TOP CORPORATE ATTORNEYS
WILLIAM CORNELIUS
ROBERT DIVINE
TORRES LAW
William Cornelius is an attorney at Torres Law , P . A ., specializing in corporate and securities law matters . He has extensive transactional law experience and has helped clients navigate complex corporate and securities transactions , including hotel , multi-family , senior living , franchising and other development projects . Over the past nine years , Cornelius has been actively engaged in the EB-5 arena , representing regional centers , projects and issuers through the corporate structuring , migration broker and offering processes to maximize marketability , compliance and funding success . Cornelius is also a frequent author on EB-5 matters and serves as a member of IIUSA ’ s Editorial Committee .
BAKER DONELSON
Robert C . Divine chairs the immigration group of Baker Donelson with offices in 24 U . S . cities , including Washington , D . C . He served from 2004 through 2006 as the chief counsel and , for a time , the acting director of USCIS . Divine is the author of “ Immigration Practice ,” a 1,600-page practical treatise on all aspects of U . S . immigration law . He served for seven years as a vice president of IIUSA , an industry association for EB-5 regional centers . He represents EB-5 developers , regional centers and individual foreign investors , balances immigration and securities considerations , and litigates when necessary .
RONALD FIELDSTONE
SAUL EWING
Ro n a l d R . Fieldstone , chair and partner of Saul Ewing LLP ’ s Global Immigration and Foreign Investment Practice , routinely serves as corporate / securities / real estate counsel in EB-5 immigrant investor offerings for an array of industries . Both developers and regional centers rely on his advice in these deals , resulting in his track record of handling more than 500 EB-5 projects with a combined capital raise in excess of $ 8 billion . He is chair of the firm ' s Opportunity Zones and Qualified Opportunity Funds Practice . Fieldstone received his MBA from the Wharton School of Business and his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania .
CATHERINE DEBONO HOLMES
JMBM
Catherine DeBono Holmes is the chair of JMBM ’ s Investment Capital Law Group , and she has practiced law at JMBM for over 40 years . 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 represented hundreds of EB-5 offering sponsors and real estate developers to obtain financing through the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program for the development of hotels , multi-family , assisted living and mixed use developments throughout the U . S . She also represents private investment fund managers , registered securities broker-dealers and investment advisers on securities offerings , business transactions and regulatory compliance issues . For the last five years , she has been named as one of the Top 25 attorneys by EB5 Investors Magazine .
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