Davies & Associates: The Fifteen-Country Investor-Visa Firm Anchored at One World Trade Center

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Davies & Associates began in an Upper East Side apartment and grew into a firm with lawyers across fifteen countries — but its American center of gravity remains New York, where its U.S. regional office operates from One World Trade Center. Founder Mark Davies, a dual-qualified U.S.-U.K. lawyer and an immigrant who held multiple American visas before naturalizing, built the practice on the money-and-mobility end of immigration law: EB-5 investor green cards, E-2 treaty investments, L-1 transfers, and the citizenship-by-investment routes that connect global capital to American residence — a practice cited more than a thousand times in international media from the Wall Street Journal to the Economic Times.

At a Glance

Firm	Davies & Associates, LLC — a global immigration and corporate law firm; New York is the U.S. regional office (One World Trade Center), with U.S. offices including San Jose/San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Atlanta, and international offices including London (home office), Singapore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Rome, Jakarta, and Dubai
Founder & Global Managing Partner	Mark I. Davies, Esq. — Chair, Global Business & Investor Visa Practice
Focus	Investor and business immigration — EB-5 investor visas, E-1/E-2 treaty visas, L-1 transfers, TN visas, and citizenship-by-investment strategies (including the Grenada CBI-to-E-2 route) — with corporate law, business-plan drafting kept in-house, J-1 waivers, U visas, and family petitions alongside
Founder Credentials	J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School; dual-qualified — U.S. bars and U.K. (SRA-licensed; Member, Law Society of England & Wales); trained at two leading global U.S. law firms; former senior vice president overseeing a major corporation’s North American Law Group; an immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen
Leadership & Honors	Immediate past Chairman, Lawyers Without Borders (UN-affiliated NGO); Chair, In-House Counsel Section, Connecticut Bar Association; recipient of a White House Commendation for contributions to the legal profession; AILA member
Firm Claims	A 99.8% petition approval rate across EB-5, E-2, L-1, and I-130 (the firm’s own figure); media citations exceeding 1,000 including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and the Economic Times
Fee Structure	By consultation; unlimited reasonable calls and meetings for EB-5 clients per firm policy

Career History

Davies’ formation spans the Atlantic and the corporate ladder: a Penn Law degree, training at two leading global U.S. firms, dual qualification in England and Wales, and a senior vice presidency with oversight of a major corporation’s North American legal group — before founding his own firm from a New York apartment. His personal immigration history — multiple U.S. visas held before the green card and naturalization — is the firm’s founding narrative. The practice grew into an integrated fifteen-country firm; in 2026 its most senior lawyers consolidated in London to span Asian, European, and American time zones, with New York remaining the U.S. regional office. His institutional record runs beyond the firm: chairing Lawyers Without Borders, the UN-affiliated rule-of-law NGO; chairing the Connecticut Bar’s In-House Counsel Section; a White House Commendation; and advisory work on English legal reform undertaken with a major accounting firm for the U.K. government. His EB-5 commentary is a fixture of the investor-migration press.

Practice Concentration

The core is investment-linked mobility at every scale: EB-5 investor green cards — Davies’ personal practice focus, with the firm among the longest-standing EB-5 practices in the industry and a published conflict policy of never representing both investors and regional centers in the same transaction; E-2 and E-1 treaty visas, including the Grenada citizenship-by-investment route that opens E-2 eligibility to nationals of non-treaty countries; L-1 intracompany transfers; and the corporate-law work — entity formation, business-plan drafting kept deliberately in-house — that investor cases require. The rescue-and-exception line is real: client accounts include a TN visa obtained in two weeks after other lawyers said it was impossible, and one of only thirty J-1 physician waivers available in a client’s state. Family petitions, U visas, and removal work round out the individual practice. The client base runs from individual investors and entrepreneurs to nonprofits and major corporations worldwide, with particular depth in the Indian market.

Track Record

The firm’s headline figures are its own, and we attribute them as such: a 99.8 percent petition approval rate across its EB-5, E-2, L-1, and I-130 dockets, and earlier published claims of a perfect removal-defense record and no visa or green-card denials — marketing claims this research could not independently verify and which prospective clients should probe at consultation. The independently textured evidence is the published case-log the firm maintains — dated individual approvals across nationalities and consulates — and the client accounts above. Thousands of investors served over twenty years is the firm’s own characterization. Past results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future case.

Client Voice

The client record’s recurring themes are thoroughness and access: an E-2 client describing a team that worked the case around the clock and answered every question patiently; an EB-5 client calling the firm a guiding light through the process; the impossible-TN client turned lifelong advocate; and the firm’s stated structural promises — direct senior-lawyer access for every client, no outsourcing to unlicensed case managers, unlimited reasonable calls for EB-5 clients. The Avvo Clients’ Choice award (2013) and Davies’ 10.0 rating formalize the platform record. This research did not surface any public disciplinary findings.

Beyond the Courtroom

Davies’ Lawyers Without Borders chairmanship placed him at the head of a UN-affiliated NGO advancing rule-of-law work globally, and his board and leadership service across pro bono and diversity organizations, together with the White House Commendation, constitute a professional-citizenship record unusual for the investor-visa bar. The firm’s published guidance library on investor immigration serves a global readership beyond its clientele.

Recognition

Sorting per our standard: the Lawyers Without Borders chairmanship and Connecticut Bar section chair are peer-institutional offices; the White House Commendation is a governmental honor; the Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers listings are peer-informed recognitions from commercial publications; the Legal 100 and similar designations are commercial recognitions; the Avvo ratings are platform-based; and the media citations — WSJ, Bloomberg, Economic Times — are editorial recognition. The firm’s own approval-rate figures are marketing claims, labeled as such throughout. A disclosure we apply to every New York profile: New York State does not operate a board certification program for legal specialties comparable to the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, so no New York attorney profile on this site will describe its subject as a state-certified specialist, and this profile attributes no certification to the firm’s attorneys.

New York Legal Backdrop

Immigration law is federal, and investor immigration runs on its most capital-intensive machinery. The EB-5 program grants conditional green cards for qualifying at-risk investments in job-creating U.S. enterprises — with statutory investment thresholds, targeted-employment-area discounts, regional-center and direct routes, and a two-stage process in which conditions must later be removed by proving the jobs materialized; the field’s structural conflict, when one lawyer serves both the investor and the project raising money, is exactly what this firm’s published conflict policy addresses. The E-2 treaty-investor visa requires substantial at-risk investment in a bona fide enterprise but is available only to nationals of treaty countries — the gap that citizenship-by-investment programs like Grenada’s lawfully bridge, converting nationality itself into visa eligibility. L-1 transfers require qualifying corporate relationships; TN and E-3 routes run on treaty terms; and business-plan quality — the document this firm refuses to outsource — is frequently the adjudicative fulcrum for all of them. None of this is legal advice; consult a licensed immigration attorney about your situation.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

The case for Davies & Associates is global investor-immigration infrastructure with a New York anchor: genuine EB-5 and treaty-visa depth from one of the field’s longest-standing practices, a dual-qualified founder with corporate-counsel formation and institutional honors, fifteen-country reach matched to a clientele whose lives span borders, in-house business-plan capability, a published investor-first conflict policy, and a media standing that reflects real authority in the investor-migration field.

The honest trade-offs, stated plainly: the firm’s approval-rate and no-denial claims are its own marketing figures, unverifiable from outside and worth direct questioning at consultation; the marketing apparatus is extensive, spanning multiple branded websites; the 2026 consolidation of the most senior lawyers in London means New York clients should confirm which attorneys, in which time zone, will handle their matter; and this is an investor-and-business practice at its core — families with routine petitions or respondents needing courtroom removal defense will find better-fitted practices elsewhere in this directory.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys in August 2026 without the participation, sponsorship, or payment of Davies & Associates, LLC. Primary sources: the firm’s websites (usimmigrationadvisor.com and affiliated pages), including its about, professionals, EB-5, E-2, and investment-visa pages (the Upper East Side founding and fifteen-country structure; the London home-office consolidation and its rationale; the One World Trade Center New York capability; the 99.8% approval figure and EB-5 policies, attributed as the firm’s claims; the conflict policy; the in-house business-plan practice; the client accounts quoted in Track Record and Client Voice; Davies’ Penn Law degree, SRA licensure, Law Society membership, and career chronology; the Lawyers Without Borders chairmanship, Connecticut Bar section chair, and White House Commendation; the media-citation record). Independent verification: EB5Investors.com attorney directory (the founder biography including the immigrant history, global-firm training, and senior vice presidency; the office roster; the earlier success-rate claims, attributed; the Avvo Clients’ Choice 2013 and 10.0 rating; the AILA membership); the firm’s India-market contact pages (the Mumbai, New Delhi, and Bangalore offices). The federal-law framework in the Legal Backdrop reflects the Immigration and Nationality Act’s public provisions, including the EB-5 and treaty-visa statutes.

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