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Steve Park
Ballard Spahr LLP
Steve Park is a partner in Ballard Spahr’s
Atlanta office, and is well known for
his work on EB-5 financing matters.
Park has represented a wide range of
regional centers, project developers,
and other sponsors in EB-5 financing
transactions and related securities
offerings and other compliance aspects
of the federal program. He also focuses
Bruce Rosetto
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Bruce Rosetto is a Corporate and
Securities shareholder at Greenberg
Traurig, LLP and is co-managing
shareholder for the firm’s Boca Raton,
Florida office. On top of his experience
with EB-5 program corporation and
securities transactions, he works in areas
of concentration including debt and
equity financings, mergers and acquisi-
CORPOR ATE AT TORNE YS
on commercial lending transactions for
multinational companies and banking
clients who extend credit for Korean
and other corporate borrowers in the
United States.
Park brings his experience in
finance to the negotiating table when
structuring EB-5 deals. Because of
his intimate knowledge of finance, he
brings an extra layer of experience when
advising his clients on how to structure
the EB-5 capital stack. Additionally,
his strong relationships with traditional
banks means that he understands loan
transactions and the role that traditional
and EB-5 lenders can play in EB-5
deals.
Park recently led the Ballard Spahr
EB-5 financing team to produce the securities offering materials and negotiate
preferred equity financing documents
for a $50 million EB-5 offering to
foreign investors to fund development
of a new 927,000 square foot mixed-use
development of approximately $250
million in total project cost. He also
recently counseled an EB-5 regional
center to prepare the securities offering
materials and negotiate loan documents
to provide an $89 million term loan
facility to fund a mixed-use hospitality
development of approximately $154
million in total project cost. Likewise,
he counseled a Tier-One automotive
parts manufacturer to coordinate with
an EB-5 regional center to prepare the
securities offering materials and negotiate loan documents (including subordination and intercreditor agreement with
a senior lender) for $30 million EB-5
offering to foreign investors to fund
expansion of manufacturing facilities.
Park is a frequent speaker on EB-5
related topics and writes on finance
and securities issues for EB-5 industry
professionals. He is fluent in Korea
and is a graduate of the University of
Illinois College of Law and Vanderbilt
University.
ti ons and corporate governance.
Rosetto represents private and public
companies, private equity funds, and
investment banks. He has extensive
experience in public company securities
work, private placement financings,
corporate governance, and alternate
assets. His practice focuses on entrepreneurs and small to middle market public
companies throughout the United States
in a variety of industries, including life
sciences, bio-tech, banking, real estate,
environmental, manufacturers, technology, entertainment and many others.
He also advises clients in connection
with raising capital for and establishing
regional centers to administer, projects
qualifying for investment under the EB-5
Entrepreneur Investment Visa Program.
He frequently counsels clients in
general corporate transactional work, debt
and equity financings, EB-5 corporation
and securities transactions, Corporate
finance, mergers and acquisitions,
corporate governance, securities, invest-
ment banking, Broker/Dealer regulation,
intellectual property and licensing,
employment law, banking and real estate
transactions.
Rosetto earned his J.D. from the
Villanova University School of Law in
Villanova, Pennsylvania. He is highly
engaged in the legal community - he’s
chairman of the Florida Atlantic Research
and Development Authority, a member
of the Hedge Fund Task Force and
Finance Task Force for Palm Beach
Business Development Board, a member
of the Royal Palm Yacht and Country
Club’s board of governors, a member
of the Florida Venture Forum, and a
member of the Gold Coast Venture Capital
Association.
Rosetto has been listed in Super Lawyers
magazine as a Florida Super Lawyer, and
in the Legal 500 UK. He was also a team
member in Corporate Board Member
magazine and FTI Consulting Inc., one of
“America’s Best Corporate Law Firms” 13th
Annual Legal Industry Study in 2013.
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