Brian Su’s Orlando EB-5 Event is FRIDAY!

Guys, quick reminder: if you haven’t booked your seats for Orlando Friday, get busy.  Friday’s event is going to be the first the “Big Boys” (and “Big Girls”, of course!) EB-5 seminar ever, and it will hold a wealth of information for those of you who are beyond the “beginner phase” of EB-5 financing and logistics.While there is the usual impressive panel of speakers, the participation of Miami’s Ronnie Fieldstone of Arnstein & Lehr LLP is what will make this particular event invaluable for those of us who are NOT securities experts and who must wrestle with tangential securities issues as we service our EB-5 clients.  Ronnie is no run-of-the-mill securities guy: he’s been THE securities attorney for dozens of EB-5 Regional Centers and his experience in our sector is unparall…

Looking for a Few Good Florida EB-5 Projects…

I will soon be making a major announcement regarding the expansion of a Florida EB-5 Regional Center in which I am now a principal.   The RC, governed and administered by some of the most respected entrepreneurs and business leaders in the country,  will be going Florida-wide.  I have been given carte blanche to modify the RC, and will be doing so in keeping with the same spirit of fair-dealing with which I have governed my law firm for the past two decades.  Specifically, we are looking for projects which meet the following criteria:Project principals whose professional and financial backgrounds will withstand detailed due diligence scrutiny;Job-creation-driven projects in credible industry sectors located in TEAs or rural areas;Principals comfortable with our RC-…

Brian Su’s Orlando EB-5 Real Estate Finance Forum on Sept. 30

For those of you involved in anything EB-5, you know Brian Su as the man behind the most productive networking summits in our industry.  On September 30, Brian turns his attention to what may be the potentially greatest match-up in EB-5 history:  Chinese EB-5 venture capital for U.S. commercial development.It is no secret that Chinese investors are bullish on real estate.  According to the Asia-Pacific Wealth Report 2008 by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini, in 2007, a year that saw investors diversify into other assets against the backdrop of a booming stock market, high net-worth individuals in China allocated 21% of their assets to real estate, against a global average of 14%.  Fast forward to 2011 and the dual elements of a massive U.S. real estate inventory and nonexista…