Symas Capital Management, LLC was formed to provide Investors with risk adverse investments by partnering with companies and partners who will always consider the investors and clients needs first. When we decide to work with a new company, we go all in and become fully invested in all aspects of their business.
We’re looking for innovation, hard work and promise, and have a strict criteria for selecting our next partners. While we only invest in a handful of companies a year, it means we can focus solely on those who we believe really have the founders, team and drive to succeed.​ We are a team that has over 17 years of financial services experience, and have managed and structured over $250 million in investment capital.
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Thomas Lee serves as President and CEO of Symas Capital. Prior to forming Symas Capital, Thomas was a Vice President of Finance for a Real Estate Development Company specializing in structuring Senior and Mezzanine Debt and Equity Funds. Prior to transitioning into commercial real estate, Thomas was a Fixed Income Analyst at an asset management firm with over $5 billion AUM, where he handled analytics, due diligence and RFP requests, and reporting. He also worked at Morgan Stanley, where he obtained his FINRA Series 7 and Series 66 licenses. Thomas graduated from George Mason University’s School of Business with a B.S. in Finance and is currently pursuing his Master’s in Real Estate at Georgetown University.
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EB-5 Partners/Team​
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Michael Kester is a Partner and Lead EB-5 Economist with Impact DataSource, an economic research, analysis and consulting firm based in Austin, TX. In the past twenty years, Impact DataSource has completed more than 2,500 economic impact analyses in all industry sectors across the United States for firms, projects and activities.
Michael has been named a “Top EB-5 Economist” by the industry four years running (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 by EB-5 Investors Magazine). Michael is on the
Invest in the USA (IIUSA) EB-5 editorial committee, offering the economist’s perspective and authoring several articles for the Regional Center Business Journal.
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NES Financial, a JTC Group company, is the leading provider of third-party administrative solutions to US impact investment sectors, US private equity, 1031 exchanges, and other specialty markets. The company’s technology-driven solutions streamline new best practices in these complex sectors by simplifying specialized financial transactions, reducing back-office overhead, curtailing fraud and abuse, and helping ensure security, transparency and regulatory compliance during each step of an investment’s life cycle. For more information, visit nesfinancial.com.
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Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. (“Baker Donelson”) has served as counsel to the regional center and new commercial enterprise in the preparation of the offering. In doing so, Baker Donelson has not represented the interests of investors. Baker Donelson consists of more than 650 attorneys and public policy advisors covering more than 30 practice areas through 21 offices in the U.S. and is the 64th largest law firm in the United States.
Robert C. Divine leads the Global Immigration Group of Baker Donelson. Mr. Divine served from July 2004 until November 2006 as Chief Counsel and for a time Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS). He is the author of Immigration Practice, a 1,600 page practical treatise on all aspects of U.S. immigration law now in its Fifteenth Edition (see www.jurispub.com). He has practiced immigration law since 1986 and has served
as Chair of various committees of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He has served as Vice President of the Association to Invest in the USA (IIUSA), an association for EB-5 regional centers. Under his leadership, Baker Donelson serves a wide range of legal needs for regional centers, developers, and investors, including immigration, securities, business, real estate, tax, international, government investigations, and litigation.
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. and Robert Divine do not endorse or recommend any investment opportunity for any purpose, and a prospective investor should make his or her own evaluation of the merits of a particular investment opportunity for financial and immigration purposes, using the investor’s own counsel and advisors.