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Greenberg Traurig Attorney Ali Brodie discusses the EB-5 program and the use of it in Colorado.

Greenberg Traurig Attorney Ali Brodie recently presented at the Council of Development and Finance Agencies (CDFA) 2015 Colorado Financing Roundtable Conference in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.  Brodie spoke on a panel titled “Making the Most of EB-5 in Colorado.”  As a co-panelist, she provided an overview of the EB-5 program and its significance as a financing tool for regional economic development.  She commented on the use of the program in Colorado and offered insight on the potential for utilizing the EB-5 program for future development projects in Colorado.  The conference featured economic development finance thought-leaders and experts from across the state of Colorado and was both attended and supported by dozens of Colorado development finance leaders.

The conference was sponsored by the CDFA in partnership with the Economic Development Council of Colorado (EDCC) and the Colorado Housing and Finance Agency (CHFA) with the endorsement by the Colorado Office Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT).  The CDFA is a national association boasting a membership of the country’s leading public, private, and non-profit development entities, with a focus on connecting development finance professionals to promote the advancement of development finance interests.

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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.