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Recorded on: Jun. 29, 2012

KENT QIAN: I think we have reached the 10:15 mark, so that's the signal for me to transition to our next topic, which will be admission issues in federally subsidized housing. And to guide us through that, Meliah Schultzman will be the presenter for this part. Ms. Schultzman is an attorney at a national housing law project. She is involved in policy advocacy and litigation to advance the rights of tenants in federally subsidized housing programs ...

Recorded on: Apr. 4, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings, my name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Anti-Money Laundering Program, New Challenges for Non-bank Mortgage Lenders and Originators. Before I 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 ...

Recorded on: Nov. 6, 2012

HOWARD J. WEG: All right. Welcome back, everybody. We're into the home stretch. I saved the best for last, I'd like to think. This particular panel is going to cover the topic of executory contracts and unexpired leases. My co-panelist, Ali Mojdehi, from Cooley Godward in San Diego's office has come up here to participate. And we've sort of divided the various topics that we're going to cover into smaller little bites, so I'll speak, then Ali will ...

Recorded on: Nov. 7, 2012

Taken from the Web Program Nuts and Bolts of Corporate Bankruptcy 2012 Recorded November, 2012 in San Francisco Assumption of Rejection of Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases [01:06:39] The purchase price of this segment includes the following article(s) from the Course Handbook available online: Bankruptcy Guide Andrew P. DeNatale Summary of the Treatment of Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases Under Section 365 ...

From the program: Bankruptcy, Mortgages and Foreclosure: What Bankruptcy Can and Can't Do for Borrowers in Distress

Released on: Apr. 12, 2012

In this training you will get an overview of how consumer bankruptcy interacts with mortgage debt and foreclosures.  During the session, practitioners working at the intersection of these two crucial areas in consumer law will provide a basic overview of consumer bankruptcy; share tools for assessing whether bankruptcy might help - or harm - a delinquent borrower; and discuss how bankruptcy can be used to address mortgage ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC D. YOUNG: Alright. Well, welcome back for the final installment of this morning's program. I'm delighted to introduce Professor Christine Tour-Sarkissian. Professor Tour-Sarkissian is in private practice but also a Adjunct Professor of Law at Golden Gate University Law School, where she has been teaching for the last 16 years. She teaches courses on real estate finance, real estate transactions, and real estate litigation. She has numerous publications ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARK YOUNG: OK, folks. Why don't we get started? I'm pleased now to introduce to you Danna Kozerski, who is the co-managing partner of the Coblentz, Patch, Duffy, & Bass firm here in San Francisco. Danna engages in a broad range of real estate transactions, including financings, joint venture formations, and leasing and acquisitions and dispositions of real property. She represents both lenders and borrowers in all manner of financings, landlords ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC D. YOUNG: All right. Well, we're going to move on to our next panel. And I'm pleased to introduce our next two speakers. Bill Bernfeld is a bankruptcy lawyer at K&L Gates, but his focus for the last 25 years has been on real estate where he advises clients in the areas of financings, workouts, leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, and creditors' rights. Bill is a prolific writer and lecturer on subjects related to real property. He has for ...

From the program: Building Better Construction Contracts 2012

Released on: Oct. 2, 2012

Traditional construction contracts do not work as well as they should to align the parties' interests and clearly define rights and responsibilities. As a consequence, the design and construction process is more dispute prone than it needs to be. This course is designed to give you the tools you need to better negotiate and draft design and construction agreements. You will learn which risk allocation clauses, including the so-called "killer ...

Recorded on: Jan. 13, 2012

ROBIN PANOVKA: OK, we're gonna get started with the next panel. And hopefully our last panelist will join us soon. We have another terrific panel and a great segment coming up. It's entitled Acquisitions in Consolidating Markets. And we're gonna take a little bit of a case study approach, getting into some of the issues that have come up in some recent deals out there, both public to public deals and private to public deals. By way of background, ...

Recorded on: Jan. 13, 2012

ADAM EMMERICH: I guess we can just get going. We're a little bit behind, so apologies. Hopefully the first panel had more than enough material. So naturally, it ran over. We'll try and do the same. Let me just introduce. I'm Adam Emmerich from Wachtell, Lipton. I'll do my best to moderate the panel this morning. I'll introduce our panelists and say a couple words to sort of set the scene. And then, ask people some questions. We can hopefully get ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL E. MEYER: OK, we're going to start in. Welcome back on Friday morning. It's my pleasure to introduce you to, in addition to John Wood and myself for today's first session, is Conrad Breece. And he's with a major law firm in San Francisco, and has a great deal of experience over the past 20 years in representing commercial landlords such as Embarcadero, and tenants such as IKEA. Did I say that right? And-- CONRAD D. BREECE: And, and then, ...

From the program: Negotiating Commercial Leases: How Owners & Corporate Occupants Can Avoid Costly Errors 2012

Released on: Nov. 2, 2012

Leases are the building blocks of value for all real estate, and whether your client is entering into a lease, acquiring a leasehold, purchasing a Ground Lease or investing in or lending on properties, knowing the “Commercial Lease” in and out is a must. Knowing the current commercial leasing market trends, hot topics and current schemes is the most important investment one can make. Leases are long-term investments and your client or ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

SPEAKER 1: I'm now delighted to introduce the chair of today's program, Michael E. Meyer. Michael Meyer is a partner at DLA Piper LLP where he specializes in real estate and project development. He has developed a national reputation as one of the leading leasing attorneys in the United States. He regularly represents leading financial institutions, accounting firms, and law firms in connection with major lease transactions throughout the United ...

Recorded on: Feb. 15, 2012

MARC YOUNG: Well, I am now happy to introduce Kahlil Yearwood, who is an associate with the finance and real estate practice at Dechert. Mr. Yearwood's practice focuses on commercial real estate finance and capital markets. He represents various CMBS lenders, portfolio lenders, loan servicers, subordinate bond buyers, private equity firms, and debt fund managers in transactions involving the origination and structuring of real-estate-related loans. In ...

From the program: Commercial Real Estate Institute (14th Annual)

Released on: Nov. 23, 2012

As commercial real estate slowly recovers from the recession, practitioners will need a broad skill set to achieve and maintain a viable real estate practice. This program helps practicing attorneys enhance traditional transactional skills, and develop workout and enforcement skills, so that they can help their clients regain their footing more quickly. Lecture Topics  [Total time 12:51:20] Segments with an asterisk (*) are available only ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MIKE MEYER: So thank you for being here, stay here. I need to bring up our two new panelists. And we're in for a great treat. What are you [INAUDIBLE]? OK. They're on their way up? They're making a grand entrance? It's like, let's make a deal. Come on down, it's 10 o'clock, 10:02, it's coming out of their time. But the two people who are walking in and making this grand entrance, we're really lucky to have. One is Alan Robin who, there's no better ...

Recorded on: Mar. 29, 2012

MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Other lending abuses, as well. So with that, let me see if there is any other housekeeping stuff. Wonderful panel here this morning. I will introduce them all. And then I will tell you a little bit more about your first speaker. So this morning, we have Sally J. Elkington, Cathy Moran, and Lisa Sitkin, two private practitioners in the bankruptcy arena, and Lisa Sitkin, managing attorney at Housing and Economic Rights Advocates. Sally ...

Recorded on: Aug. 9, 2012

Taken from the briefing Contracts for Green Buildings: Solving the Split Incentive Problem and Contracting Well for Green Performance recorded August, 2012. With the increased popularity of LEED-certified buildings and other green aspects of building, contracting or leasing for green has increased in complexity.  Many commercial leases are structured in a manner that actually discourages energy saving improvements, and we will ...

Recorded on: Aug. 23, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Contracts for Green Buildings, Solving the Split Incentive Problem and Contracting Well for Green Performance. 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 ...

Recorded on: Oct. 10, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Maeve Elise and Lisa. MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Great. Welcome back. Thank you. OK in our final segment, we're going to talk a little bit about credit and foreclosure. So let's go ahead and jump in. One of the monstrous and unintended consequences of course of the foreclosure crisis is millions and millions of people whose credit has been pummeled. And what is going to happen to them remains to be seen. I offer the stat about how many homeowners ...

From the program: Tax, Credit and Other Financial Consequences of Foreclosures, Short Sales and Mortgage Loan Principal Forgiveness (Free)

Released on: Oct. 24, 2012

This training will help improve your ability to counsel homeowners in financial distress.  The training will provide an overview of the financial issues - including tax and credit consequences - homeowners may face after a foreclosure, short sale or loan modification.  Tax experts will explain the fundamentals of how cancelled mortgage debt is treated under state and federal tax law, and provide insights into changes ...

Recorded on: Mar. 22, 2012

LESLIE H. LOFFMAN: It is my great privilege to introduce Stef Tucker, who's a partner at the law firm Venable. He is a dear, dear friend. And you know what, before anything else, he is a good soul, and that's more important than all the other things I'm about to tell you. But he is an amazing lawyer-- focuses on M&A, entity planning and structuring, asset protection and preservation, family business issues, wealth preservation-- he is a generalist ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL MEYER: So with all of that said, that's a hell of an introduction for 45 minutes. But John, like myself, has served as an expert witness, an arbitrator, served as a judge pro tem, but basically he's a real estate lawyer. And all he does this deals. And he wrote a lease a long time ago that got his name in the Wall Street Journal. It was actually a complimentary article about him. But it was writing about how tough that lease was. And-- why ...

Recorded on: Jun. 8, 2012

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: Welcome back to the afternoon session of our program. We are very pleased to have with us Richard Fries and Jim Hough to kick off this segment on Distress Loan Work Outs and Lender Liabilities, which will segue very nice into the conversations we had this morning, with Greg Cross, Representing Special Services. Richard, who's my former partner, is the head of the New York Real Estate Practice at Bingham McCutcheon. And Richard ...