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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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