Mark Feriante Email & Phone Number

EB5AN is a national leader in EB-5 and owns one of the largest networks of Regional Centers that covers the entire continental United States, with over 2,300 EB-5 investors from over 60 countries. EB5AN partners with best-in-class developers across asset classes to offer a full-service EB-5 solution and provides immediate access to its network of Regional Centers through an affiliation model. The team has extensive experience in business strategy, investment evaluation, securities/tax, and immigration law. The EB5AN team has advised Fortune 500 companies on growth and investment strategies and has worked on some of the largest IPOs, securities offerings, and private equity buyouts in the past fifteen years. With in-house service as a hallmark, our team has partners and offices in the U.S. and abroad.The EB-5 program is an initiative created by the U.S. government to encourage foreign investment in U.S. businesses and to provide an incentive for entrepreneurs looking to fuel job growth.EB-5 visas offer immigrant investors the most flexible path to permanent lawful U.S. residence and citizenship. EB-5 investor green card eligibility essentially depends on investing the required capital and providing a legal source of funds. www.EB5Investments.com

Baker Tilly US, LLP is a leading advisory CPA firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers – New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. Baker Tilly is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 145 territories, with 41,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $4.7 billion. > Serves as Manager on Development and Community Advisory Services - Capital Formation team. Assists primarily with the EB-5 program, in addition to the New Markets Tax Credits and Capital Magnet Fund Affordable Housing programs.> Engages with EB-5 clients to provide lead consulting and helps oversee an expert team of economists, analysts, researchers, and writers.> Brings over 10 years’ experience in EB-5, previously working with Wright Johnson, a leading EB-5 consulting firm, as well as a law firm that specializes in immigration law. Baker Tilly’s EB-5 team is consistently recognized by the EB-5 industry as a top service provider, specializing in USCIS-compliant economic job creation studies and business plans. Baker Tilly has successfully prepared over 1,200 economic studies and 1,500 business plans for projects that have gone on to raise over $3 billion in EB-5 capital. For more information, please visit https://www.bakertilly.com/specialties/eb-5-immigrant-investor-program.

• Assist developers in qualifying new investment projects for the USCIS EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program to raise low cost capital through concentrated foreign investments• Lead group engaging with clients to oversee immigration business plan writing to ensure the highest standard of excellence and for compliance with USCIS requirements• See examples of some of the regional center applications and project business plans completed listed below

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Assisted with preparation of USCIS EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program applications, including regional center applications, comprehensive business plans, investment contracts and offering documents, and investor petitions for new capital investment projects on behalf of developers seeking to finance new commercial enterprises using debt capital raised through pooled foreign investments• Coordinated with EB-5 related service providers such as economic consultants, research and consulting firms that perform market analysis and feasibility studies, immigration attorneys, migration agents, local and state economic development agencies, accounting, banking and securities professionals to assist regional center principals, project developers and foreign investors to ensure compliance with USCIS rules and regulations for investment program eligibility• See examples of some of the regional center applications and project business plans completed listed below

• Worked under the direction of the Senior Partner to prepare and file upwards of 1,000 Chapter 7 (total liquidation) and Chapter 13 (debt restructuring) bankruptcy cases on behalf of debtors (both individuals and businesses); assisted Senior Partner at 341 meetings; made conversion to new case preparation software and electronic filing system to increase accuracy, efficiency and decrease costs; tracked progress of cases to successfully meet deadlines and comply with new US Federal Bankruptcy Reform requirements under the ‘Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention & Consumer Protection Act’ of 2005

Mba, Finance, Strategy

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma Honor's Society (By Invitation Only)

Information Technology Law Summer Program

Juris Doctor, Law

Activities and Societies: Howard W. Hunter Law Society; Tax Assistant, VITA (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced) IRS Certified Volunteer

B.S., Business, General

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