lndependent Counsel
Steve Yale-Loehr

The management company of the Fund retains Steve Yale-Loehr as its outside general counsel to advise EB-5 legal and regulatory matters, including compliance and auditing. Mr. Yale- Loehr is one of the nation's preeminent authorities on U.S. immigration and asylum law, and has practiced immigration law for over 25 years. He is co-author of Immigration Law and Procedure, the leading multi-volume treatise on immigration law. He is of counsel at Miller Mayer, LLP, in Ithaca, New York, and also teaches immigration and asylum law at Cornell Law School as an adjunct professor. He has been the Chairman of the Association of US Regional Centers.

Mr. Yale-Loehr received his B.A. degree from Cornell University in 1977 and his J.D., cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 1981. Upon receiving his Cornell J.D. cum laude, Prof. Yale-Loehr clerked for Chief Judge Howard G. Munson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.

From 1982 to 1986 Mr. Yale-Loehr practiced international trade and immigration law at a large law firm in Washington, D.C. From 1986 to 1994 he was managing editor of Interpreter Releases and executive editor of Immigration Briefings, two leading immigration law publications.

Mr. Yale-Loehr is a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is vice-chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) business immigration committee.

Mr. Yale-Loehr is listed in Who’s Who in America and in the International Who’s Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers as one of the best immigration lawyers in the world.