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Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

LINDA TAM: Thank you so much. That was very informative. I learned a lot. So our next panel is dealing with-- it's very hard to deal with immigration, domestic violence and housing, and not touch a little bit on family law, because it's kind of within the realm of all of those issues that we've been talking about. So our next panelists, Khanh Nguyen and Hongvilay Thongsamouth will be talking about common family law issues that arise when immigrants ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: OK, thanks for returning after the break, everyone. Our next speaker is Guy Dempsey who is going to speak about derivatives, specifically interest rate caps and swaps as used in commercial real estate transactions. These features do appear in deal after deal after deal. And we all kind of look at them from a real estate perspective. Guy is an expert on derivatives from the perspective of how they're structured, how you set them up, ...

From the program: International Estate & Tax Planning 2013

Recorded on: Apr. 24, 2013

Taken from the Web Program International Estate & Tax Planning 2013 recorded April, 2013 in New York.Lecture Topics  [00:56:44]Planning for the Acquisition, Ownership, and Disposition of U.S. Residential Real Estate by Non-U.S. Persons [00:56:44] Alternative ownership structures: Domestic trusts, foreign trusts, corporations, LLCs, partnerships U.S. income tax considerations U.S. estate tax considerations Practical considerations ...

Recorded on: Jan. 13, 2012

MEGHAN FORGIONE: Good morning. My name is Meghan Forgione and I'm a program attorney with the Practising Law Institute. It's my pleasure to welcome you to PLI's Real Estate M&A and Retransactions 2012. And welcome to our webcast attendees as well. Now I'm delighted to introduce to you the chairs of today's program, Robin Panovka and Gil Menna. Robin is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, where he specializes in mergers and acquisitions, ...

Recorded on: Jan. 17, 2013

MEGAN: And now it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you the chairs of today's program, Adam Emmerich and Warren Gorrell. Adam is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz where he focuses his practice primarily on mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the REIT and publicly traded real estate areas as well as on corporate governance and securities law matters. Adam is the co-author of a number of books and articles and is a frequent ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL E. MEYER: So here's the person I was referring to who has agreed to take the last slot on a Friday afternoon to talk about insurance. His name is Jay Paxton. He's one of the leading lawyers in the state of California. He's done things that make me envious. For example, he represented Carnegie Mellon University in establishing its West Coast campus on a ground lease land at the NASA Ames Research Park, and represents the University of California ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC D. YOUNG: Well, it's my pleasure to introduce my friend Sarah Spyksma. Sarah's been practicing for almost 25 years now. And Sarah's practice is a broad-based practice. She represents real estate developers, financial institutions, non-institutional lenders and investors, real estate opportunity funds in a broad range of different real estate transactions, including all manner of financing transactions, joint ventures, preferred equity investments, ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: Good morning, everybody. We are reconvening for day two. We're going to focus for the first hour on-- actually it's an hour and 15 minute slot focusing on multiple lender issues. We're going to start off with Mezzanine loans and inter-creditor issues, and then move to A/B loans, Junior/Senior participations. For this segment we are fortunate to have two leading real estate lawyers from New York City and nationally. Our first speaker ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC YOUNG: All right. Good morning, everyone and welcome back. It's my distinct pleasure this morning to introduce my friend and colleague Tom Fileti. Tom is one of my partners at Morrison & Foerster. He's in the LA office where he heads the real estate practice group. Tom's practice emphasizes real estate financing and credit transactions of all types. He's often involved in transaction [INAUDIBLE], including acquisitions and dispositions of ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

PATRICK J. O'CONNOR JR.: Welcome back everybody from your networking interlude. This particular presentation will take us to lunch. This is an interesting presentation. What we're going to do is cover a number of fairly interesting risk allocation issues with an emphasis on you looking at 2008 and how things have changed since 2008 and what that means for the design and construction industry. And we've got three panelists. I'm going to be your moderator ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC YOUNG: Well, I think we'll go ahead and get started with this afternoon's sessions. It's my great pleasure to introduce Joan Story. Joan is a partner at Sheppard Mullin. Her practice there emphasizes real estate investment, financing, and leasing transactions. Her clients include developers, institutional and foreign investors, corporate real estate users, pension funds, and pension fund advisers. One of Joan's main clients is DHL, whom she's ...

Recorded on: Feb. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: OK, thank you everybody, for coming back for the afternoon session. I shouldn't touch the microphone. Sorry about that. That's to wake everybody up. I'm going to be speaking about ground leases because ground leases are a very common ownership structure, particularly in New York, California, Florida, Texas, Maryland, and a few other places, perhaps everywhere. They come up again and again, and a certain set of issues keep coming up again ...

From the program: New Developments in Residential Loan Servicing: State, Federal and Programmatic Laws, Regulations and Standards (Free)

Released on: May. 20, 2013

The rules of the road for residential mortgage servicing have changed significantly since the crash in 2008. Since then, a wide variety of agencies, including Congress, federal banking regulators, state attorneys general and the California legislature, have all sought to improve loan servicers’ practices, particularly in connection with the loss mitigation process. The result is a series of overlapping rules, laws and regulations –  from the ...

Recorded on: Oct. 25, 2012

Don’t miss this important Free Briefing in recognition of National Pro Bono Celebration Week! Taken from the briefing Making the Most of California's New Homeowner Bill of Rights recorded October, 2012. On July 11, 2012, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law key provisions of Attorney General Kamala Harris’ Homeowner Bill of Rights.  This landmark legislation is designed to protect California homeowners from losing their ...

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub, and I am program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Making the Most of California's New Homeowner Bill of Rights. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the course handbook tab ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

PATRICK J. O'CONNOR, JR: Our next program, we're going to be talking about owners project controls. And we're also going to be talking about scheduling one of the-- I think one of the areas that the standard contract forms handle with a fair amount of brevity is scheduling. And of course, scheduling is important on almost any construction project. And so I asked my partner, Peter Halls, who's sitting down farthest to the right from me. Peter and I ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

PATRICK J. O'CONNOR: Good afternoon. And we're back for the afternoon session. I know that people will straggle in as is inevitably the case after we do our lunch break. But because there's so many people on the web in this program, I want to make sure that we do start on time. This program, this particular presentation, the next hour will be devoted to two topics-- insurance and surety bonds. I'm going to handle insurance, and Deb Griffin on my ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

M YOUNG: My next pleasure is to introduce Dean Pappas, who's a partner at Goodwin Procter in Los Angeles. Dean is a member of the real estate REITs and Real Estate Capital Markets group, and his practice centers around all manner of real estate and corporate activities, including structuring, negotiating, drafting, and closing various real estate and corporate transactions, joint venture formations, M&A and disposition transactions involving ...

Recorded on: Jan. 14, 2013

ROBERT RISOLEO: I would like, while the next presenters make their way up here, I would like to introduce Chris Gavin who's a partner of Stuart's at Mayer Brown, but in the New York office, Stuart's in Chicago. Chris concentrates his practice on structured finance transactions, both in the US in the around the world, including in emerging markets. His biography is detailed and very impressive. Chris is new to the program, to the faculty, this year ...

Recorded on: Apr. 10, 2012

ALAN S. KAPLINSKY: OK. We're ready to begin. This will be the final panel before we break for lunch. And I'm sure it's gonna be a lively one, where the topic is mortgage litigation. You've already heard quite a bit, both yesterday and earlier today, with the state AGs and the New York Banking Department, about what they're doing in the mortgage area. Our focus here is gonna be a bit more on private litigation. And we've got two highly qualified people ...

Recorded on: Jun. 11, 2012

CHANCELA AL-MANSOUR: So we're basically right on time to start the very beginning of Navigating Anti-Discrimination Laws and Housing, and I turn the platform over to Stephanie Haffner. STEPHANIE HAFFNER: So hello everyone who's in the room with us and to folks who are also at Hastings and elsewhere. Thank you for the introduction, Chancela. I am talking to you first about basic fair housing law, so fair housing 101-- as an introduction to the fair ...

Recorded on: Jan. 31, 2013

MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Turn it over to them. LISA SITKIN: Thanks. Good morning. I'll just give a disclaimer that I have the cold that's going around, so I apologize if I sneeze, or cough, or make any weird sounds. So we wanted to start just with a little bit of background and overview. What we're going to try to do today is to familiarize you with where we are now. And where we're going to be in about a year when a lot of the rules we're discussing ...

Released on: Apr. 11, 2013

Taken from the briefing New OCC Foreclosure Settlements: Moving on From the Independent Foreclosure Review Process recorded March, 2013. Millions of homeowners have lost their homes and been subjected to unlawful conduct by mortgage servicing companies in the context of both judicial and non-judicial foreclosure proceedings around the country. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve recently announced that they reached ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC D. YOUNG: OK, welcome back. This is the final panel of the day, and I'm very pleased to introduce Pauline Stevens and Steve Weise. Pauline is a partner in the L.A. office of Allen Matkins, where she's a member of the Finance and Capital Markets and Banking and Financial Institutions groups. Pauline-- you didn't know that. STEVEN WEISE: Little did you know. PAULINE STEVENS: Didn't know that. Pauline, I think the next you'll agree with-- that ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

LINDA TAM: All right, everyone. If we can kind of gather back. All right, everyone. So the first two sessions today, what [INAUDIBLE] just did, and then our next session, which is an orientation to domestic violence are really setting the stage for us in working at the intersection of these three issues of housing, domestic violence, and immigration. So we're kind of doing the big picture, and then we're sort of going to narrow down later on towards ...