Quench Your Thirst in the Desert: ACREL`s Fountain of

Quench Your Thirst in the Desert:
ACREL’s Fountain of Knowledge
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FRIDAY PROGRAM PAPERS
Liquid Real Estate:
West, East, and Coastal Development Obstacles – It’s High Tide to Focus on Water!
Water Rights and Water Wars: Changes in Water Rights in the United States
Denise V. Cheney, Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP
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Liquid Real Estate Coast-to-Coast – Wet & Wild
Neil C. Johnston, Hand Arendall LLC
TAB 2
Riparian Water Boundaries Titles and Rights
Robert S. Bozarth, Fidelity National Title Insurance Company
TAB 3
So You Want to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge?
There is a Way – By Using Public-Private Partnerships and Concession Agreements
Public-Private Partnerships: The United States Experience Lessons and Best Practices
Gregory W. Hummel, Bryan Cave LLP
TAB 4
Concession Agreements: Critical Provisions that Require Higher Levels
of Consideration
Greg S. Gilbert, Holland & Hart, LLP
TAB 5
Deep Surgery:
Uncovering Complex Issues in Construction Contracts
“Cover Me”: Owner’s Requirements for Additional Insured Status on
TAB 6
Contractor’s General Liability Policies and Professional Liability Insurance
Steven G.M. Stein, Stein Ray LLP
The Law of Mechanics’ Liens in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts
and New York
Sarah B. Biser and John P. Martin, McCarter & English, LLP
TAB 7
Delay Risks and Management Tools – A Framework for Drafting and
Negotiating Liquidated Damages Clauses
Jeffrey R. Appelbaum, Thompson Hine LLP
TAB 8
If You Build It [to Suit], These Issues Will Come:
Challenging Issues in Build-to-Suit Lease Transactions
Build-to-Suit Leases
“Security,” Contingencies, Rights and Remedies in the Event of Delay,
Shifting the Risk, Warranties, and Other “Special Considerations” Avoid the Pitfalls
Michael E. Rothpletz, Jr., Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
TAB 9
Build-to-Suit Leases
Pre-Construction and Construction Issues
Loretta M. Kelly, Equus Capital Partners, Ltd.
TAB 10
Whose Lease Is It Anyway?
The Lender’s Role in the Build-to-Suit Lease
Martin F. Dowd, McCarter & English, LLP
TAB 11
Keep the Mezzanine Lenders Close and the Preferred Equity Closer:
Senior Lenders’ Analysis of Mezzanine Loans and Preferred Equity
Mezzanine Loans: The Lesser of Two Evils?
William G. Rothschild, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
TAB 12
Are Mezzanine Loans Really the Lesser of Two Evils?
What Do (or Should) Senior Lenders Think About Preferred
Equity Transactions?
Marianne Ajemian, Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP
TAB 13
SATURDAY PROGRAM PAPERS
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party:
Risk, Returns, and Real Estate Finance Terminology
Real Estate Metrics: Numbers Never Lie or Do They?
What are the Important Real Estate Metrics and Why Do They Matter?
Thomas F. Kaufman, Goulston & Storrs PC
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TAB 14
Lawyers Without Borders?
Keeping the UPL Out of Your MJP
Lawyers Without Borders? Keeping the UPL Out of the MJP
William B. Dunn, Clark Hill PLC
TAB 15
What You Need to Know About Handling Real Estate Transactions
In Other States (Ethical and Practical Issues in Multijurisdictional
Real Estate Practices)
Janet M. Johnson, Schiff Hardin LLP
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