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Debbie Klis
Ballard Spahr LLP
Debbie Klis has a broad financial practice
focused on an array of business, securities,
and tax issues. She is known for her work
with investment management companies,
including the formation and operation
of EB-5 immigration investment funds
and regional centers, hedge funds,
private equity funds, real estate funds,
land syndications, and international
Jor Law
Homeier & Law P.C.
Jor Law practices corporate and securities transactional law in Los Angeles and
is a founding shareholder of Homeier &
Law P.C. Law maintains a broad-based
general corporate legal practice with an
emphasis on mergers and acquisitions
and finance. While he has achieved
success in his core practice areas, he is
most well-known for his unparalleled
CORPOR ATE AT TORNE YS
master-feeder structures.
Klis represents real estate developers
and public and private companies seeking
capital under the EB-5 program to fund
their projects. She assists principals and
developers with the formation of regional
centers or by joining with an existing EB-5
approved regional center through a rental
model or arm’s length investment. She
handles all legal aspects of the preparation
and filing of Regional Center designation
and Regional Center amendment applications, including project business plans,
exemplar applications, I-526 templates,
securities offering documents, loan
documents, including procuring bridge
loan and bridge equity, and corporate
documents for compliance with the EB-5
program requirements.
Klis consults and advises clients on the
EB-5 program as an alternative source of
funding for their real estate development
or company funding needs. She also
has significant experience with financial
products, including derivatives and global
equity offerings representing placement
agents, issuers, broker-dealers, investment
banks and multinational financial institutions, funds, investment advisers, investment
companies, and banks. She advises equity
sponsors, their portfolio companies, and
registered and unregistered funds on issues
involving the Securities Act of 1933, the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
Investment Adviser Act, the Investment
Company Act of 1940, and the Commodity
Futures Act. She has extensive experience
with private securities offerings, including
PIPEs, and investment-grade debt offerings.
Klis has a long history in securities and
funds involving the aggregation of money
to deploy in projects such as real estate
funds, and private equity funds. During the
economic downturn, she heard about the
EB-5 Program and loved the job creation
and immigration aspects of the program.
She learned the subtle differences between
traditional U.S. and international funds and
those involving EB-5 and says she hasn’t
looked back.
expertise in alternative finance, including EB-5 finance and crowdfunding,
both industries where he is recognized
as one of the foremost transactional
attorneys in the world. Law founded the
EB-5 practice of Homeier & Law P.C.,
which has gone on to represent clients
on hundreds of different EB-5 matters,
helped companies and projects successfully raise billions of dollars through
the EB-5 program, and influenced
policy changes and reforms to the EB-5
program. Law received his Juris Doctor
degree from Columbia University
and his Bachelor’s degree from the
University of California-Berkeley. Law
is licensed to practice law in California
and New York.
For three consecutive years, Law was
recognized by Super Lawyers magazine
as one of “Southern California’s Super
Lawyers – Rising Stars,” placing him
among the top 2.5 percent of the best
up-and-coming attorneys in Southern
California.Using a completely objective
model to evaluate attorneys, Avvo
rated Law as a “Superb” attorney, the
highest available rating offered by
Avvo. Law is also a co-founder and the
principal architect of VerifyInvestor.
com, the resource for accredited investor
verifications trusted by broker-dealers,
law firms, companies, and investors who
insist on safety and reliability. These
verifications are required by federal
laws for generally solicited Regulation
D, Rule 506(c) capital raises. In the
EB-5 industry, regional centers, project
principals, broker-dealers, migration
agents, and immigrant investors have
been relying on VerifyInvestor.com
as the compliance solution for their
accredited investor verification obligations. Law is frequently sought out
as a speaker internationally on the
topics of capital raising, investing,
EB-5 finance, securities, and other
corporate matters relevant to attorneys,
entrepreneurs, and investors.
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