EB-5 Project Analysis Critera
1.What is the probability that the jobs will be created within the time alloted and that those jobs will be acceptable to USCIS / CSC?
2. What is the probability that principal will be returned at term? Is the exit strategy clearly defined and achievable?
This empirical analysis provides the foreign national investor with the information they need from an independent, professional resource that will help guide them to making the best possible investment decision for them and their family.
Factors used in the comparative analysis report.
We acquire objective and reliable information on an EB-5 Regional Center’s management and operational activities. Our reports cover over 30 topics including:
1: Opportunity
2: Strategic plan
3: Management
4: Organization chart
5: Location, demographics (map of TEA / Regional Center)
6: Job creation
7: Market (for product or service; domestic or global?)
8: Marketing plan
9: Equity participation
10: Allocation of profit / loss, estimated time to positive cash flow, earnings
11: Fees & expenses (for project and for investor)
12: Financial projections (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow)
13: Revenue projections (if this is a debt product, then structure of interest differential)
14: Competition
15: Past projects, track record (EB-5 investments and other), past capital raised
16: Risk factors
17: Risk management / mitigation
18: Exit strategy, transfer of interest restrictions
19: Escrow: number of investors needed before project can begin, total number of investors needed, release or return of funds conditions
20: Funding requirements: existing debt, or other equity or debt obligations needed or contracted to complete project, lines of credits and/or external equity available for project
21: Project structure: projected ratio of EB-5 funds to overall project funding
22: Investment terms, operating agreement
23: Number of 526, 829’s filed, pending, approved, denied (success rate)
24: Any 526 or 829 Requests for Evidence (RFE’s)?
25: Message from the Principal / GP
26: Industry overview
27: Regional center & industry news
28: Market prices (spot & forward) (ie. commodities, lease rates) & current PPM asset valuations
29: Any proprietary intellectual property rights, patents?
30: Competing technology or patents, est. time to completion of R&D, commercialization?
31: Contact information
32: Reporting requirements, operational and job creation: frequency of reporting
The comparative analysis report is a systematic research effort, which is used to gather the critical facts and descriptive information which is most relevant to the making of an informed decision on a matter of importance to the foreign national and their family.
