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Mr.
Raymond Ku, Chairman, Westlead Group of Companies (Taiwan/China)

Mr Ku has over 20 years of experience in immigration business
business. He is the founder of the Westlead group of
companies (“Westlead”). Since 1988, the companies specialize
in to assisting applicants with immigration processing,
overseas career building, overseas investing,
overseas real
estate consulting and education planning. To date,
Westlead has more than 100 agents around the world. Our
headquarter is in
Taipei
and we have other offices in
China and
Singapore, we provide full services to agents and
clients. Over the years, Westlead has promoted many successful
immigration investment programs in the Asian market and
maintains a strong relationship with immigration government
authorities. Westlead currently represents, on average, about
200 families from
Taiwan
per year, and around 800 from China. Westlead is heavily
involved in Canadian and Singapore fund, we are Royal Bank of
Canada's Central of Influence and Mr. Ku is one of four Board
of Directors who represent Fortune Technology Fund in
Singapore. Since 1992, Westlead has promoted more than a dozen
investment-based programs for immigration to the United States
(EB-5), including the
Geneva
Ridge hotel-condominium project in
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and the
Holiday Inn in Imperial City, California. More
recently, we have promoted projects
including real
estate development and
gold mining
in the State of Idaho, two assisted living center projects,
one in
Peachtree City,
Atlanta
and another in
Punta Gorda, Florida, lastly we have a Westin hotel
and medical center
real estate development project in
Flushing, NY.
All of these successful projects have earned Westlead a strong
reputation in the Chinese market.
Westlink
Capital, Inc is affiliated with Westlead Capital, Inc forming
specifically for the purpose of raising EB-5 capital.
Topics: EB-5 Project Marketing in Asia and China
Mr. David Hirson, Partner &
Immigration Attorney
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy,
LLP
With
30 years experience in the practice of immigration law, Mr.
Hirson co-manages the Firm's Irvine office and is the partner in
charge of Fragomen's Consular Practice, which facilitates the
processing of U.S. nonimmigrant and immigrant visa applications
filed at U.S. Consulates and Embassies worldwide. He has been
certified as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by
the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization for
20 years. He has been retained by many high net worth
individuals in their immigration related investments in the
U.S. Mr. Hirson currently co-chairs Committee on Consular
Processing Southern California Chapter of AILA (American
Immigration Lawyers Association) and chairs on Congressional
Liaison Southern California Chapter of AILA. He alo served as
chairman of Investors Visa Committee of AILA.
Click to see Mr.
Hirson's detailed background information.
Topics: EB-5
Program Updates, Material Changes, Program Outlook
Mr. Michael Gibson, Managing Director, USAdvisors.org
Mr. Gibson is an EB-5 due diligence expert. He also operates
EB5info.com which provides information on the EB-5 visa program.
His firm has been recognized as EB-5 Media Service Provider of
the Year in 2010. Mr. Gibson also serves on the board of
directors with the Association to Invest in the USA (IIUSA).
His previous work experience was with Citicorp where he worked
in the Capital Markets and Investment Banking divisions as a
broker-dealer, securities, foreign exchange, derivatives, money
market, credit & debt analyst and portfolio risk manager. His
duties involved overseeing Citi's financial operations,
structuring financial instruments and hedging bank and client
risk and investments in emerging markets in Latin America,
Africa and the Middle East. In 2007 he established
USAdvisors.org as an organization to assist foreign nationals
with their EB-5 visa investment decisions. Topic: IIUSA, EB-5
Media, EB-5 Due Diligence
Miss Karen Caco, Partner & Immigration Attorney, Bernstein
Osberg-Braun & deMoraes
Miss Caco is a leading EB-5 Regional Center lawyer and Consular
Processing expert. She speaks around the world about US
immigration, EB-5 Regional Center investments and EB-5
Green Cards,
Business immigration and Consular Processing. She is the only
immigration attorney in the world to visit and film the various
Regional Centers in the United States and as a result is
extremely knowledgeable about the inner workings of Regional
Centers and their projects. Miss Caco assists investors from
all over the world with their EB-5
Green Card
applications and also helps form Regional Centers and
obtain USCIS designation approvals for them. She works with
corporations and individuals to plan their immigration
strategies and travels around the world to assist with both
immigrant and non-immigrant visa processing at the US Consulates
and Embassies. Miss Caco is admitted to practice before the
United States Supreme Court and is a member in good standing of
the
Florida Bar and the District of Columbia (DC). She has
served on the AILA
EB-5 committee and the executive committee for the IIUSA. She
has been interviewed many times by local and state newspapers on
immigration issues as well as
NBC and
ABC. Topic: EB-5 Visa Petitions and Worldwide Consular Processing
Mr. Roger A. Bernstein, Partner & Immigration Attorney, Bernstein
Osberg-Braun & deMoraes
Mr. Roger A Bernstein is a Florida Board Certified Immigration
attorney with fifteen years of practice devoted exclusively to
immigration law. He spent six years with the U.S. Department of
Justice serving as an INS trial attorney, sector counsel to the
INS' Inspections and Investigations Divisions and INS Asylum
Officer. Since co-founding Bernstein Osberg-Braun, LLC in 1998,
Mr. Bernstein has focused his practice on assisting immigrant
investors, acquiring employment based visas and complex
immigration litigation. Mr. Bernstein has represented and
counseled foreign governments, Fortune 500 companies and
large-privately held companies. He has also successfully
acquired non-immigrant visas and residency for hundreds of
individuals who desired to live and work in the United States. A
graduate of Brown University and the University of Miami School
of Law, Roger Bernstein serves on the Miami–Dade County
Enterprise Zone Advisory Council, the Board of the American
Jewish Committee, the Great Florida Bank Advisory Board and the
Florida Bar Immigration Certification Committee. He is admitted
to practice law in Florida, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Topic: EB-5 Visa Petitions and Worldwide Consular Processing
(with Karen Caco)
Mr. Kevin Wright, President,
Wright Johnson LLC
Mr.
Wright is considered one of the foremost experts on the EB-5
Immigration Visa program. As an accomplished researcher, analyst
and professional author, Kevin has assisted many entrepreneurs
in receiving Regional Center designation and subsequent approval
of the specific projects that are developed and put into
operation through the Regional Center mechanism. As an IMPLAN
software specialist, Kevin has authored numerous econometric
analysis, in many divergent industries, that demonstrate the
employment and economic impacts of these various projects to the
USCIS. The Regional Center application process requires Kevin to
have an expertise in business plan writing, private placement
composition, econometric analysis, complexities of government
reporting requirements all coupled with the “hands on”
experience necessary to successfully work within this highly
specialized industry. Wright Johnson LLC has filed over 20
regional center applications with USCIS with a 100% success rate
in the client receiving Regional Center designation.
Topics: EB-5 Regional Center Planning,
Formation, Project Development & Job Creation Requirements
Mr. Joseph McCarthy, Partner, McAdam & McCarthy
Mr. McCarthy’s primary
area of legal expertise is Immigration Law, including
all facets of EB-5 Regional Center and foreign
investor immigration applications. He is an active
member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association
(AILA) and has successfully received USCIS approval
for multiple EB-5 Regional Centers throughout the
United States. His legal practice also includes
International Law, Business Law, with an emphasis on
private placement memoranda (PPM) and
partnership/limited partnership agreements,
Litigation, Contract Negotiation and Environmental
Law. Before co-founding McAdam & McCarthy, Mr.
McCarthy's work experience included the Office of
Executive Policy for the Governor of the State of
Washington, several large international consulting
firms and the United States Geological Survey. Mr.
McCarthy is admitted to practice law before the
Supreme Courts of the states of Washington and
California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Western
District of Washington.
Topics: EB-5 Regional Center Planning,
Formation, Project Development & Job Creation Requirements
(with Kevin Wright)
Mr. Michael Homeier, Homeier & Law
Mr. Michael Homeier practices in the area of
general business, corporate, transactional, and
business
financing law. With roughly 25 years'
experience in the corporate and business transactional
field, both as in-house
corporate counsel and with
private
law firms, Michael brings a deep level of legal
knowledge and expertise to the EB-5 industry. Michael
represents a number of regional centers in the EB-5
program and assists them with the structuring of their
projects as well as the negotiation and drafting of
business and securities documents relevant to the EB-5
program, such as investor questionnaires, operating
agreements, limited liability agreements,
loan agreements, subscription agreements,
private placement memoranda (PPMS),
and escrow agreements. In addition to numerous
engagements as a
university law professor, Michael also actively
participates in public speaking engagements, both in
the EB-5,
business financing, and business
law arenas, and as an
inspirational speaker to teenaged and young
adult cancer survivors on post-treatment life success.
Michael received his J.D. from
University of Southern California and his B.A.
from The
University of California, Los Angeles. Michael
is a member of the
State
Bar of California.
Topics: EB-5 Regional Center Planning,
Formation, Project Development & Job Creation Requirements
(with Kevin Wright)
Mr. Jor Law, Homeier & Law
Mr. Jor Law practices corporate and business
transactional law in
Los
Angeles and is a founding shareholder of
Homeier & Law, P.C. In addition to his regular
practice of representing companies of all sizes and
individuals in the areas of finance, secured and
unsecured lending, mergers and acquisitions,
licensing, securities, venture capital, internet and
new media, technology, e-commerce, and other corporate
transactions, Jor routinely advises on corporate and
securities aspects of EB-5 related transactions. In
that capacity, Jor represents both investors looking
to invest through the EB-5 program as well as
businesses seeking capital through the EB-5 program
including through regional centers. Jor frequently
presents at EB-5 industry events, including those held
by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, State
Bar of California, and
Los Angeles County Bar Association. Previously,
Jor worked at some of the world's largest and most
prestigious law firms and ran a division within
one such firm. Jor received his J.D. from Columbia
University's School of Law in 2001 and his B.A. in
Rhetoric from The University of California, Berkeley
in 1998. Jor is a member of the
State
Bar of California and the State Bar of New
York. In December 2008, Mr. Law was named a "Best
Lawyer" by LegalForce. For two years in a row, in each
of 2009 and 2010, Jor was recognized by Super Lawyers
magazine as one of “Southern
California’s Super Lawyers – Rising Stars,”
placing him among the top 2.5 percent of the best
up-and-coming attorneys in
Southern California who are 40 years old or
younger, or who have been practicing for 10 years or
less.
Topics: EB-5 Regional Center Planning,
Formation, Project Development & Job Creation Requirements
(with Kevin Wright)
Mr. Brian Su, CEO & President,
Artisan Business Group, Inc.
Mr.
Su
is a leading expert and advisor on
marketing US investment projects and real estate properties in
Asia and China. Mr. Su has successfully introduced over thirty
US investment projects to China over the past two years, and
thousands of job creations commitment has been resulted as a
result of his efforts. Mr. Su has been assisting Chinese
corporations to seek real estate investment opportunities in the
U.S. He hosts U.S. investment seminars and conferences around
the country and in China. Mr. Su has been interviewed by Wall
Street Journal, Bloomberg/Newsroom, the
Christian Science Monitor, Reuters News, China Daily, China
Press, Financial Times, South Morning China Post, News Week and
other major media. Come, mingle and talk with Mr. Su to find
out how you can better position your investment projects in the
marketplace and effectively attract foreign investors; share
your thoughts and discuss your issues with Mr. Su one-on-one in
San Diego. Mr. Su is also a member of the Association to Invest
in the USA (IIUSA).
Topics: EB-5 Market Updates from China
Mr. Steve Qi, Partner, Law
Offices of Steve Qi & Associates
Educated
in law, journalism in the United States and World
Economy in China, Mr. Qi has a unique sense of
understanding and appreciation of the two
distinctively diverse universes, and his insights on
how the two countries would work together in business
and commerce have shaped the law firm’s practice in
the past, present and future. As China ascents to the
second largest economy in the world, its role in the
world economy has for ever changed. Throughout the
years of his practice, Mr. Qi has focused on areas of
immigration, business litigation and transaction, with
a clientele base overwhelmingly Chinese. Not only has
Mr. Qi successfully represented thousands of Chinese
immigrants in their petitions in EB1, EB2, EB3 and EB5
preferences, he has also prevailed in numerous
business litigation cases with values over several
million US dollars, not to mention millions of dollar
of mergers and acquisition deals he has helped put
together. The current surge in EB-5 has bestowed Mr.
Qi and his firm a unique opportunity to fully take
advantage of their expertise in immigration and
business laws. As a guest speaker, Attorney Qi
will focus on the topic of the impact of US-China
business and commerce, with an emphasis on how the
current EB-5 phenomenon will help shape the current
and future US-China business in the areas of business
investment and immigration. Topics: EB-5 Program's
Impact on China-US Business
VIP Guests - Chinese Migration Agents:
Mr. Lu Sun, Vice President, MasLink Group
Mr. John Jiang, U.S. Managing Director, Henry
Global
Mr. John Li, CEO, EB5Supermarket.com
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