New York Private Equity Network Real Estate Seminar
Pictured are Sylvia Sobczyk, left, and Kate Kalmykov, right.

Greenberg Traurig EB-5 Immigration shareholder Kate Kalmykov and Real Estate shareholder Kristen Lonergan recently presented at the New York Private Equity Network – Real Estate “EB-5 Funding for Real Estate Development” seminar and networking reception hosted in the Greenberg Traurig New York office. More than 70 attendees represented companies from the private equity, real estate, accounting and insurance industries, among others. Kate and Kristen discussed trends and issues that are currently impacting EB-5 and real estate, including:

  • EB-5 funding as a replacement for traditional debt or private equity
  • Pooled EB-5 investments for small, medium and large real estate developments
  • Requirements of the EB-5 Program and considerations for developers
  • Best construction practices to ensure a successful EB-5 raise
  • Structuring EB-5 funding vehicles and EB-5 loans
  • Recent experiences in EB-5 projects and an EB-5 market outlook

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Kate Kalmykov Co-Chairs the Immigration & Compliance Practice. She focuses her practice on business immigration and compliance. She represents clients in a wide-range of employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa matters including students, trainees, professionals, managers and executives, artists and entertainers, treaty investors

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Kate Kalmykov Co-Chairs the Immigration & Compliance Practice. She focuses her practice on business immigration and compliance. She represents clients in a wide-range of employment based immigrant and non-immigrant visa matters including students, trainees, professionals, managers and executives, artists and entertainers, treaty investors and traders, persons of extraordinary ability and immigrant investors.

Kate has deep experience working on EB-5 immigrant investor matters. She regularly works with developers across a variety of industries, as well as private equity funds on developing new projects that qualify for EB-5 investments. This includes creation of new Regional Centers, having projects adopted by existing Regional Centers or through pooled individual EB-5 petitions. For existing Regional Centers, Kate regularly helps to prepare amendment filings, file exemplar petitions, address removal of conditions issues and ensure that they develop an internal program for ongoing compliance with applicable immigration regulations and guidance. She also counsels foreign nationals on obtaining greencards through either individual or Regional Center EB-5 investments, as well as issues related to I-829 Removal of Conditions.

Kate also works with various human resources departments on I-9 employment verification matters as well as H-1B and LCA compliance. She regularly counsels employers on due diligence issues including internal audits and reviews, as well as minimization of exposure and liabilities in government investigations.

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