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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: Feb. 12, 2013

We'll move on to the second part of our presentation, and this presentation is from the bank's perspective. And Peter Barwick is going to speak about the way mortgage securities are held by the banks, the corporate trust issues. And Rich Haber and Jeff Jaffee are going to talk about the economics of mortgage servicing. And thank you very much gentlemen. PETER S. BARWICK: Good afternoon. Thanks, Joe. Thank you all for braving the elements to get here. ...

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. 19, 2013

JOSHUA STEIN: Our next topic's going to be how a borrower negotiates loan documents. Our speaker is Andy Herz. Andy is a partner at Patterson, Belknap, Webb, and Tyler here in New York City, member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and a lawyer listed in the Best Lawyers in America. Chambers described Andy as quote, "an incredible leasing lawyer, probably the best in the city in terms of leasing. He's not bad on loan documents, ...

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 ...

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. 17, 2013

ADAM EMMERICH: Hi. Good morning again. I'm Adam Emmerich. As Warren mentioned-- one of the co-chairs today-- we're going to talk on this panel about some case studies-- REIT Acquisitions in a Globalizing World. And we're fortunate to have-- I guess it's as was mentioned in the first panel kind of some sort of ageist criteria to participate today. Because everybody on this panel also has upwards of 25 years of experience in the REIT and Real Estate ...

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, ...

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: May. 15, 2013

SHARON DJEMAL: Which leads us to our first hour entitled Client Counseling and Advocacy: The Role of Race, Class and Culture, which will explore how we can increase our own cultural competency and literacy. And as a result, become better advocates for our clients. This session will be led by Tirien Steinbach, who is the executive director of the East Bay Community Law Center and a lecturer at Berkeley Law School. Please join me in welcoming Tirien ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: Welcome back to the second session of the morning program. And we're about to hear from Ron Sernau and Rob Sorin, relating to successfully negotiating a contract of sale and what are the things one has to do to close a transaction. With us, we have, as I said, Ron Sernau, who's the co-chair of the real estate department of Proskauer Rose. Ron has represented some of the most prominent real estate developers in New York, as well ...

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 ...

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. 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 ...

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 ...

Recorded on: Jun. 10, 2013

MARTIN D. POLEVOY: Welcome back for the second part of the program. We have with us Richard Fries and Jamie Levitt. Richard Fries is the co-chair of the real estate department of Bingham McCutchen. He represents institutional lenders and owners in distress loan workouts and in restructuring of various financing instruments. Some of his recent transactions included representing lenders in the Carlton House renovation project on Madison Avenue and ...

Recorded on: May. 15, 2013

SHARON DJEMAL: Hi everyone. Welcome back from lunch. I'm really looking forward to this next panel on domestic violence and housing. This session is going to focus on how California laws, the Fair Housing Act, and the Violence Against Women Act protect survivors of domestic violence from denial of housing, help them defend and avoid evictions, and aid survivors in maintaining safe and stable housing. These panelists have prepared a very thorough ...