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JMBM’s Investment Capital Law Group is pleased to announce that Catherine DeBono Holmes, Chair of the Group, will participate as a panelist for PLI’s 21st Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute.

Date:   November 7-8, 2019
Place:  Live in San Francisco or via Webcast

Cathy will participate on the panel focusing on Opportunity Zone Real Estate investments. The panel will cover:

  • How to structure a Qualified Opportunity Fund
  • The tax benefits of Opportunity Zones
  • Guidance on the Opportunity Zone program – what we know, what we don’t know, and what else is coming

Click here for more information, or to register.

PLI programs offer CLE credit in all U.S. jurisdictions that have mandatory CLE requirements and some foreign jurisdictions with CPD requirements. Please check www.pli.edu/credit for details.

 

Cathy HolmesCatherine DeBono Holmes is the chair of JMBM’s Investment Capital Law Group, and she has practiced law at JMBM for over 30 years.  She has also worked as a senior member of the JMBM Global Hospitality Group and JMBM Chinese Investment Group. Within the Investment Capital Law Group, she helps real estate developers and business owners, brokers, investment advisers and investment managers raise and manage investment capital from U.S. and non-U.S. investors. She has acted as lead counsel on numerous hotel, residential and mixed-use developments and transactions in the U.S., Europe, China, South America and Asia Pacific regions, as well as hotel management and franchise agreements and public-private hotel developments. She has also represented private investment fund managers, registered securities broker-dealers and investment advisers on securities offerings, business transactions and regulatory compliance issues. She is a frequent speaker and author on a range of topics related to capital raising transactions, including EB-5 financing and Opportunity Zone financing. Cathy can be reached at CHolmes@jmbm.com.

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JMBM and AAEB5 Announce New Publication on EB-5 Financing and U.S. Securities Laws

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) and Advantage America EB5 Group are pleased to announce the publication of Regional Centers & Sponsors and U.S. Securities Laws: How to evaluate broker-dealer, investment company and investment adviser registration requirements.

“When it comes to the EB-5 investment market, the SEC provides clear guidance in some areas and very little in others,” said co-author Catherine DeBono Holmes, Chair of  JMBM’s Investment Capital Law Group. “The information in this publication covers the complex compliance issues associated with EB-5 offerings.”

Written in response to hundreds of queries received from EB-5 professionals and developers, the articles in the 30-page booklet were first published as a four-part series on the Investment Law Blog.

“Regional Centers and project sponsors are right to be concerned with complying with U.S. securities laws,” said co-author Victor T. Shum, CEO of Advantage America EB-5 Group. “Violations come with penalties that can jeopardize both the project and its investors, so the EB-5 investment must be structured properly.”

Holmes and Shum each have significant experience as securities counsel on a wide range of investments – both public and private – and have many years of experience in the EB-5 arena, representing numerous clients on projects funded in part through EB-5 financing.

Click here to download a copy of the booklet on EB-5 Financing and U.S. Securities Laws.