Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with approximately 1800 attorneys serving clients from more than 30 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.  In 2010, the GT Real Estate team received the Chambers USA Award for Excellence.  Our New York real estate team, one of the largest in New York City and the country, consists of 43 lawyers dealing with all aspects of real estate law including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, finance, hospitality, land use, commercial and residential condominium developments, commercial leasing and cross-border transactions.  Our clients are private equity funds, financial institutions, REITS, developers and owner operators who are leaders in their fields in New York, the nation and the world.  With our firm so deeply involved in the real estate world, our colleagues in the tax, corporate, securities, litigation and creditors' rights areas are experts in understanding all of the issues that are unique to real estate matters.  We work with those experts daily to deliver  integrated and cost-effective legal solutions  for our client.


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J.P. Morgan Private Equity & Real Estate Services

J.P. Morgan Private Equity & Real Estate Services is a market leading provider of outsourced private equity, real estate and infrastructure solutions for real estate fund sponsors and institutional investors.   The real estate fund administration offering combines the firm's award-winning private equity and infrastructure fund and alternative asset portfolio administration capabilities with services uniquely designed for the real estate asset class. Services for real estate fund sponsors include: fund and partnership accounting, property consolidation, financial reporting to support REIT testing, waterfall administration, tax and investor relations support, document management and online investor portals. J.P Morgan's clients can combine these fund administration services with products for cash management, custody, foreign exchange and a variety of other bank services.

J.P. Morgan provides top-rated fund administration services to more than 140 clients with $270 billion in alternative assets under administration. It has offices in New York, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Luxembourg, the Channel Islands, Bermuda and Sydney. J.P. Morgan's Private Equity & Real Estate Services apply to fund structures of all strategies, including: real estate, infrastructure, distressed debt, buy-out, growth, venture, mezzanine and fund of funds.

In 2010, J.P. Morgan was named “Best in Class” Private Equity Fund Administrator by Global Custodian Survey, recognizing the firm’s ability to survive turbulent financial and economic conditions while delivering valuable solutions to the industry.

For more information on J.P. Morgan's private equity fund services group, please visit www.jpmorgan.com/visit/pere


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CB Richard Ellis Group

CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm (in terms of 2009 revenue). The company has approximately 29,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through more than 300 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting.


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Ernst & Young

Today’s real estate industry must adopt new approaches to address regulatory requirements and financial risks – while meeting the challenges of expanding in the US and globally and achieving sustainable growth. Ernst & Young, a global leader in providing assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, has the largest integrated real estate practice of any accounting organization. Our 5,000 professionals around the world provide audit, tax, transaction advisory, and real estate advisory services to real estate owners, investors, lenders, and users – including many private equity firms, REITs, homebuilders, and developers -- to help you meet your goals and compete more effectively.

Our transactions professionals assist clients by providing property and loan level analyses and advisory in order to assess risks and opportunities relating to transactions involving acquisitions, originations, dispositions and restructuring.  Our clients include investors and lenders and our services focus on single assets, portfolios and/or real estate and hospitality related companies.  We work closely with each client to develop a project specific approach which can include performing property site inspections, market studies, cash flow modeling, review of third-party reports, lease abstracting, rent roll analysis, operating expense benchmarking, as well as loan underwriting services for lenders.

Our approach combines entrepreneurial thinking and a working knowledge of real estate issues with broad real estate experience, vast resources, and diverse network of clients and local market contacts. We work to anticipate market trends, identify the implications and develop points of view on relevant industry issues. Ernst & Young serves more than 4,000 real estate clients throughout the world. For more about Ernst & Young’s Global Real Estate Center log on to www.ey.com/realestate or contact Mike Syers, Partner at 212-773-7116.


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Newbanks
For over fifty years, Newbanks has been protecting the interests of real estate investing and lending institutions throughout the country. With our experience through market peaks and downturns in the cyclical real estate industry, Newbanks is considered a vital component in the underwriting process for the financing of existing buildings, as well as proposed developments and projects in workout. With over five billion dollars of volume under construction in our portfolio at any given time, we have an updated database of current hard cost trends nationwide with which we use to determine the adequacy of projects being proposed. Our staff includes seasoned LEED architects, engineers, construction managers and former developers who provide detailed physical needs assessments, upfront plan and cost reviews, and construction monitoring through the course of a project to ensure that the intended asset is completed as originally underwritten. In addition, Newbanks’ affiliated companies offer owner’s representative services for equity participants/mezzanine lenders, in addition to full-scale construction management oversight for bank-owned partially completed projects. Our customers include public-owned REITs, domestic and foreign lenders, insurance companies, pension funds, tax credit investors, HUD, public housing authorities, private equity and hedge funds.
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MVision
MVision is widely recognized as the world’s leading independent international alternative assets advisory and placement firm, focusing on Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Real Assets, Credit and direct transactions, in both the developed and emerging markets.

At MVision we raise capital for and advise on a wide variety of alternative assets funds and investment strategies, including direct transactions and managed accounts, leveraging all our resources for each of our clients.

We execute as one team - an industry-leading group of 50 professionals operating out of offices in London, New York and an associated consultancy office in Hong Kong, covering established and new institutional investors in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and other markets.

MVision has established a reputation for delivering the highest levels of strategic advice, private placement skills and professionalism, routinely exceeding the most demanding expectations of its clients worldwide.

MVision’s worldwide client base is composed of current and future market leaders in the major and emerging economies globally, with whom we work on a long term basis. The company’s goal, based on the belief that fundraising is far more than a one-time event, is to assist its clients with the ongoing task of funding and growing their businesses whilst effectively managing the issues associated with expansion - interaction, positioning, growth and success.

MVision is committed to ensuring rapid and successful fundraising for its clients with the least possible disruption to their ongoing business. It has never been more important that General Partners should remain free throughout the process to concentrate on investment and portfolio management.

Our familiarity with the requirements of investors is an important advantage that enables us to roll out meticulous plans for focused marketing and to produce the optimum investor base for our clients.
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First American Title Insurance Company

First American Title Insurance Company is one of the leading title insurers in the state and a wholly owned subsidiary of First American Title Insurance Company, one of the largest title insurers in the nation. With a rich history dating back to 1889, First American Title Insurance Company is the largest subsidiary of The First American Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a FORTUNE 500® company that currently ranks as the nation's leading provider of business information.

First American Title offers expert handling of any real estate transaction—from the simplest single-property transaction to the most complicated multi-property/multi-state transaction— bringing personalized service to every client and every situation.  Our experienced underwriting teams have authority nationally; and our single-point-of-contact service provides a creative, competent, and client-focused approach that can aid in timely closings and reduced transaction costs.

A driving force behind the company's success is its in-depth knowledge of the marketplace, combined with the dedication and experience of its talented team of professionals and industry-leading technology.  Through our Eagle Pro Web-based title data delivery system, we are able to provide 24-hour real-time access to all transaction information, including title commitments, preliminary reports, proforma title policies, exception documents, property maps, and more.

In addition to title insurance, First American offers a variety of complementary products and services, including Eagle 9 UCC Insurance, settlement and escrow services, 1031 tax-deferred exchange services, and title insurance on cooperative apartments.   First American also offers title insurance protection around the globe, in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and beyond.

First American Title Insurance Company—your single point of contact for all of your title insurance needs


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