EB5 Investors Magazine Volume 1 Issue 2 | Page 55

[ Immigration Attorneys ] Jennifer Hermansky began working on EB-5 cases in 2009, and has since been involved in over 50 regional center projects and hundreds of individual investor petitions. She has devoted her entire practice to EB-5 because she is truly passionate about it, allowing her to gain a complete and thorough understanding of the process. Jennifer Hermansky With her immigration background in employment-based visas, she is intimately familiar with the naturalization process and applies this knowledge to all of her EB-5 cases. Jennifer is an expert in the EB-5 program from start to finish, helping investors from the moment they decide to file until they become U.S. citizens. She brings her wealth of experience in multiple aspects of immigration law to the table for every EB-5 case. In particular, Jennifer has a unique perspective in the area of regional center development. Because she has worked with so many individual EB-5 petitioners, she knows exactly what potential investors are looking for in a project. With a degree in finance, she enjoys researching individual investors’ source of funds and helping structure regional center projects. She helps establish business plans, economic reports and securities offerings, ensuring that each is EB-5 compliant and attractive in order to appeal to foreign investors. Her involvement in regional centers is continual, and she counsels regional centers in issues of management, staffing and job creation on an ongoing basis. David Hirson has been involved with EB-5 cases since the program’s inception in 1990, making him among the most experienced active EB-5 immigration attorneys in the nation. He was present in the U.S. Senate when the EB-5 legislation was originally proposed, and debated and subsequently filed one of the first ever cases for a family from Taiwan. In fact, David filed many of the EB-5 cases that received approval during the first 10 years of the EB-5 program. Jennifer works at the Greenberg Traurig, LLP Philadelphia office and is part of the firm’s EB- 5 immigrant investor team. When she is not working on EB-5 cases, you might find Jennifer golfing or fishing. David Hirson David has over 30 years of experience practicing immigration law. He is a Partner at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP, where he co-manages the firm’s Irvine, Calif. office, which facilitates visa application processing at U.S. Embassies and Consulates across the world. He has been certified by the State Bar of California’s Board of Legal Specialization as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law for over 20 years. As such, David is an expert on EB-5 and an educator within the field. He regularly travels to China and other countries abroad and has developed relationships with the top providers who source investors for EB-5 projects in each country. Additionally, he attends trade shows, gives lectures to businessmen, human resources Associations and chambers of commerce, and establishes new ties within the EB-community as a whole. He has been published many times and is a leader in the EB-5 community and immigration law as a whole. David enjoys all kinds of culture and entertainment from Broadway to ballet. He also relishes traveling for work and for pleasure, exploring new places, experiencing new cultures and cuisine; but most of all he loves coming home to his wife their two miniature Maltese dogs. w w w. E B 5 I n v e s to r s . c o m 55