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JMBM is pleased to announce that Catherine DeBono Holmes, alongside fellow partners Jim Butler and David Sudeck, has been named to EB5 Investors Magazine’s “Top 15 Corporate and Securities Attorneys” list for 2023.
Cathy is the Chair of JMBM’s Investment Capital Law Group and the author of the Investment Law Blog. She helps clients worldwide

This article was first published by the IIUSA Regional Center Business Journal and is reprinted with permission.
All real estate development projects are subject to risks that the developer or project owner will not complete a project or will not meet operating projections, but the Covid-19 pandemic has substantially increased the number of real estate

This article was first published by the IIUSA Regional Center Business Journal and is reprinted with permission.
All real estate development projects are subject to risks that the developer or project owner will not complete a project or will not meet operating projections, but the Covid-19 pandemic has substantially increased the number of real estate

The final IRS Regulations released December 19, 2019 modify and clarify some of the previously proposed regulations, and retain most of the previously proposed regulations, for real estate investors and developers in Opportunity Zone projects. 
The IRS Release of the final Opportunity Zone regulations – consisting of 350 pages of explanations of what was changed

The following article is reproduced with permission from Copyright 2019The Bureau of National Affairs Inc. (800-372-1033) www.bna.com.
Summary: The qualified small business stock exclusion allows qualified business founders and investors to exclude from federal income tax some or all of the capital gains they realize on qualifying stock sales. Eric Bardwell and Catherine DeBono

The following article is reproduced with permission from Copyright 2019The Bureau of National Affairs Inc. (800-372-1033) www.bna.com.
Summary: The qualified small business stock exclusion allows qualified business founders and investors to exclude from federal income tax some or all of the capital gains they realize on qualifying stock sales. Eric Bardwell and Catherine DeBono

JMBM’s Investment Capital Law Group is pleased to announce that Catherine DeBono Holmes, Chair of the Group, will participate as a panelist for PLI’s 21st Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute.
Date:   November 7-8, 2019
Place:  Live in San Francisco or via Webcast
Cathy will participate on the panel focusing on Opportunity Zone Real Estate

JMBM’s Investment Capital Law Group is pleased to announce that Catherine DeBono Holmes, Chair of the Group, will participate as a panelist for PLI’s 21st Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute.
Date:   November 7-8, 2019
Place:  Live in San Francisco or via Webcast
Cathy will participate on the panel focusing on Opportunity Zone Real Estate

Two years after the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) adopted Policy Manual changes addressing requirements for the redeployment of capital contributions of EB-5 investors until the end of their two-year period of conditional permanent residency, it has not provided any further guidance on these issues.  EB-5 sponsors have been left to navigate this uncertain

By Catherine Holmes, Brad Cohen and Jamie Ogden
The latest IRS Proposed Regulations Released April 17, 2019 provide greater flexibility to real estate developers seeking capital from investors for Opportunity Zone projects.
Some of the problems posed for real estate developers and others under the new Opportunity Zone (“OZ”) tax incentive program, codified as Sections