Seyfarth to Sponsor and Miles Borden, Michael Dowley and Steven Richman to Speak at IMN's US Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund Investing Forum

Seyfarth is a sponsor of IMN's US Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund Investing Forum taking place June 21-23 in Newport, RI.

Miles Borden, Real Estate partner, will serve as a speaker for "Transitioning From an Emerging to an Established Fund Manager." The panel will discuss:
• When do you start your second fund?
• Top concerns and pain points of launching and managing the first fund and how are those being addressed in subsequent fund launches
• Fees structures and economics: Do fund managers have more leverage in subsequent fund launches?
• Changes in capital raising strategies and reporting requirements
• New compliance considerations or changes to existing compliance structures
• Increased investor transparency

Michael Dowley, Corporate partner, will serve as moderator for "Mezz, Preferred & The Capital Stack." The panel will discuss:
• Specific lending availability, terms and how you see them trending going forward
• What do you have to do to get construction terms better than usual?
• Adaptive reuse, value-add and construction lending: How are you factoring in material delays and labor shortages?
• What do you see in the year ahead and what is concerning?
• Is more preferred being used?
• Equity with debt covenants
• What type of geographies, assets and products you aren’t pursuing
• Bridge to perm… Separate or together?

Steven Richman, Corporate partner, will serve as a speaker for "How Is Your LP Makeup Impacting Your Investment Strategy? Aligning LP/GP Interests." The panel will discuss:
• Different types of funds… Different relationships
• Pref & promote structures
• If there is a deal you like but it doesn’t match the fund strategy would you do the deal outside the fund? What would the fund investors think?
• Return expectations
• Equity return expectations of different investors
• Working with foreign investors