FAQs on our EB-5 Advisory Services

We constantly receive inquiries from EB-5 project developers and regional centers concerning our EB-5 advisory services and China market entry services. We have compiled answers to some frequently asked questions.  Hope they are helpful to your efforts.

How can you assist me in creating my regional center?
Artisan Business Group has helped many developers, officials, and executives in the process of creation of their regional centers. It is very important on who you select to be part of your team.  Artisan Business Group can introduce EB-5 experienced professionals (attorneys, business plan writers, economists, etc.) based upon your budget, time constraints, and personal needs. It is important to work with an experienced team to minimize the number of RFEs (Request For Evidence) from the USCIS. Artisan Business Group can set you up with the right team to reduce your time and efforts in applying for a regional center designation.

Do you only consult regional center projects?
No, Artisan Business Group also advises many direct EB-5 projects. Direct EB-5 projects that we consult with are usually looking for $2-3 million per project. Some investors prefer investing in direct EB-5 projects because they do not have to worry about the creation of indirect and induced jobs. We often assist non-EB-5 related investment projects in searching for Chinese investors and partners.

How do we begin talking with you about our EB-5 project?
After you have introduced yourself to our company, you can begin by sending us a project summary. A project summary allows us to become familiar with your project. Other documents needed are executive summaries and business plans. Once we have become familiar with your project and needs, we can create a customized proposal for our advisory services.

Will you introduce my project to emigration brokers?
Artisan Business Group gets calls every day from people who want us to introduce their project to overseas licensed brokers. We must advise all of our clients for at least one or two month before we introduce it to a licensed emigration broker. This allows us to analyze project viability and marketability and help narrow the client’s offering to the current market conditions. We have a strong reputation in both U.S. and China because we only introduce quality projects to Chinese immigration brokers. After we have advised your project, we will introduce it to brokers if it is a quality project. We have a strong reputation with brokers so whenever we contact them about one of our projects, they are very interested in learning about the possibilities of promoting it.

How do you determine which brokers you will introduce to my project?
Artisan Business Group is very familiar with current projects in the market place and which brokers are promoting these projects. This allows us to have the knowledge about which brokers have a heavy work load and which brokers are actively looking for new projects.  Another factor we look at is the amount of capital your project is looking for. If it is a large project, we will introduce it to the large brokers. We know the capabilities of each licensed brokers so the amount of EB-5 capital is an important factor in which brokers we introduce to your project.

Once you introduce me to different brokers, what other services do you provide? After we have advised your project and introduced it to brokers, we then begin facilitating the relationship between you and the broker. Our director in China works very closely with the brokers of our clients to ensure that they are actively promoting your project. This reduces your effort in managing the relationship with the brokers and also cuts down in the amount of time it takes to sign on investors.  Broker facilitation is very important in the process of capturing EB-5 capital. 

For more information about utilizing EB-5 regional center program, contact us today.

MOC to tally US$150 bln in outbound investment

(Source: Xinhua News) The Ministry of Commerce (MOC) of PR China announced Tuesday that outbound investment from the world's second-largest economy is expected to total 150 billion U.S. dollars in 2015. The country's overseas investment is predicted to grow by an annual rate of 17 percent during the 2011-2015 period, according to the MOC. Meanwhile, the MOC forecast that the contract value of overseas projects will hit 180 billion U.S. dollars in 2015, while the business volume in overseas-contracted projects may hit 120 billion U.S. dollars.

Amid accelerating Chinese investment, the ministry also predicted that the country would send 550,000 more Chinese staff to work on these projects in 2015, with the total number of Chinese staff working under these projects to hit one million by the end of 2015, the MOC forecast. As of the end of 2010, Chinese-invested overseas projects were conducted in nearly 200 countries and regions, with outbound investment during the 2006-2010 period growing by 30 percent annually, according to the MOC. The latest data from the MOC showed that the country's non-financial overseas direct investment totaled 23.16 billion U.S. dollars in the first four months, up 72.8 percent from a year earlier.

US Indian Investment and Business Forum announced in Chicago

Artisan Business Group announces "The US-India Investment and Business Forum" at Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown/Lakefront August 24, 2012.   The event will not only cover various direct inbound capital investment, it will also discuss EB-5 investor program, cultural issues and other matters in relate to inbound investment from India.

The Indian economy is expected to sustain a high growth rate in coming years, and could potentially grow to the third largest economy in the world. As the Indian economy grows, Indian companies will seek lucrative investment and business opportunities globally. Over US $25 billion has been being invested every year regularly by Indian investors of diverse sectors in global market. It is important for American business executives to learn how to seek and attract capital from India to projects in the U.S. welcomes Indian investment in the American economy. More details will be coming soon. Bookmark our blog. Confirmed speakers and VIPs are the following:

Mr. Seann Nelipinath
Founder, Chairman & President
India Chamer of Commerce
Mr. Seann Nelipinath is the founder chairman and concept architect of India Chamber of Commerce, a US level enterprise chamber with a global business model that focus on existing and emerging industry trends, new-age thinking and execution models. His vision and strategy is about creating and realizing value-based business opportunities through structures that effectively cater in the global markets. After his 21 years of corporate stint with large consulting groups where Mr. Nelipinath held various executive leadership positions with Fortune 500 global corporations, he founded Imperia a Business Solution & Services organization in 2004. At Imperia as CEO he partners with "C-Level" Executives to establish Global Partnerships and provide Integration and M&A Consulting Services. He is actively engaged in professional forums and speaks on emerging trends in business and economy, global partnerships, organizational & business intelligence, leadership strategy, and drives home the need for human and technology integration. His views on emerging trends in the global markets have appeared on various US and international main stream media such as CBS, WCCO, PTI, Times of India, Economic Times, Business Standard and several others.

 
Ms. Radhika Reddy, Founding Partner
Ariel Ventures, LLC & Ariel Int'l Center, LLC
Ms. Radhika Reddy has 30 years of finance, tax, IT and business experience in international business, real estate, economic development, manufacturing and entrepreneurship. Ms. Reddy is on the Asian American Advisory Board, the Global markets advisory board, and on the Board of Regents Task force for Commercialization of Technology for the State of Ohio. Ms. Reddy has helped companies set up subsidiaries in India, Hong Kong, Canada, Brazil, Denmark, UK and Singapore and has handled several aspects of international transactions, including letters of credit; foreign currency hedging; global purchasing, logistics and distribution; customs duties; accounting; transactions with foreign subsidiaries; and negotiations with suppliers globally. Ms. Reddy also set up a subsidiary for Ariel Ventures in India and China. Ms. Reddy has worked on over $1.5 billion of tax credit transactions to structure complex project financing in public-private partnerships, combining comprehensive economic development incentives to attract businesses and stimulate economic development in the region and nationally.  Ms. Reddy collaborated with Cleveland Cuyahoga County Port Authority to create a Community Development Entity (CDE), to finance economic development projects and has helped obtain $100 million in New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) for making investments in low-income areas. She also collaborated with other entities including National City Bank, University Circle Inc.; Kentucky Inter-local School Transportation Association, St. Louis Development Corporation; Michigan Magnet Fund; Citywide Dayton and helped obtain over $600 million in NMTC allocations. Ms. Reddy was awarded the 2002 International Business Woman of the Year for Northeast Ohio by OWIT-NEO, and was the recipient of the 2007 Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Cleveland Leadership award. She was also recognized by Inside Business as a 2009 and 2003 Athena Award finalist for her outstanding accomplishments as a woman business leader. She is an alumni of Leadership Cleveland - Class of 2009. She has co-developed a historic 50,000 s.f. building as office and research/lab facility designated as an Ohio HUB of Innovation and Opportunity. She is also developing another historic 70,000 s.f. building into the Ariel International Center to create a one-stop international business incubator, office, and an international business and intercultural event center in Cleveland. Ms. Reddy has a Masters in Accounting / Taxation, from Cleveland State University and an MBA in Finance & MIS from Case Western Reserve University. 

Mr. Rajan Pillai, COO
Nanocrystal Technology, Inc.
Mr. Rajan Pillai is a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Nanocrystals Technology, Inc., and President of Indus Sunrise, Inc. which provides advisory services to American  and Indian  companies in cross border investments and acquisitions. During 1993 to 1997, Rajan Pillai was working as Managing Director of Peregrine Capital Ltd., then Hong Kong’s largest investment bank, during which time he worked on corporate and project finance transactions in South East Asia.  Prior to 1993, he worked in three New York City law firms as a corporate and SEC attorney focusing on IPOs and M & A transactions.  He was also as co-founder of three pharmaceutical companies. Two of these, Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Medi-Rx America, Inc. went public and the third, Trinity Laboratories, Inc., was acquired by Jubilant Life Sciences Inc., an Indian multinational. Mr. Pillai was awarded a  Master’s degree in Physics from Bombay University and a Master’s degree in Law from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the New York bar. 

Mr. Suraj Krishnan
Director, AlixPartners
Mr. Krishnan has 18+ years of experience both as a professional advisor for Fortune 500 companies and as an operational manager within the private and federal government sectors. He has a strong track record of managing and leading projects across the automotive & industrial equipment, consumer packaged goods and the medical device sectors to improve their operational performance and help drive tangible results to the bottom line.  His work has involved whole business transformations working on areas, such as, design and implementation of emerging market growth strategies for global clients, business process outsourcing, sourcing & supply chain efficiency improvement and product re-design(s) for mid size to Fortune 50 companies.  Additionally, he has led multiple acquisitive due diligence initiatives for private equity investors and family owned businesses. He has worked for clients in North & South America, Europe and Asia and traveled to 30+ countries over the course of his career. Mr. Krishnan graduated with an MBA, with Honors, from the University of Chicago, and has an MS and BS in Chemical Engineering. 

Dr. J. Mark Munoz
Associate Professor of International Business, Millikin University
Dr. J. Mark Munoz is an Associate Professor of International Business at Millikin University in Illinois, and former Visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a recipient of several awards including three Best Research Paper Awards, a Literary Award, and a Teaching Excellence Award among others. Aside from  top-tier journal publications, he has authored seven books namely : Land of My Birth, Winning Across Borders, In Transition, A Salesman in Asia, Handbook on Business Plan Creation, International Social Entrepreneurship, and Contemporary Microenterprises : Concepts and Cases. He is also Chairman/CEO of international management consulting firm - Munoz and Associates International. He develops marketing, business development and finance strategies for companies worldwide. 

Mr. Vishal Bhandari
Principal, A.T. Kearney
Mr. Vishal Bhandari, is a Principal in A.T. Kearney’s Chicago office and aligned with the Consumer and Health practices. He has more than 12 years of consulting experience serving clients in North America, Europe and Asia. He has worked for a wide array of clients in the healthcare industry (biopharma, medical technology and pharmacies) as well as Consumer and Retail sector. His areas of expertise include M&A, growth strategy, supply chain strategy and value chain collaboration.  Prior to joining A.T. Kearney, Vishal worked with Huron Consulting Group and Tata Consultancy Services. He earned his M.B.A from Kelley School of Business, Indiana University and B.Tech (in Electrical Engineering) from N.I.T Kurukshetra, India.

For sponsorship program of this event, contact Mr. Brian Su today at 217-899-6385.

Austin Texas is hosting EB-5 Seminar June 8, 2012

If you are seeking alternative finance through EB-5 regional center program, look no further!  Our nationwide consulting and seminar tour is coming to the high country of Texas!  Featuring Mr. Brian Su, CEO of Artisan Business Group, Kevin Wright, President of Wright Johnson LLC, Clem Turner, Attorney & Partner of Homeier & Law.

Featured Guest Speakers:
Kevin Wright, President, Wright Johnson LLC
An economist with the consulting firm Wright Johnson, LLC based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Considered one of the nation’s foremost experts on the EB-5 program, Wright has prepared economic analyses for Regional Center proposals and individual business projects. Kevin was named “EB-5 Service Provider of the Year” in 2010 and 2011 by Artisan Business Group, an international business consulting firm that hosts a widely read EB-5 blog.

Clem Turner, Securities Attorney, Homeier & Law
With the corporate law firm Homeier & Law. Clem has counseled numerous corporations and Regional Centers raising capital through the EB-5 Program on corporate law and securities matters. Over the course of his career, Clem has provided counsel in transactions with an aggregate value totaling more than $7 billion.

Join us in Austin Texas June 8, 2012. We will help you discover how your investment projects can benefit from Chinese investors and Korean investors. The one day EB-5 regional center executive seminar is designed for commercial real estate developers, EB-5 regional center executives, bankers, attorneys and anyone who is exploring EB-5 program.  The event is to take place at Embassy Suites Austin-Central. Log on http://www.TexasEB5Seminar.com for registration information. Contact Mr. Brian Su at 217-899-6385 for sponsorship program.

Chinese company buys AMC

Wanda Group in Liaoning Province China took a big leap forward into the U.S. market, acquiring AMC Entertainment Inc., the nation’s second-largest theater chain. Dalian Wanda Group said in a statement that it had reached an agreement to acquire AMC’s 5,034 screens in 346 theaters in the U.S. and Canada. The acquisition is expected at $3.1 billion.  The Kansas City, Missouri, movie theater chain is owned by JP Morgan Partners, Apollo Investment Fund and Bain Capital Investors. Wanda Group was founded as a real estate development firm in 1988, specializes in commercial real estate and hotel development as well as entertainment investment, the company has become one of the largest privately held businesses in China. For more information about inbound Chinese investments, contact us today.

The 2012 National EB-5 & Foreign Investment Consulting Tour comes to Chicago

The 2012 National EB-5 & Foreign Investment Consulting Tour is to be presented by Mr. Brian Su, CEO of Artisan Business Group, Inc., a leading authority in EB-5 investment program and Asian investments in the U.S. In the past two years, Mr. Su has organized various foreign investment seminars and events in Chicago, Las Vegas, New York, San Diego, Boston, Orlando, Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Shanghai, Guangzhou, etc. Over a thousand business executives, immigration attorneys, realty developers, bankers and government officials have benefited from such unique events. In 2012, Mr. Su will travel to meet and consult clients around the U.S. Book your own session at http://eb5chicago.eventbrite.com

EB-5 Regional Center Development and Investors Procurement Seminar comes to Austin Texas

“Capturing Foreign Capital to Fund Projects through EB-5 Program Seminar” hosted by Brian Su, a leading expert on EB-5 marketing in China and Korea, is attracting commercial real estate developers, immigration attorneys, investment bankers, EB-5 executives, and venture capitalists, among others, to be educated on the latest happenings and trends in the Chinese and Korean immigrant investors market.

The June 8, 2012 event hosted at Embassy Suites Austin Central, will be centered on how to secure EB-5 funding from wealthy Chinese and Korean immigrant investors.  The day-long event will be headed by Mr. Brian Su, who is well equipped to help U.S. capital seekers utilize the EB-5 Program. Guest speakers include Mr. Kevin Wright, President of Wright Johnson LLC, Mr. Clem Turner, Attorney of Clem Turner, Esq. Homeier & Law, P.C. and Dandan Zhou, CEO of Texas Investment Regional Center.

This year’s event will provide both EB-5 professionals and those inexperienced with the program a great opportunity to learn more about Chinese and Korean market trends. Attendees of the event will obtain knowledge and experience that will be invaluable in their efforts to obtain EB-5 foreign capital. Those attending the event also have the opportunity to meet the prior day with Artisan Business Group’s CEO, Mr. Brian Su, for a 1-hour private consultation. For more information regarding the event, registration, or a private consultation with Mr. Su, please visit: http://www.TexasEB5Seminar.com.

The one and only Chinese Investment in US Real Estate Seminar announced

The 2nd Chinese Investment in the US Real Estate Forum is to be drawing U.S. real estate developers, property owners, financial advisors, attorneys, investment bankers, and industry executives, and venture capitalists, among others, to be educated on the latest happenings in China-US real estate investment. The June 21, 2012 event, which will take place in Los Angeles, will be centered on real estate investments pouring in from China. In the U.S., the Chinese are now the second-largest foreign buyers of homes, behind Canadians, accounting for $7.4 billion of sales in the 12 months ended March 2011, up 24% from the previous 12 months, according to the National Association of Realtors. Buyers from China and Hong Kong also spent $1.71 billion on commercial property in the U.S. in 2011, more than quadruple their investment in 2008, says Real Capital Analytics. Chinese investors are interested in commercial projects, residential properties, hotels, golf courses, clubs, land, industrial warehouses, office buildings, and shopping centers. The Forum aims to help U.S. companies and individuals tap into more of this Chinese capital.

This year’s day-long event will feature some of the most experienced and knowledgeable individuals in the real estate industry. Scheduled speakers include Mr. Brian Su, CEO of Artisan Business Group, Inc. Mr. Guy Maisnik, Attorney and Partner Jeffer Mangels Bulter & Mitchell LLP (JMBM), Mr. Bernard P. Wolfsdorf, Managing Partner & Attorney, Wolfsdorf Immigration Law Group, Mr. David Appel, CPA & Senior Partner, Marcum LLP and Mr. Kevin Wright, President, Wright Johnson LLC Marcum LLP., and others

According to Mr. Brian Su, CEO of Artisan Business Group, Inc.,“Individuals or businesses looking for capital investment should not miss this important opportunity to network and make connections that will benefit their needs.  This year’s event is being hosted by Artisan Business Group, Inc., and sponsored by USA Continental Regional Center, LLC., will be held at the Embassy Suites LA International Airport/North, from 9:00 am – 4:30 pm, June 21, 2012. Those attending the event also have the opportunity to meet the prior day with Artisan Business Group’s CEO, Mr. Brian Su, for a 1-hour private consultation.  Additional information regarding the event, registration, or a private consultation with Mr. Su, please visit: http://www.attractasianInvestors.com.