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As wealth continues to accumulate across the globe, HNWI's are looking to diversify their citizenship for greater ease of travel, better quality of life, diversifying assets and safety of their families. The range of countries offering citizenship programmes is both diverse and complicated and only one event is tailored to showcase the benefits of all the global programmes to the Chinese Market in dual translation.

Join us in Hong Kong, 11-12 November at the Peninsula Hotel

Investment Immigration Summit, Hong Kong

The only event in Asia that attracts over 250 immigration professionals from China and the world.

Organised by Beacon Events in partnership with the Harvey Law Group who won the Immigration Law Firm of the Year Award, the 2nd Annual Investment Immigration Summit Hong Kong is the leading immigration conference in Asia, attracting China's top immigration agents & consultants, private bankers and wealth managers, as well as international immigration law firms, government officials and other immigration experts from around the world.

Held at the Peninsula Hotel on 11-12 November, 2014, over 250 immigration professionals will gather in Hong Kong to discover the latest opportunities and strategies specifically designed for Chinese HNWI and their families to access the world's investment immigration / citizenship-by-investment programmes. Be sure to attend to network and forge lasting business relationships over 2 interactive days of high level debate.

The conference is accredited by the Law Society of Hong Kong and it is awarded with 11 CPD points. If you are a lawyer practicing in the immigration field in Asia, Investment Immigration Summit is a great way to get first-hand information about the latest immigration investment programs and developments in the market while gaining credits for your continued professional development.

It is without a doubt that China's wealth individuals are fast becoming some of the best sources of foreign direct investment, especially due to the increasing availability of Investment Immigration, or Citizenship by Investment programmes around the world.

While countries such as the USA, UK, Australia and Canada are considered as some of the more popular choices for emigrating Chinese nationals, immigration experts around the world are also seeing huge opportunity for China's wealthy to invest offshore and immigrate overseas which often offer fast processing times, lower cost and greater freedoms.

To learn more about the Investment Immigration Summit please download the brochure.

When analyzing an investment account, the provisions of FATCA require the account to be classified into one of the following three categories:

• 'Approved' as of 1 July 2014
• 'Limited conditional' until the end of 2015.
• These administrators are deemed to be FATCA compliant and may register first and verify their status later.
• Rejects

The enormous quantity of FFIs that fall into neither category. The IRS calls them 'rejects' The first step in seeking 'limited conditional' status is to establish whether or not a U.S. individual or entity is part of a foreign financial institution (FFI) and then whether the FFI concerned is in a jurisdiction that restricts the provision of information. If this is indeed the case, then 'limited conditional' registration is awarded and the FFI is declared compliant with FATCA. This means that the FFI can sign the new W8 BEN-E declaration. If not, then the FFI must first register for a Global Intermediary Identification Number (GIIN) before it can sign the W8 BEN-E. It is possible for an FFI to be dealing with restricted and unrestricted information. An example would be an FFI having both a Foreign Retirement Plan and a Mutual Fund would mean this FFI would have ''limited conditional'' covering the retirement plan and a GIIN covering the mutual fund.

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The last 5 years have seen an enormous increase in the volume of regulations with which firms must comply. Many of these regulations effectively amount to capital control, including FATCA, with its far-reaching powers of enforcement. Despite freedom of movement of capital in the EU, the same applies in practice as a result of the AIFMD.

Justification for these new regulations, including those governing the exchange of financial information, ranges from a need to uncover and reduce tax fraud, to narrowing the gap between expected and actual tax revenues. On the other side of the coin, there is an argument that both the EU through its directive of 2003 and its subsequent upgrade in 2014 and the U.S. through its formal legal determination on foreign retirement plans are being overly prescriptive.

Whatever the views of the nature and depth of the regulations, it is clear that non-compliance is not an option. And it is equally clear that complexity will only increase. Rigorous - and necessarily flexible - compliance programs are here to stay.

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Professionally assisting individuals, shareholders, and corporations, raise capital and obtain liquidity is Silverbear Capital's raison d'etre. By design they are a small agile group of seasoned professionals primarily experienced in securities collateralized lending, and international banking and finance.

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Silverbear Capital are always on the lookout for international share based financing opportunities in the $1MM-$50MM range. They also enjoy consulting with public entities regarding M&A, uplisting and capital raising strategies, with an emphasis on synergistic partnerships with companies located in Hong Kong and mainland China. Along those lines, they also serve to assist individuals and companies with making inroads to these regions, and can make introductions with nearly any industry in the Asian markets within a matter of days.

Silverbear Capital are global in scope and reach, with extraordinary access in Hong Kong and other Asian markets.

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