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Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT QIAN: And then let me just introduce you to the first speaker that we have today. Catherine Bishop is the senior attorney with the National Housing Law Project. She's one most experienced people in federally subsidized housing. She has over 30 years experience advocating on behalf of tenants and tenants rights in federally subsidized house. I know I have come to her office many, many times to ask questions about what tenants rights are in any ...

From the program: Pathways to Justice 2012: Special Housing Updates (Free)

Released on: Jun. 22, 2012

PLI has joined with the State Bar of California Office of Legal Services to share special sessions from the 2012 Pathways to Justice Conference.  The sessions will focus on hot topics in housing law, including affordable housing, tenant relocation and replacement housing in the wake of the foreclosure and economic crises, and recent developments in fair housing and anti-discrimination laws, litigation, and enforcement.  The panelists are ...

Recorded on: Oct. 10, 2012

LISA SITKIN: So the first session that we're going to jump into looks at post-foreclosure liability for the mortgage debt itself, and the protections, largely the California anti-deficiency statutes, that do offer a lot of protection for borrowers. Although not complete protection, so it's important to know where those lines are drawn. California is in many ways a lot more protective of its borrowers in terms of deficiency judgments, but there are ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

PATRICK J. O'CONNER, JR.: Let me start the introductions for our next topic. Our next two speakers are going to cover the same subject area. Private Public Partnerships, or Public Private Partnerships. Three P's, sometimes they're referred to, from different perspectives. So very-- a very important topic. It's an important topic because, certainly now-- with the limited resources that most municipalities and government entities have with respect ...

From the program: Real Estate Tax Forum (15th Annual)

Released on: Feb. 21, 2013

Our 15th anniversary program has been completely revised and will have a more transactional focus.  This new approach highlights the tax problems being encountered by practitioners in today’s typical commercial real estate transactions and structures, and examines the simple and sophisticated solutions being used by the experts.  Panels of nationally-recognized real estate tax experts from major law and accounting firms will provide ...

Recorded on: Jan. 13, 2012

MANNY: Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Manny Grillo, I'm a partner at Goodwin Procter. I'm the chair of the firm's bankruptcy practice. One, I'd like to thank those of you who are here in the room today for bearing the inclement weather, and also sort of hanging out till the end and enduring us. Hopefully we will make it worth your while for this last hour or so. I'd like to take a moment and introduce the members of the panel. All the way down ...

Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2013

EUGENE A. PINOVER: Good afternoon. The last panel today is an extraordinary panel with people from somewhat unusual backgrounds for this kind of program, but who have a tremendous amount to offer. On my far right is Glenn Rufrano. Glen is now the President and CEO of Cushman and Wakefield. He was, before that, the chief operating officer of Centro Properties in Australia. And he became the CEO of Centro because he had sold New Plan Excel to Centro ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

JONATHAN L. MECHANIC: The next part of the program, we're going to be talking to you about lending and things we're seeing in the lending market, today. We have, with us, two friends and outstanding members of the bar, Lou Hait, who is a partner at Kaye Scholer, who I've had the opportunity to spend a lot of quality time with this past year. And Lou has been very active in some of the major loan transactions in New York, little properties like a ...

Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2013

GIL MENNA: Welcome back. Here we are at the session on real estate M&A, titled REIT M&A 101 Changing Continuity. I'd like to introduce my panelists, and then we'll jump into the session. To my immediate left is Jim Hanks, a partner at Venable who defines the Maryland general corporation law, some of us would say, and is also a hero from years past. From the miracle on the Hudson, when he left here at the PLI event and ended up in the Hudson ...

Recorded on: Jun. 8, 2012

JONATHAN L. MECHANIC: We're now going to talk about the role of lenders and how that's changed, and we're lucky to have with us two extraordinary tal-- WILLIAM P. MCINERNEY: Now, you're going to learn the real facts. JONATHAN L. MECHANIC: Now we're going to learn the real facts. WILLIAM P. MCINERNEY: Not the special service and not the borrower. The real facts. JONATHAN L. MECHANIC: The real facts. Where we are on lending today. And with that, ...

From the program: Residential Lending after the Crash: An Update on How Dodd-Frank and the CFPB Have Changed the Rules of Home Loan Origination (Free)

Released on: Feb. 12, 2013

The rules of the road for residential lending have changed dramatically since the crash in 2008 and the subsequent passage of the Dodd-Frank amendments to the Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA) and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA).  In this training you will get an in-depth look at what’s new and what’s different, including an update on recent rulemaking by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).  Regulators ...

Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT: So thank you for staying with us through to the fourth hour. This hour we have Gideon Anders to present on rural housing issues. Gideon Anders is a senior attorney with the National Housing Law Project. He's also essentially the nation's recognized expert on rural housing service related issues, and essentially the number one person, or the go to person, on RHS related multifamily and single family issues. Gideon. GIDEON ANDERS: Thank you, ...

Recorded on: Jan. 13, 2012

GILBERT G. MENNA: We're going to start. And I know the folks in cyber land will want us to get going. We're very excited to have the SEC capital markets and development panel now between us and lunch. We know that we're between us and lunch. So we'll actually work hard to make it interesting. We're also excited about the fact that the last panel started talking about Revlon duties and Unical and top-ups. And so we get a little technical and not feel ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC YOUNG: I think what I'd like to do is go ahead and turn things over to Tom. We're going to have-- I'm giving Tom a little bit of extra time with his program. But I think he's got a lot to cover and, I'm sure, a lot of interesting things to say. Tom is a partner in the DC office of Hunton & Williams. He's admitted to practice in Virginia, Maryland, and DC. His practice focuses on all forms of real estate financing and acquisitions with particular ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: But for now, we're going to turn to our Rob Hellman and Dan Rubock, who are going to speak about the current state of the market and the current world of CMBS. Rob has 30 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry. He's an attorney, although he functions now as a Head of Asset Management and Head of the Investment Committee of Pembrook. He's also served as president, CEO, or CFO for a number of public real estate funds ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MEGHAN K CARNEY: Without further ado, it is now my pleasure to introduce to you the chairs of today's program, Martin Polevoy and Jonathan Mechanic. Martin is a partner of, and chair of, the New York real estate practice at DLA Piper, LLP. Martin's practice includes all areas of real estate, with particular emphasis on sales development, leasing, financing, and joint ventures. Martin's practice includes representing Port Authority of New York and ...

Recorded on: Jun. 8, 2012

MARTIN: Every year, we start off the program with Darcy Stacom who tells us what's happening out there in the event we're not really au courant as to the forces that are affecting real estate transactions. Unfortunately, today, Darcy is stranded in Chicago. But we are very fortunate to have Paul Gillen here today from CB Richard Ellis' institutional sales group to advise us as to what is the current state of the market, and where is the market heading? PAUL ...

From the program: Subsidized Housing Basics 2012 (Free)

Released on: Jul. 12, 2012

This substantive training provides a comprehensive overview of the federal housing programs, recent changes, current trends, and issues facing practitioners.  The training is designed for advocates with limited housing experience, but practitioners at all experience levels should be able to benefit from this training.  The panelists are noted experts in housing law who will cover a broad-ranged of topics in federally-subsidized housing with ...

Recorded on: Jun. 8, 2012

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: AND we are going to hear from both Ron Sernau Ross Silver, sorry, on negotiating purchase or sale agreements and transactions in 2012 and why things are a little different today in the current environment than they were a few years ago, certainly pre-2008. Ron Sernau is the co-head of Proskauer real estate group here in New York, and has been involved with been many significant transactions during the past 12 months, including ...

Recorded on: Oct. 24, 2012

SPEAKER 1: And it's now my pleasure to introduce to you one of our faculty, who's sitting in briefly for our chair-- who's is still on her way here today, but will be with us shortly-- is Lisa Sitkin. Lisa is managing attorney at Housing and Economic Rights Advocates. She's been practicing law since 1997, when she graduated from Stanford Law School. Prior to joining HERA, Ms. Sitkin litigated civil rights, media law, intellectual property, and advertising ...

Recorded on: Jan. 13, 2012

JOSHUA M. HOLMES: Welcome. This next panel is entitled Tax Issues in Recent REIT deals. And as Robin told me to say, I should tell you that this is going to be a terrific panel. But before jumping in, I'd like to take a moment to introduce the panelists in largely alphabetical order. To my immediate right is Christina Arumi, partner at Hogan and Lovells, who's the leader of their global tax practice. Christina regularly advises both public and private ...

Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2013

JODI SCHWARTZ: Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Jody Schwartz. I'm a partner at Wachtell, Lipton. And I'm delighted to be here this afternoon to talk a little bit about the tax aspects of REIT M&A. I have a very excellent and distinguished panel of Cristina Arumi, who's a partner at Hogan Lovells, a leader of their global tax practice, who practices primarily in the area of corporate and partnerships. And her experience includes, among other ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL E. MEYER: OK. So we're going to move on to our next segment which is Unanticipated Limitations in Long-Term Planning. And we're going to deal with primarily assignment and subletting, but also how we deal with certain rights for a tenant to extend and expand. And leading our discussion is going to be Jackie Park. Jackie is a partner at DLA Piper in Los Angeles. She spends basically all of her time doing real estate leases representing some ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL E. MEYER: Thank you. JOHN B. WOOD: Thank you. MICHAEL E. MEYER: We're going to bring Peter Roth up to go onto the next part of the program, which is good guy guaranties and takeover leases and takeover leases and small leases. So for some reason, landlords think that they should get paid. And the tenants are saying trust me or trust my entity. And there's a whole bunch of issues that come up in respect to credit enhancements and how it's ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: OK. Our next speakers are Steve Horowitz and Steve Klein. And they will discuss with us and relate to us about joint venture provisions that should receive special or extra attention when you have your discussions with your joint venture partner. Steve Horowtiz which is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb and is the chair of its real estate group. Steve has a very interesting practice. He concentrates not only on representing US folks, ...