate structuring, compliance with migration broker regulations, and the offering process. Cornelius’ expertise is aimed at enhancing marketability and ensuring successful funding outcomes. He holds a law degree from Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad Law Center and is an active member of the Florida Bar.
Catherine DeBono Holmes
JMBM
Catherine De Bono Holmes is the chair of JMBM’s Investment Capital Law Group. With over 40 years of legal experience at JMBM, she specializes in helping real estate developers, business owners, brokers, and investment managers secure and manage investment capital from U.S. and international investors. DeBono has represented numerous EB-5 offering sponsors and developers, facilitating financing for projects such as hotels, multi-family residences, assisted living facilities, and mixed-use developments across the U.S. She also advises private investment fund managers and securities broker-dealers on regulatory compliance and business transactions.
Ronald Fieldstone
Saul Ewing
Ronald R. Fieldstone is partner and chair of Global Immigration and Foreign Investment Practice at Saul Ewing, LLP. His practice focuses primarily on real estate, corporate/securities, and taxation law. Fieldstone has actively served as corporate/securities counsel for multifaceted industries involving the EB-5 immigrant visa investor offerings. He represents developers and regional centers in EB-5 matters, handling over 400 EB-5 projects with a combined capital raise of over a billion.
Peter Fischer
Allen Matkins
Peter Fischer is a corporate and securities partner at Allen Matkins, where he focuses on helping clients navigate complex corporate, debt, equity, and finance matters across industries spanning real estate, technology, finance, entertainment, and media. Representing investors, developers, funds, joint ventures, private equity firms, lenders, entrepreneurs, family offices, and other sophisticated players, Fischer brings extensive experience and a solution-oriented approach to achieving client goals. He has strategically structured investment vehicles like joint ventures, partnerships, and funds for acquiring, developing, and disposing of properties across major asset classes.
Rohit Kapuria
Saul Ewing
Rohit Kapuriaisa partner and vice chair of Global Immigration and Foreign Investment Practice at Saul Ewing, LLP. His practice focuses on corporate securities and EB-5 immigration, representingEB-5 lenders, borrowers, banks, regional centers, real estate developers, and migration brokers. He has worked on over 350 EB-5 transactions, with a combined capital development cost of over$6 billion. For the last five years, he has actively worked to develop the Indian and Gulf countries’ EB-5 markets, frequentlytraveling and making presentations to audiences there. He is an Illinois State Bar member and IIUSA’s Investor Markets Committee member.
Charles Kaufman
Lexcuity
Charles Kaufman is a shareholder at Lexcuity, PC. With more than 25 years of experience in helping clients create, finance and govern their businesses, he regularly advises developers, entrepreneurs and regional centers seeking to raise capital through the EB-5 investor visa program and meeting the new compliance standards of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act. In addition to EB-5, Kaufman’s fintech practice includes clients offering innovative digital securities and listing securities on SEC-regulated alternate trading systems.
Andrew Kingston
Kingston Petersen
Andrew Kingstonis a managing memberof Kingston Petersen, PLLC. Kingston has acted as EB-5 securities and corporate counsel since 2009. He provides counsel in private placements of securities intended to qualify under the United States EB-5 immigrant investor program. Kingston served as general counsel to private and publicly traded companies and was a founding partner ofNNDKP, one of the largest law firms in Southeastern Europe. He taught Corporate Finance in Emerging Markets at Cornell Law School and was a law clerk to Harold M. Fong, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in Hawaii.
Debbie Klis
Rimon Law
Debbie Klisis a partner at Rimon, PC. Her practice focuses on investment funds, securities, and capital markets experience, particularly on private equity funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, real estate funds, EB-5 funds, QOZ funds, and large master-feeder structures. She has worked with sponsors on SPAC IPOs and related de-SPAC transactions since 2008. Her EB-5 expertise involves representing real estate developers, project sponsors, and regional center owners from coast to coast on projects involving casinos, hotels, resorts, mixed-use commercial, mixed-use residential (including some with LIHTC), construction of single-family homes, condominiums, manufacturing facilities, shipping, historic renovations with tax credits, and more.
Jeffrey Myers
JMBM
Jeff Myers is a partner in JMBM’s Real Estate Department and the Global Hospitality Group®. With more than 18 years of experience, Myers focuses on developing, acquiring, operating, and financing hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, and other hospitality properties both domestically and internationally. Myers advises clients on management, franchise, licensing, branding agreements, restaurant leases, management agreements, celebrity chef contracts, and joint ventures. He represents clients in all facets of debt and preferred equity financing and has participated in $350M+ in EB-5 financing for various projects.
Max Rawn
Allen Matkins
Max Rawn is a senior counsel in the Los Angeles office and a member of the Commercial Finance and Real Estate practices at Allen Matkins, LLP. He represents lenders and borrowers with a wide range of financing transactions, including construction loans, mezzanine loans, commercial mortgage loans, secured and unsecured syndicated loans, letters of credit, asset-based loans, factoring arrangements, and EB-5 loans. He also advises banks and other financial institutions in loan workouts and restructurings and lenders and borrowers on bankruptcy, foreclosure, and other collections litigation matters.
David Sudeck
JMBM
David A. Sudeck is a senior member of JMBM’s Global Hospitality Group and the Real Estate Department. He represents owners in the purchase and sale, development, construction, financing, leasing, and sale-leaseback of properties, advisingthem also on their branding and management agreements, including hotel management and franchise agreements. He has helped hotel developers source over $1 billionin EB-5 financing. Sudeckhas significant experience in real estate finance and represents several financial institutions and EB-5 lenders as special counsel to their hospitality interests.
John Tishler
Sheppard Mullin
John Tishleris a partner and Practice Group Leader of the Corporate and Securities Practice Group at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, leading the firm’s EB-5 Project Finance team. His practice focuses on corporate governance, capital markets, corporate finance, business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and technology. Tishler’s clients include EB-5 fund managers, developers, regional centers, and other EB-5 intermediaries. His projects have included nationally recognized hotels, entertainment facilities, energy, mixed-use, and residential developments.
Osvaldo Torres
Torres Law
Osvaldo F. Torresis partner at Torres Law, PA. With 36 years of expertise, he specializes in managing complex transactional corporate matters, including private and public offerings and financing. Additionally, he is actively involved in IIUSA’s Leadership, Public Policy, and Nominations Committees and chairs its Editorial Committee. He is also a founding member of the EB-5 SEC Roundtable, which consists of top securities attorneys in the EB-5 industry. Torres is frequently invited to speak at EB-5 conferences on securities issues.
EB5Investors.com Staff
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Max Rawn is a senior counsel in the Los Angeles office and a member of the Commercial Finance and Real Estate practices at Allen Matkins, LLP. He represents lenders and borrowers with a wide range of financing transactions, including construction loans, mezzanine loans, commercial mortgage loans, secured and unsecured syndicated loans, letters of credit, asset-based loans, factoring arrangements, and EB-5 loans. He also advises banks and other financial institutions in loan workouts and restructurings and lenders and borrowers on bankruptcy, foreclosure, and other collections litigation matters.
