Phuong Le
Phuong律师的EB-5业务主要包括为企业、开发商和区域中心提供结构搭建和实施方面的法律建议，以及管理EB-5资金。 他在代表EB-5事务相关各方上有着丰富的背景经验，曾代表过个人投资者、企业所有者和开发商，并担任一个大型南加州EB-5区域中心的内部法律顾问。他成功地为各类商业企业提供EB-5资金方面的专业意见，包括商业地产开发、多户家庭公寓建筑、精品和全方位服务酒店、医疗办公大楼、夜店和连锁餐厅等。 他在整个EB-5筹措资金流程中与企业紧密合作，包括参与架构EB-5发售贷款/股票，将其作为多元化资本堆栈的一部分，协调证券律师、经济学家、商业计划书起草人和托管银行间复杂的评估和结构搭建。这其中涉及评估一系列商业和交易文件，包括项目和发售文件，如招股书、经营协议、认购协议等，以确保EB-5合规。 他还为企业提供建立和管理他们自己的区域中心的法律咨询服务，包括提交年度I-924A合规报告和起草I-526和I-829样本，确保区域中心和投资人工作成果的连贯性，以及对其他律师提交的EB-5资料的同行评审。
Phuong Le is a Partner with David Hirson & Partners, LLP’s dedicated EB-5 practice group. He draws upon an extensive background advising parties on all sides of EB-5 transactions, including Regional Centers, project developers, agents, and investors. Prior to joining the firm, he was in-house counsel for a large Southern California EB-5 Regional Center and real estate developer. There, he managed over $500 million in EB-5 financing and guided the company to several milestones, including approvals for their first 100 I-829 petitions.
His clients span the entire industry. He has successfully advised Regional Centers and businesses across the U.S. on over $2 billion in EB-5 deals, including commercial real estate developments, multifamily apartment buildings, hotels, medical office buildings, and restaurant franchises.
He works closely with businesses throughout the EB-5 financing process, including structuring debt/equity EB-5 offerings as part of a diversified capital stack, and coordinating complex review and structuring with securities attorneys, economists, business plan writers, and escrow banks.
He regularly consults businesses on forming and managing their own Regional Centers, including filing annual I-924A compliance reports and creating I-526 and I-829 templates to ensure Regional Centers and investors have consistent work product, including peer review of other attorneys’ EB-5 filings. He also lectures and trains other attorneys, migration agents, and professionals on EB-5 project structure and due diligence.
He also oversees the firm’s Vietnamese practice group and hosts a weekly immigration TV special to serve the Vietnamese community in Orange County, CA. He regularly travels to Vietnam where he works closely with the firm’s business partners, agents, and investors. Finally, he also frequently shares his knowledge regarding project structuring, source of funds, and complex EB-5 matters with the industry as a lecturer, author, and as co-counsel/peer review for other EB-5 attorneys.
