Greenberg Traurig’s EB-5 group will sponsor and co-chair the third annual Southern California EB-5 Conference at the Balboa Bay Club & Resort in Newport Beach, California. The all-day conference will take place on July 21, 2014, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The conference will feature several panels addressing the latest developments of the EB-5 Program lead by industry leaders from regional centers, immigration and securities law firms, and leading EB-5 economists, among others. U.S. Congressman Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee with legislative oversight on the EB-5 visa program, will serve as keynote speaker. U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa will additionally discuss the EB-5 program and his proposed SKILLS Visa Act. The conference is designed in a manner to equally provide a wide-range of EB-5 related topics to those who are new to the industry or well-versed.

EB-5 attorneys Laura Reiff, Kate Kalmykov, Ali Brodie and Jennifer Hermansky will serve as moderators and/or panelists on various panels, including:

  • EB-5 Reform: Impacts of Proposed Legislation
  • EB-5 Financing for Hotel Developers
  • Introduction to EB-5 Marketing Overseas
  • International Differences in Source of Funds
  • EB-5 Securities Compliance & Broker Dealers: Commonly Overlooked Securities Issues

For more information about the conference, please click here.

 

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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

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.