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thought leader in EB-5 project finance.
Tishler and his team represent sophisticated developers and intermediaries in
all transactional areas of EB-5 project
finance, including transaction structures,
offering materials, securities law
compliance and construction lending.
Tishler works personally with every
EB-5 client to design and negotiate
programs and strategies to maximize the
economic benefits and minimize legal
and execution risks. Tishler views himself
as a problem-solver and he enjoys EB-5
work for the unique challenges associated
with marrying traditional project finance
to EB-5 program requirements.
Tishler views the biggest challenge in
the industry to be a still-lingering view
that EB-5 financing programs may be
executed with less legal discipline, compliance, due diligence, specialist expertise
and oversight than other investment
programs. He points out that, generally,
the opposite is true – EB-5 programs have
all of the same legal demands and risks
of any investment or real estate finance
program with the additional complexity of
EB-5 program compliance.
Tishler’s problem-solving approach
to EB-5 issues and his concise, precise
and entertaining communication style
are reflected in his many publications
and public speaking engagements. He
is co-editor and co-author of The EB-5
Handbook: A Guide for Investors and
Developers (2014). He chairs a subcommittee of the Best Practices Committee of
Invest in the USA (IIUSA). Tishler is also
an active participant in the Roundtable of
EB-5 Transactional Lawyers organized by
EB5 Diligence and a popular speaker at
conferences.
Tishler practices at his firm’s Del Mar
Heights office in San Diego, California.
He has been an adjunct professor at the
University Of San Diego School Of
Law teaching “Deals”. When he is not
practicing law, Tishler enjoys hikes with
his wife, weekend camping trips with his
kids and martial arts training.
Osvaldo Torres is a 1987 graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
where he served as Editor-in-Chief of
the Penn Law Forum. For the entirety
of his professional career, Torres has
focused on assisting clients negotiate and
effect complex corporate and securities
transactions, including offerings, mergers
and acquisitions and other sophisticated
deals.
For the last five years, Torres has been
immersed in EB-5 work, where his rich
experience in complex legal matters has
allowed him to successfully represent
regional centers and projects with their
corporate structuring and securities
offerings matters. Torres has worked
on numerous EB-5 offerings, including
those involving hotel development,
multi-family residential construction,
senior independent living complexes,
healthcare and medical device companies,
restaurants and franchises.
Torres frequently speaks at EB-5
conferences on securities issues and other
aspects of the EB-5 practice and is a
member of the EB-5 SEC Roundtable.
He also serves on IIUSA’s Compliance
Committee, on the Steering Committee
for the EB-5 Investment Coalition, and
is rated AV Preeminent by MartindaleHubbell. In addition, Torres Law has
been selected as a Medallion Partner
by NES Financial and a Top 25 EB-5
Securities Attorney by EB-5 Investors
Magazine.
Prior to founding Torres Law, Torres
worked as a corporate and securities
attorney at several large and prestigious
firms, including Schulte Roth & Zabel
in New York City and Greenberg
Traurig in Miami. He has also served
as Senior Vice President and General
Counsel for Telemundo Group, the
Spanish-language television network,
and for HBO Latin America Group,
the premiere cable programmer in Latin
America.
Torres considers himself, above all, a
deal lawyer and his principal goal is to
see deals successfully close, especially
in the seemingly ever-evolving EB-5
space. For that reason, one of the most
rewarding aspects of being an EB-5
securities attorney is helping clients
navigate the EB-5 regulatory maze. To
date, Torres has counseled on EB-5 and
other offerings for projects valued in
excess of $5 billion.
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John Tishler
Sheppard Mullin Richter &
Hampton LLP
John Tishler, partner at Sheppard Mullin
Richter & Hampton LLP, has been
practicing corporate and securities law
for more than 20 years. At Sheppard
Mullin, Tishler is Co-Team Leader of
the firm’s Capital Markets & Public
Companies Team and Chair of the EB-5
Project Finance team.
Tishler is widely recognized as a
Osvaldo Torres
Torres Law