Buying with a non-US friend

[Daniel Mills]

Hi,

I am an American citizen living in Japan and recently two non-US friends have expressed an interest in buying some investments with me. Basically, I would be getting the loans and putting up some of the money and they would be putting up the rest of the cash. How can we do this? Should we set up an LLC or some other entity? Any advice on how to do this right?

Thanks