Why CMB Regional Centers

We are one of the oldest active EB-5 regional center operators in the EB-5 industry with over twenty five years of experience. Patrick F. Hogan, our CEO and Founder, has been involved in the EB-5 industry since 1994, and established our first regional center in 1997.

Experience

At CMB we focus solely as a regional center operator and a fiduciary to our investors. We have provided over 65,000 prospective investors with information on the EB-5 program. Over 6,000 investors from over 100 countries have subscribed to CMB EB-5 partnerships to pursue permanent residence in the United States.

To date, CMB has released over 80 separate EB-5 offerings, representing over $3.3 billion worth of investment capital, which has been combined with over $13 billion in public and private funds. These EB-5 offerings financed the development and construction of over 100 projects in 20 states across the U.S., which are projected to create 200,000 new American jobs.

Successes

Since our first EB-5 partnership, Group A, we have a 100% project approval rate. CMB EB-5 investors have achieved over 5,000 I-526 petition approvals, over 2,000 I-829 petition approvals, and we have returned over $1 billion in investment capital to our investors.

Transparency

In 2014, we were the first regional center to commission independent third-party audits of all our EB-5 partnership financials according to GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and petition approval statistics. We have commissioned the same audits each year since, and will continue to, thereby setting a standard of transparency for the industry.

Pioneers

We were the first regional center to rely solely upon economic model derived job creation, and were the first to introduce what is commonly referred to as the loan model. Over the years, the EB-5 industry has continued to evolve and many of the structures and methodologies that we pioneered have become widely used throughout the industry.

Our Structure

Our approach is simple: Traditionally, our EB-5 partnerships provide a six-year loan to a developer of a project that requires interest-only payments. Depending on the particular project, these loan agreements may be with government agencies, public/private partnerships, or experienced private developers. Our EB-5 investment capital is combined with additional public and private funds to finance the development and construction of the specific project or projects. The benefit of this early-stage “seed” financing is to jump-start the activity of construction, improvements, or repair in the absence of other funding sources. The timing and resources necessary to complete each project will vary depending on the nature of the project. Some projects are one-time events within a single development, while other projects are multi-phase long-term projects. The availability of early-stage alternative financing for infrastructure and construction projects initiates a chain reaction of economic development that results in significant new American job creation.