Real Estate

Financing

Published: September 2009

Published: June 2011

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: 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. 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 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. 15, 2012

MARC YOUNG: Good afternoon and welcome back. I'm pleased now to introduce my friend Michael Hamilton. Michael is a partner at DLA Piper in Los Angeles. Michael's practice focuses on business transactions, with a particular emphasis on finance and real estate matters. Michael is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. And as you will see from his bio, he's written and lectured extensively on subjects related to the real estate industry ...

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: 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: 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. 15, 2012

MARC YOUNG: All right, ladies and gentlemen. We're going to resume for our final session of the day. And I'm happy to introduce to you Carol Robertson. Carol's been practicing law for over 30 years, including as a partner at a major San Francisco law firm and as corporate counsel with several San Francisco Bay Area companies, including her current position at the Clorox company. Where she supports the global real estate and facilities group and works ...

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: 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

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: 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: 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: Mar. 29, 2012

MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Part two of the presentation this morning, "From the Trenches," how bankruptcy courts deal with mortgage debt. Cathy Moran is going to lead on this. And let me tell you a little bit more about her. She's a certified specialist in bankruptcy. She's practiced law in San Francisco since 1978. She's a graduate of Stanford and of Hastings College of Law, was a member of Hastings Law Journal and elected to the Order of the Coif. She ...

Recorded on: Mar. 29, 2012

SPEAKER: Thanks so much. Back to you. MAEVE ELISE BROWN: Great. Thank you very much. OK, we're going to go ahead and resume. And before we climb into the meat of the third hour, I want to get to some more of the questions. Somebody had a question in the audience as the last hour was closing. Sir, do you still have one? Otherwise I'll move to online. AUDIENCE: I just had a question. How does the bankruptcy court have jurisdiction to impose sanctions ...

Course Handbook from the program Consumer Financial Services Institute (17th Annual), held April, 2012.

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 ...

Course Handbook from the program Negotiating Real Estate Deals 2012, held June, 2012.

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: 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. 8, 2012

JONATHAN L. MECHANIC: We have quite entertaining segment of the program. We have the two Steves. Sometimes that's Steve Roth and Steve Ross, and sometimes it's Steve Horowitz and Steve Klein. STEVE D. KLEIN: These are the ones without the money. JONATHAN L. MECHANIC: A little less money. So Steve Horowitz is a partner at Cleary, chair of the real estate group. Steve's practice concentrates on US and international transactions, including mortgage ...

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, ...