Chapter 19: Marco Lopez on Intermestic Capital’s EB-5 Investment Philosophy
In this chapter of our exclusive interview series, Michael Gibson speaks with Marco Lopez, Managing Partner at Intermestic Capital, about how his firm approaches EB-5 projects differently.
Lopez highlights that while EB-5 requires job creation, Intermestic goes beyond the minimum—ensuring that projects make sense economically and provide investors with strong safeguards.
“The American dream is only attainable if investors find a project with these types of safeguards, with people around them with the passion and the commitment to make sure that success is achieved with them.” – Marco Lopez
With over 3,300 jobs created (more than four times what is required), the EVelution Energy cobalt project stands out as a secure, economically viable, and socially impactful EB-5 investment.
Evelution Energy Interview Chapter 19
Michael Gibson, USAdvisors, interviews Marco Lopez, Managing Partner Intermestic Capital
Transcript
EVelution Energy Interview Chapter 19 Transcript
Michael Gibson, Managing Director of US Advisors (USAdvisors.org) an independent Registered Investment Advisory Firm. Michael also owns and runs EB-5 Investments (eb5projects.com) and is an EB5 industry expert.
Marco Lopez, Managing Partner, Intermestic Capital
Sergio Chavez-Moreno, Operating Partner Intermestic Capital
Dennis Cunningham, Operating Partner Intermestic Capital, President EB5 Horizon
Michael Gibson, speaking
Yeah and, and what, what fascinates me about Intermestic is that, I mean even though this is your first EB5 project, you, you are a capital firm. You, you focus on risk. You focus on how does the investor do well in, in investing in other projects, that you may be associated with. So you, from what I understand, you're taking the same philosophy of trying to find projects that make good sense economically. And now you're bringing it to an EB5. So we have the job creation component. But then in addition, you want to make sure that the project makes sense economically.
Marco Lopez, speaking
That's right. So look, in this particular case we know that the job, that the, the project is going to create over 3,300 jobs. And we're not, we're not gonna need those jobs, to justify our project.
Michael Gibson, speaking
The excess, you have at least a 4X excess margin.
Marco Lopez, speaking
That’s right. So that's the type of thinking that went into our selection of this project. Because we want to provide the investor that guarantee. That, it's my 25 years in government service on the line. It's their reputations and, and expertise and knowledge on the line, from their careers as well. And it's also the reputation and careers of our development partners. That, obviously you, you, you interviewed as well. The stakes are high. And in this world, where people can select multiple projects, where they wanna invest their funds. The American dream is only attainable, if they find a project with these types of safeguards, with people around them with the passion, the commitment, to make sure that success is achieved with them. Because we've seen so many projects, unfortunately here in Arizona, that have not fulfilled the promise, that they've set out to, the value that they've set out to create for their investors.