You have no doubt read about the decision in Behring v. Wolfe invalidating the 2019 regulations of the EB-5 Program. The decision rolls back the minimum investment amount from $900,000 to $500,000 (and from $1,800,000 to $1,000,000 outside of targeted employment areas). The decision also invalidated the USCIS’s…
On December 15, 2017 FINRA issued its Extended Hearing Panel Decision in its Disciplinary Action No. 2013037522501. This Action was commenced on March 24, 2016 against Trevor Saliba of FINRA-member firm NMS Capital Securities LLC, and several other of the firm’s representatives. NMS has been active in the…
Initial coin offerings are all the craze, and for good reason. According to CoinSchedule, over $3 billion has been raised in the first 10 months of October. The Securities Exchange Commission released an investigative report concluding that DAO tokens were securities, and that scared people for maybe a few…
An increasing number of ICOs are choosing to disallow US investors from participating. For those of you on those management teams, or those of you with connections to those teams, I urge you to consider the following: 1) Presumably, disallowing US based investors is for the purposes of…
It’s no secret that the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has actively policed the EB-5 industry. Oversight by the SEC has generally been a good thing for the industry as it has brought greater awareness to legal compliance and helped protect investors who might have otherwise been defrauded. Historically,…
On Thursday, June 29, 2017, in the closely-watched EB-5 case SEC v. Feng, No. 2:15-cv-09420 (C.D. CA, filed December 7, 2015), a U.S. district court in California affirmed the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to oversee EB-5 investment offerings. New York attorney Hui Feng was one of several immigration attorneys…