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Stephen Yale-Loehr
Miller Mayer LLP
Stephen Yale-Loehr, Attorney of
Counsel at Miller Mayer LLP in Ithaca,
New York, brings more than 30 years of
immigration law experience to his EB-5
cases. Yale-Loehr first became involved
in EB-5 in 1996, and was immediately
drawn to EB-5 because it requires him
to stay on the cutting edge of business,
securities, and immigration law.
Yale-Loehr is perhaps best known
for co-authoring Immigration Law
and Procedure, the leading 21-volume
treatise on U.S. immigration law. He
has also authored many books and law
review articles on immigration issues,
has testified before Congress, and has
appeared as an expert witness numerous
times.
With Yale-Loehr at the forefront
of their growth, Miller Mayer has
assembled a team of 11 EB-5 attorneys
and 35 EB-5 staff, including several
native Chinese speakers. Miller Mayer
has handled more than two thousand
EB-5 cases and represents individual
EB-5 investors, regional centers, and
project developers. The firm has filed
more than 35 successful regional center
applications and worked on more than
250 EB-5 projects, helping its clients
raise over $2.5 billion in EB-5 funds for
their projects.
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Robert Cornish, Jr.
Bob Cornish is a securities attorney
who concentrates his practice in
SEC compliance and enforcement
matters for fund managers, family
offices and service providers in the EB-5
arena, including investment advisers,
broker-dealers and their registrants.
Cornish also assists those in the EB-5
space on matters relating to compliance
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Yale-Loehr sees a growing sophistication and maturation among EB-5
investors, regional centers, and project
developers as the program expands.
He likens EB-5 to a Rubik’s Cube,
in that all the complex aspects of an
EB-5 project have to line up correctly
to be successful. Yale-Loehr forecasts a
continued growth in the EB-5 program,
despite potential setbacks from the
backlog for Chinese investors.
When he is not counseling clients
at Miller Mayer, Yale-Loehr teaches an
immigration law seminar at Cornell
Law School each fall and a political
asylum clinic each spring. He also
founded and is president emeritus of
IIUSA. Yale-Loehr is listed each year in
Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Who’s
Who in America, and An International
Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration
Lawyers as one of the top immigration
lawyers in the world.
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and enforcement of state securities laws
and the rules of self-regulatory organizations such as the Financial Industry
Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
Cornish began extensive work
on EB-5 securities matters in 2011,
recognizing the need for industry
participants to become familiar with the
complex compliance requirements of
state and federal securities laws. Prior to
returning to private practice, Cornish
served as Chief Legal and Compliance
Officer for Pacific Income Advisers,
then a $7 billion money management
firm, as well as General Counsel for a
prominent family office in Memphis,
Tennessee involved in commodities
trading.
Cornish seeks to leverage his litigation
experience and compliance roles when
working on behalf of EB-5 clients by
providing practical, in-house know-how
with succinct and clear guidance
on compliance and fund formation
matters. In particular, Cornish works
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with offshore fund counsel and clients
in developing the regulatory controls
and registrations necessary to conduct
business in the United States.
Cornish earned his Bachelor of
Arts from Davidson College in North
Carolina, and his law degree from the
Cumberland School of Law of Samford
University, Birmingham, Alabama.
Cornish is admitted to practice in
the District of Columbia, New York,
Tennessee, Arkansas and Wyoming.
Cornish also serves as Chairpersontrained arbitrator for FINRA, the
National Futures Association (NFA)
and the London Court of International
Arbitration (LCIA), and is also a Rule
31 Listed Civil Mediator with the
Tennessee Supreme Court. A prominent
commentator on EB-5 securities law
matters, Cornish has the honor of being a
frequent panelist for the EB-5 Diligence
webinar series and other EB-5 industry
events, as well as serving on roundtables
on EB-5 legislation reform.