US Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund Investing Forum 2023

The latest challenges and opportunities facing the CRE market

Our team has decades of experience providing innovative investment counseling to some of the largest public and private pension funds, insurance companies, REITs, investment advisers, private equity firms, and other institutional investors. We are one of a few Am Law 100 firms also focused on areas such as Opportunity Zone Funds, DST offerings, and other alternative asset real estate investments.

Seyfarth Sessions

Our subject matter experts are proud to join the roster of moderators and panelists at the forum.

When: Thursday, June 22, 11:20 a.m.

Panelist: Miles M. Borden, Partner (Real Estate)

Panel Description:

  • 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

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When: Thursday, June 22, 12:05 p.m.

Moderator: Michael F. Dowley, Partner (Corporate and Real Estate)

Panel Description:

  • 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?

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When: Thursday, June 22, 2:45 p.m.

Panelist: Steven A. Richman, Partner (Tax)

Panel Description:

  • 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

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Meet Our Conference Attendees

Real estate sellers and buyers, joint venture partners, lenders and borrowers, developers, and landlords and tenants seek Miles' advice and practical solutions for structures and the terms of their transactions.

Miles Borden, Partner
Real Estate

With a broad range of transactional experience and business acumen, Lou has been involved in numerous financings with complicated wrinkles, such as exotic collateral, different tranches of debt, acquisition financing, and real estate involvement.

Louis J. DiFronzo, Partner
Corporate
Mike's experience makes him keenly aware of the business and legal issues facing a wide-ranging spectrum of businesses from new and growing real estate investment companies to well established institutional banks. 
Michael F. Dowley, Partner
Corporate & Real Estate

John practices federal, state and local tax law, and advises public and private clients on tax issues relating to corporate mergers and acquisitions, international transactions, restructurings, consolidations, financing, real estate (including REITs), tax free like kind 1031 exchanges, subchapter S corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, and limited liability companies.

John P. Napoli, Partner
Tax
In the investment arena, Steven serves as investment counsel to institutional investors such as large public pension funds, private pension funds (large and small), endowments and foundations, and family offices. 
Steven A. Richman, Partner
Tax
John focuses his practice primarily on corporate structuring, capital raise matters, commercial financing products, joint ventures, and a comprehensive range of other general corporate and real estate-related matters. 
John W. Tully, Associate
Corporate
David has a substantial practice representing both sponsors of and institutional investors in US and offshore private equity funds, real estate funds, hedge funds, and joint ventures.
David M. Warburg, Partner
Corporate

In today’s competitive market, clients look to Cameron for legal solutions to the strategic and operational challenges presented by the real estate and capital markets.

Cameron Weil, Partner
Real Estate