Agenda  
Day 2 - January 18

8:00 am
Registration, Networking & Continental Breakfast

8:20 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks

Conference Chairmen: John Luna, President, Property Condition Assessments, LLC
                                     Thomas Clark, CIO, Property Condition Assessments, LLC

8:30 am
Condo Conversions – Is the Party Over?

• How to insure
• Contending with union opposition
• Impact on rents
• Facilitating mortgages
• Wrap insurance coverage
• Fostering positive community relations
• Cities contributing to improvements
• Moving entitlement process along
• Developer impact fees
     o Affordable housing
     o Zoning
     o Residential infill

Moderator: Richard Tullo, Special Situations Analyst, The Wall Street Transcript

Panelists:  Joseph Fleishaker, President, Koleman Real Estate
                 Brian Baniqued, Broker/Owner, Baniqued Realtors
                 Daniel Flynn, VP - Land Acquisition, John Laing Homes
                 David Drummond, SVP, Colliers Seeley International

9:15 am
Legal Due Diligence 

Better understand how to structure transactions and avoid legal entanglements. Topics include:

• Multiple asset portfolios – sampling methods
• Analysis of buyer’s accounting
• Pre- and post-contract issues
• Representations and warranties
• Reconciling exclusions with state law
• Legal forms of ownership
• Title insurance 
• ADA problems
• Litigation
• Liens

Speaker: Michael G. Smooke, Partner, Fulbright & Jaworksi, L.L.P.

Title Insurance Considerations in the Purchase and Sale of Commercial Real Estate

• Indemnity coverage 
• Duty to defend
• Risk-elimination
• Searches for titles and liens
• Structuring conveyance and financings to minimize transaction expense
• Handling escrow as well as transfer and mortgage taxes
• Special coverages - extended coverages, zoning, comprehensive endorsements

Speaker: Bruce E. Hawley, Senior Vice President, Senior Underwriting Counsel & Manager, 
                         Stewart Title Guaranty Company

10:15 am
Networking Break

10:30 am
Leasing: Managing Inherited Contractual Obligations and Relationships

• Responsibility for existing contracts
• Transferability of municipal benefits to/from buyer/seller
• Zoning and other restrictions that run with the property
• Other appurtenances attached to sale of property (e.g. air rights)
• Tenant leases and ongoing relations
• Transfer restrictions • Eroding tax abatements
• Landlord obligations • Base year anomalies

Moderator: Lewis Burleigh, Partner, Dechert LLP

Panelists: Matthew D. Belshin, Partner, SENTRE Partners
                 Lauri Greenblatt, President, Promus Management
                 Stanley Iezman, President and CEO, American Realty Advisors

11:15 am
Due Diligence Techniques for Specific Asset Classes

Learn best practices for conducting asset-class specific due diligence.

Moderator: David Wanetick, Managing Director, The Wall Street Transcript

Panelists: Ryan McClean, First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. (Industrial Due Diligence)
                Steven A. Weilbach, Pacific Property Company (Multi-Family Due Diligence)
                Brigitta Troy, Vice-President – Acquisitions, Arden Realty, Inc. (Office Due Diligence)

12:00 pm
Adjournment

*agenda subject to change